id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1350 Embodied cognition - Wikipedia .html text/html 10697 1418 57 Neuroscientists Gerald Edelman, António Damásio and others have outlined the connection between the body, individual structures in the brain and aspects of the mind such as consciousness, emotion, self-awareness and will.[20] Biology has also inspired Gregory Bateson, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Eleanor Rosch and Evan Thompson to develop a closely related version of the idea, which they call enactivism.[21] The motor theory of speech perception proposed by Alvin Liberman and colleagues at the Haskins Laboratories argues that the identification of words is embodied in perception of the bodily movements by which spoken words are made.[22][23][24][25][26] Despite mixed results regarding the researchers' expectations, they maintain that the motor system is important in processing higher level representations such as the action goal.[43] In this study, participants showed strong approach effects in the "positive toward condition," which supports embodied cognition.[43] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1350.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1350.txt