Rolul corpului în cogniție – aplicații în sport și pregătirea militară
Facultatea de Educație Fizică Și Sport Academia Tehnică Militară; Facultatea de Psihologie Și Științele Educației Științe Cognitive În Limba Engleză, Daria Ștefania Mihalcea
Gândirea militară românească December 21, 2025 DOI: 10.55535/gmr.2025.3.11 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that the body is an essential tool for gaining information about the external world and that bodily experience shapes perception and action, as illustrated through examples from sport and military contexts. This position is framed within embodied cognition and 4E Cognition theory and presented in opposition to Descartes' mind-body dualism and to computationalist cognitive psychology. |
Abstract
This essay proposes the idea that an individual’s body has an undeniable role in the understanding of the concrete world. Embodied cognition is an approach to cognition that puts emphasis on locomotion, is one of the most important ways an organism receives sensory signals about the environment. 4E Cognition theory has as a core idea the fact that our mind isn’t limited to the brain, but it expands throughout the whole body and also in the environment. This view came in opposition to Descartes’ ideology that supports the existence of the mind without a body. Furthermore, 4E Cognition critiques traditional cognitive psychology, which is strongly influenced by computationalism, which classifies the mind as an abstract information processor and places minimal importance on the mind’s connection to the outside world. This paper argues that the body is an essential tool that provides information about the external world and influences cognition. This idea connects to the way an athlete or a soldier perceives and proccesses information through the body’s motion, therefore the study explores how bodily experience shapes perception and action by making use of the comprehensive framework provided by the embodied cognition theory and by providing representative examples from sport and military contexts.