Posted in Embodied Cognition on Nov 28th, 2011
I know. It sounds extreme, doesn’t it? Sitting might cause cancer?!
That’s the announcement in a growing body of research. According to the American Institute for Cancer Research:
As many as 49,000 cases of breast cancer and 43,000 cases of colon cancer occurring in the U.S. every year are linked to a lack of physical [...]
Posted in Embodied Cognition on Jun 29th, 2010
This Boston Globe article from 2008 provides a nice summary about the field of embodied cognition, including some interesting research that proves we think with our whole bodies, not just our brains:
Posted in Embodied Cognition on Jun 29th, 2010
Enjoy this excerpt from Discover Magazine. The article describes six experiments that explore how the things we touch affect our judgments and decisions, and then discusses the following conclusions:
Posted in Embodied Cognition on Jun 29th, 2010
Enjoy today’s excerpt from Psychology Today’s bloggers Michele and Robert Root-Bernstein, about how we think with our bodies in pre-verbal, pre-symbolic ways.