Autori
Caruana, Fausto
Borghi, Anna M.

Titolo
Embodied Cognition: una nuova psicologia
Periodico
Giornale italiano di psicologia
Anno: 2013 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 23 - Pagina finale: 48

Embodied Cognition represents the most important news in cognitive psychologyin the last twenty years. The basis of its research program is the idea that cognitiveprocesses depend, mirror, and are influenced by bodily control systems. A wholeclass of novel perspectives has entered into the psychologists' agenda only after theemergence and success of the EC. In the paper we will deal with some of the maintopics debated within the EC, from the discussion on the role of representation, tothe relationship with enactivism, with functionalism and with the extended mind view.Against an interpretation according to which EC is simply an evolution of the classicalcognitivist program, we will focus on the aspects that highlight crucial discontinuitieswith it, suggesting instead that the EC perspective is indebted with previous theoreticaltraditions such as American pragmatism, ecological psychology and phenomenology. Inthe present paper we will discuss some of the most important achievements of EC indifferent areas of experimental research, from the study of affordances to that of thebodily experience, from the investigation on emotions to that on language. Our aimis to force the Italian public, particularly recalcitrant to EC, to critically reflect on thedebts to previous traditions.



SICI: 0390-5349(2013)1<23:ECUNP>2.0.ZU;2-H
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