Embodied Cognition: A field guide

Michael L. Anderson
2003 Artificial Intelligence  
The nature of cognition is being re-considered. Instead of emphasizing formal operations on abstract symbols, the new approach foregrounds the fact that cognition is, rather, a situated activity, and suggests that thinking beings ought therefore be considered first and foremost as acting beings. The essay reviews recent work in Embodied Cognition, provides a concise guide to its principles, attitudes and goals, and identifies the physical grounding project as its central research focus.
doi:10.1016/s0004-3702(03)00054-7 fatcat:oilmr3n64jgzfj6rslzqp3ufki