@caranha @lana

Same here. So it's up to us to make this an interesting place, to bring in critical mass.

Have you ever run across this paper from Yulia Sandamirskaya and Tobias Storck, 2015:

"Learning to look and looking to remember: a neural-dynamic embodied model for generation of saccadic gaze shifts and memory formation" https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-09903-3_9

PDF: http://www.sandamirskaya.eu/resources/StorckSandamirskaya2014_book.pdf

#neuroscience #EmbodiedCognition #DynamicFieldTheory #robotics

New preprint with Rens van Hoef and Louise Connell

The effects of sensorimotor and linguistic information on the basic-level advantage.

Sensorimotor & linguistic distributional distance outperform discrete taxonomic levels.

https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7d8u6
#embodiedCognition #cognition #language

A recurring theme:

Do bad science, then tout the application of that bad science as a revolution in education.

"Embodied Cognition for Kids: Applying Principles of Embodiment to Education"
https://www.psychonomic.org/page/oneworld-glenberg

See also: #LearningStyles

#EmbodiedCognition

I will spend the time around new year in a remote montain hut in Italy without internet. I would like to use the quiet time to learn more about #embodiedcognition. Any suggestions for a book or podcast? #embodiment #cognition

If the mind isnt just bound to the brain, but extends through tools we're familiar with — hammers, calculators, cars being felt as extensions of the body — then smartphones and social media platforms could be seen likewise as part of our extended mind.

Losing part of your mind might feel uncomfortable. Growing a new part might feel unusual too. But both could also feel liberating.

I think I'm feeling a bit of all of these at the moment

#embodiedcognition @cognition @philosophy

Hi folks!

I make #electronics and write code and help people solve interesting problems. I wrote a book on #LEGO and Arduino projects. I made a lot of open source hardware electronics kits (see Wayne and Layne), worked with Dessa, and am currently nerding out over #ActiveInference, #EmbodiedCognition, and #CognitiveNeuroscience. I write a bunch of code over at Beeminder, helping folks achieve their goals.

I love to #dance, read, and spend time with my wife and my two kids.

@AndrewWatsonTTB tx. If what you're saying is that the theory of #EmbodiedCognition is beginning to *make impact on practice* - that's extremely interesting. As will be observing how its (mis)interpreted.

Does movement help students learn?

Specifically, do students learn more when THEY manipulate triangles than when their TEACHERS do so?

The field of #EmbodiedCognition is beginning to explore such questions.

Here's one example:

https://www.learningandthebrain.com/blog/does-movement-help-learning/

#EduMastodon #education #geometry #Math #Mathstadon #MBE

Working on #isls2023 papers today and quite excited about them. In one we are exploring how multiple collaborative #EmbodiedModels in sequence supported students’ explorations of #ecosystems. It’s really satisfying to see how different ways of moving 4 the same concept support different perspectives and synergy. Also we finally get to share our GEM-STEP work (https://embodiedplay.org/). #LearningSciences #EmbodiedCognition @learningsciences

One thing the “death of distance” prediction didn’t reckon with: humans learned to collaborate over millennia with actual bodies & objects in actual places.
Cognitive bias makes us think voice + a 2D face is equivalent (because language) but it’s nowhere close.
#EmbodiedCognition

It’s a little off-topic for the midterms, but I think we don’t talk about about *why* exactly fashionable “death of distance…
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1059546833838583813