Seminar 02.23.2017
1. Solid article on embodied cognition, reviewing perspectives and research available in 2013.
Author: Foglia, Lucia, and Robert A. Wilson. "Embodied Cognition." Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, vol. 4, no. 3, 2013, pp. 319-325doi:10.1002/wcs.1226.
2. Excerpt from book chapter on enactivism, skill, and flow (page 112-18).
Author: Jackman, Christopher. "Training, Insight and Intuition in Creative Flow." Theatre, Performance and Cognition: Languages, Bodies and Ecologies, edited by Rhonda Blair and Amy Cook, Bloomsbury Methuen, 2016, pp. 107-121
3. Accessible Dynamical Systems Based article on embodied language and adaptable/manipulable language-movement connections
Author: Hansen, Pil. “The Adaptability of Language-Motor Connections in Dance and Acting: A Coordination Dynamics Experiment.” MAPA D2 Danca Digital, vol 4, June 2016, pp. 82-92.
Topic: Embodied cognition
This week seminar is about embodiment and cognition. We were introduced what is embodiment and how it affect humans perception in different scales such as adaptability of language, cultivating flow through mindful practices.
Key notes from the seminar:
- Main raised topics were growth, adaptability, embodiment.
- Embodiment shifting from the static space to the responsive moving and adaptable.
- The main inspiration for this concept is Philip Besley and his installation in Venice Biennale.
- ‘Role of the primary motor cortex (and/or regions adjacent to it) in the perception of both movement and action words, which can infer hypotheses about audience reception. Rodrigue’s findings open up the possibility of using semantic-motor terms that are connected to and affect movement as the third medium of choreographic reflection.
- Computationalism: the body is nothing related to the mind.
- Cognition can exist in a machine.
- Embodied cognition: emphasize the role of sensory and motor functions of cognitions itself.
- No fracture between cognition, agent’s body, and real-life contexts: consequently the body intrinsically constrains, regulates and shapes the nature of mental activity.
- Cognition is shaped by bodily experience. What we can perceive. What we perceive before. What I can do.
- Our body gives you very specific constraints of what/how you can perceive the world, and what you can do.
- Flow: a combination of skill. They have control/ enough challenge of new and known.
- Disfunction: take people out of the flow.
- How can it behave differently from our expectations?
- Self-generating grammar - grammar in process
- Conduct the mindfulness. What state do you want people to be? - The atmosphere is affected by yourself in the space.
- Connected + curiosity well-being. Save place and challenge. Something you are immersed in.
- Hermeneutics: we look through the world through technology, is what makes it accessible to you.