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| Title |
Embodied understanding
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, June 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00875 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Mark Johnson |
| Abstract |
Western culture has inherited a view of understanding as an intellectual cognitive operation of grasping of concepts and their relations. However, cognitive science research has shown that this received intellectualist conception is substantially out of touch with how humans actually make and experience meaning. The view emerging from the mind sciences recognizes that understanding is profoundly embodied, insofar as our conceptualization and reasoning recruit sensory, motor, and affective patterns and processes to structure our understanding of, and engagement with, our world. A psychologically realistic account of understanding must begin with the patterns of ongoing interaction between an organism and its physical and cultural environments and must include both our emotional responses to changes in our body and environment, and also the actions by which we continuously transform our experience. Consequently, embodied understanding is not merely a conceptual/propositional activity of thought, but rather constitutes our most basic way of being in, and engaging with, our surroundings in a deep visceral manner. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 21 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 6 | 29% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 10% |
| France | 1 | 5% |
| Guinea | 1 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| Spain | 1 | 5% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 8 | 38% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 17 | 81% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 10% |
| Scientists | 2 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 117 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 114 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 26 | 22% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 21 | 18% |
| Researcher | 10 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 6% |
| Lecturer | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 21 | 18% |
| Unknown | 26 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 25 | 21% |
| Arts and Humanities | 17 | 15% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 6% |
| Neuroscience | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 25 | 21% |
| Unknown | 28 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 80. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 April 2022.
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