I recently conducted the following interview with Dr. Andrew Wilson and Dr. Sabrina Golonka, authors of the popular blog PyschScienceNotes, about embodied cognition. I reached out to them to offer ...

Athletic footwear has entered a new era of ambition. No longer content to promise just comfort or performance, Nike claims its shoes can activate the brain, heighten sensory awareness and even improve ...

Clinical psychology has long recognized that psychological distress and therapeutic change involve more than cognitive processes alone. Emotion regulation, ...

The human body has historically been viewed as a natural, purely biological entity that is mostly separate from the mind. However, much work in embodied cognition has revealed the significant extent ...

But the most meaningful “mind-altering” effects a person can experience through physical fitness still come from sustained movement, training, sleep and attention – not from sensation alone. Footwear ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/crip19024.4 After having fallen out of favor, pragmatism is resurging. This is especially so in cognitive science and value ...

We humans excel at generalization. If you taught a toddler to identify the color red by showing her a red ball, a red truck and a red rose, she will most likely correctly identify the color of a ...

Walking, what could be more natural? Whether you're walking with a light heart or a preoccupied mind, connected to your phone or your environment, pursuing a goal or, as a flaneur, erring on the side ...

Embodied cognition is the latest sexy topic in cognitive science. There is, however, a great deal of confusion about exactly what it means and how to study it. A lot of studies have hit the headlines ...