Stands for the research program attempting to understand cognition in close association with the sensory and motor processes through which cognition manifests itself and the neural structures on which cognition is based. Embodied cognition also includes the notion of ‘situatedness’, which postulates that cognition takes place in contexts provided by highly structured and specific environments, and by an individual’s behavioural history. One of the foremost proponents of this theory is George Lakoff with his concept of the embodied mind in which he argues that almost all of human cognition depends on and makes use of low-level abilities provided by sensorimotor systems and emotions. Similar ideas were expressed by the physicist David Bohm (1917-1992) with his concept of implicate order.
See Cognition, Cognitive development, Cognitive psychology, Context (cultural), Embodiment, Implicate order, Mind-body problem