Abstract
In recent years, embodied cognition has become a new approach in the field of cognitive psychology. The shift in cognitive psychology from a focus on the brain to a focus on the human body，just as from the disembodied cognition to the embodied cognition is valuable for many fields related to cognitive science including product design and its method. With Gibson’s theory of affordances, embodied cognition is a perfect explanation of today’s products guided by the idea of intuitive design and its logic. On the premise of embodied cognition, it is the “Mind-Body complex” that serves as the subject of behavior and interaction, the basis of “natural interaction” in Intelligent age, and the foundation for building a more complete theory of “user experience”. Based on the embodied cognitive, the method of design and its research should put more emphasis on specific tools.
Highlights
The new orientation of embodied cognition is not a groundless claim but the result of the philosophical reflection as well as the experimental evidence from the psychology and the neuroscience
Embodied cognition pays more attention to the material exchange between the brain and the body and the interaction between the Mind-Body complex and the environment of the here and. This view "makes it possible to clarify the relationship between the material exchange activities of body and brain, the Mind-Body complex and the external environment, the complex and past events, and encountered others etc."[10] The boundary between the Mind-Body complex and the objects is blurred
In her book Thoughtless Act? Observations on Intuitive Design which records a range of examples about thoughtless acts, she said “thoughtless acts are all those intuitive ways we adapt, exploit, and react to things in our environments”
Summary
The new orientation of embodied cognition is not a groundless claim but the result of the philosophical reflection as well as the experimental evidence from the psychology and the neuroscience. The James-Lange theory suggests that stimuli trigger activity in the autonomic nervous system and lead to physiological changes that cause changes in mood, such as crying leading to sadness and running away leading to fear[1] This theory shows the direct relationship between emotional changes and bodily changes and reveals the important role of body in emotions. In the 1990s, Rizzolatti and other researchers in the Neuroscience Center of the University of Parma in Italy discovered for the first time that there is a special type of neuron in the brains of monkeys This type of neuron can be activated when the monkey grabs an object or observes another individual performs in the same way. In 2015, Italian neurophysiologist, i.e., Vittorio Gallese and Leonardo Fogassi, put forward the embodied simulation theory based on the discovery of the mirror neurons and provides a scientific basis for the embodied cognition that transcends phenomena by effectively sharing others' gestures, meanings and intentions. 5The Metaphors We Live By, by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, suggests that metaphor is an important way of human cognition, and that embodied cognition helps humans understand concepts. 6Human language is the evidence of embodied cognition
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