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Is mediated embodiment the response to embodied cognition?

Laura Aymerich-Franch

preprint DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/krvqs (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Theoretical or philosophical paper
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Key points Argues that mediated embodiment technologies can help demonstrate the postulates of embodied cognition.

Abstract

Emerging technologies such as virtual reality and robots are evolving to increasingly integrate the user into the interface. During this temporary merge, users experience a digital or a robotic body of an avatar as their own. Embodied cognition sustains that the body and its interactions with the environment play an important role in cognition. I argue that the adoption of mediated embodiment technologies to explore cognitive development might substantially contribute to demonstrating the postulates of embodied cognition.