An embodied approach to understanding: Making sense of the world through simulated bodily activity
Frontiers in Psychology December 22, 2016 Firat Soylu
Even though understanding is a very widely used concept, both colloquially and in scholarly work, its definition is nebulous and it is not well-studied as a psychological construct, compared to other psychological constructs like learning and memory. It is hard to study understanding based on third-person behavioral data or neural data alone. Understanding refers to a first-person experience of...