Science & the Big Questions

The Psychological and Social Importance of Postures During Worship

Postures and gestures have been selected by religions over time to promote the kinds of individual and collective feelings and attitudes that religions value.

Character & Context, Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Topics: Embodied Cognition Religious Groups Ritual

How the Brain and Body Work Together to Create Thinking

In Mind in Motion, Barbara Tversky reveals the many ways in which the interplay of the body and brain is necessary to enable cognition.

Undark

Topics: Cognition Embodied Cognition

The Geometry of Thought

A conversation with Barbara Tversky.

Edge

Topics: Cognition Embodied Cognition

Predictive Processing and the Nature of Conscious Experience

A conversation with Andy Clark.

Edge.org

Topics: Consciousness Embodied Cognition

The Replication Crisis Is Killing Psychologists’ Theory of How the Body Influences the Mind

The replication crisis has shown that some of the most famous findings that fall within embodied cognition simply don’t hold up.

Quartz

Topics: Cognition Embodied Cognition

What Would It Mean For AI to Have a Soul?

To ask whether it’s even possible, we first must understand and define what a soul actually is, argues Brandon Ambrosino.

BBC Future

Topics: Embodied Cognition Religiosity Robots Spirituality Technology

Breaking Down Virtual-Reality Walls May Boost Creativity

Researchers demonstrate how high-tech tools can be used to harness the power of metaphor.

Pacific Standard

Topics: Creativity Embodied Cognition Technology

Imagination Is Ancient

Our imaginative life today has access to the pre-linguistic, ancestral mind: rich in imagery, emotions, and associations.

Aeon

Topics: Cognition Creativity Embodied Cognition Imagination Language

The Next Big Leap in AI Could Come From Warehouse Robots

Kindred thinks the path to smarter software is by giving it a physical body.

The Verge

Topics: Embodied Cognition Intelligence Robots