Is mediated embodiment the response to embodied cognition?

Emerging technologies such as virtual reality and robots are evolving to increasingly integrate the user into the interface. During this temporary merge, users experience a digital or a robotic body of an avatar as their own. Embodied cognition sustains that the body and its interactions with the en...

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Author: Aymerich Franch, Laura
Format: article
Status:Versión aceptada para publicación
Publication Date:2018
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repository:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/37133
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/37133
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2018.02.003
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Mediated embodiment
Embodied cognition
Embodiment
Avatar
Virtual reality
Robots
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Summary:Emerging technologies such as virtual reality and robots are evolving to increasingly integrate the user into the interface. During this temporary merge, users experience a digital or a robotic body of an avatar as their own. Embodied cognition sustains that the body and its interactions with the environment play an important role in cognition. I argue that the adoption of mediated embodiment technologies to explore cognitive development might substantially contribute to demonstrating the postulates of embodied cognition.