Is a field theory of perseverative reaching compatible with a Piagetian view?

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-53
Author(s):  
Lorraine McCune
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Mental Representation ◽  
Theoretical Position ◽  
The Relationship

This commentary is a brief reflection on the relationship between the embodied cognition analysis and a Piagetian theoretical position. In particular, the place of A-not-B in the larger Piagetian framework and the importance of the concept of mental representation, in contrast with perceptual understanding, are noted.

Exploring the Boundaries of the Number–Temporal Order Association

2015 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Ganor-Stern
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Mental Representation ◽  
Temporal Order ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Numerical Comparison ◽  
Negative Number ◽  
Comparison Task ◽  
Negative Numbers ◽  
The Past

Past research has shown that numbers are associated with order in time such that performance in a numerical comparison task is enhanced when number pairs appear in ascending order, when the larger number follows the smaller one. This was found in the past for the integers 1–9 ( Ben-Meir, Ganor-Stern, & Tzelgov, 2013 ; Müller & Schwarz, 2008 ). In the present study we explored whether the advantage for processing numbers in ascending order exists also for fractions and negative numbers. The results demonstrate this advantage for fraction pairs and for integer-fraction pairs. However, the opposite advantage for descending order was found for negative numbers and for positive-negative number pairs. These findings are interpreted in the context of embodied cognition approaches and current theories on the mental representation of fractions and negative numbers.

The Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Mental Representation ◽  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Numeral Classifiers ◽  
Number Marking ◽  
The Core ◽  
Grammatical Number ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Linguistic Means

This volume offers an overview of current research on grammatical number in language. The chapters Part i of the handbook present foundational notions in the study of grammatical number covering the semantic analyses of plurality, the mass–count distinction, the relationship between number and quantity expressions and the mental representation of number and individuation. The core instance of grammatical number is marking for number distinctions in nominal expressions as in English the book/the books and the chapters in Part ii, Number in the nominal domain, explore morphological, semantic, and syntactic aspects of number marking within noun phrases. The contributions examine morphological marking of number the relationship between syntax and nominal number marking, and the interactions between numeral classifiers with semantic number and number marking. They also address cases of mismatches in form and meaning with respect to number displayed by lexical plurals and collective nouns. The final chapter reviews nominal number processing from the perspective of language pathologies. While number marking on nouns has been the focus of most research on number, number distinctions can also be found in the event domain. Part iii, Number in the event domain, presents an overview of different linguistic means of expressing plurality in the event domain, covering verbal plurality marking, pluractional modifiers of the form Noun preposition Noun, frequency adjectives and dependent indefinites. Part iv provides fifteen case studies examining different aspects of grammatical number marking in a range of typologically diverse languages.

scholarly journals Subjective Likelihood and the Construal Level of Future Events: A Replication Study of Wakslak, Trope, Liberman, and Alony (2006)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofia Calderon ◽  
Erik Mac Giolla ◽  
Karl Ask ◽  
Pär Anders Granhag
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representation ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Construal Level ◽  
Bayesian Analyses ◽  
Previous Conclusion ◽  
Strong Trend ◽  
Future Events ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Diagnostic Support

C. J. Wakslak, Y. Trope, N. Liberman, and R. Alony (2006), Seeing the forest when entry is unlikely: Probability and the mental representation of events, Journal of experimental psychology: General, examined the effect of manipulating the likelihood of future events on level of construal (i.e., mental abstraction). Over seven experiments, they consistently found that subjectively unlikely (vs. likely) future events were more abstractly (vs. concretely) construed. This well-cited, but understudied finding has had a major influence on the CLT literature: Likelihood is considered to be one of four psychological distances assumed to influence mental abstraction in similar ways (Trope & Liberman, 2010). Contrary to the original empirical findings, we present two close replication attempts (N = 115 and N = 120; the original studies had N = 20 and N = 34) which failed to find the effect of likelihood on construal level. Bayesian analyses provided diagnostic support for the absence of an effect. In light of the failed replications, we present a meta-analytic summary of the accumulated evidence on the effect. It suggests a strong trend of declining effect sizes as a function of larger samples. These results call into question the previous conclusion that likelihood has a reliable influence on construal level. We discuss the implications of these findings for construal level theory, and advise against treating likelihood as a psychological distance until further tests have established the relationship.

scholarly journals Field and Circuit Models for the Wound Foil Inductor

1976 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-102
Author(s):  
P. N. Murgatroyd
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Electromagnetic Field ◽  
Transmission Line ◽  
Field Analysis ◽  
Distributed Parameter ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Lumped Model ◽  
Electromagnetic Field Theory ◽  
Lumped Equivalent Circuit ◽  
The Relationship

The Wound Foil Inductor is an important example of inductive components with appreciable internal capacitance. It is examined from three viewpoints – electromagnetic field theory, distributed-parameter (or transmission-line), and lumped equivalent circuit. The analyses are compared, particularly in terms of phase gradients within a component, and the relationship between a two-dimensional field analysis and the now established lumped model is derived.

scholarly journals Reflecting in/on field theory in practice

Tempo Social ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-217
Author(s):  
Michael Grenfell
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Theory Of Practice ◽  
Social Theorist ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Subject And Object ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Object Reference

The article discuses the dimension of reflexivity within the work of the social theorist Pierre Bourdieu. It alludes to the provenance of Bourdieu’s theory of practice and the epistemology, which underpins it. Language is a key element in reflexivity, the article therefore outline’s Bourdieu approach to language and the significance it holds in the development of his key concepts, as well as the relationship between subject and object. Reference is made to the works of Habermas, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and others to offer a ground base in just what Bourdieusian reflexivity is and how it operates in practice. Phases and stages in methodology are referred to as well as how reflexivity should operate within them. Finally, the significance of the discussion is underlined with reference to consequent outcomes.

Improvisation, Action Understanding, and Music Cognition with and without Bodies

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijay Iyer
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Mirror Neurons ◽  
Music Cognition ◽  
Action Understanding ◽  
Human Actions ◽  
Recorded Music ◽  
Evolution Of Music ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

A posited definition of improvisation encompasses such a broad range of human actions that it is helpful to consider both improvisation and rhythm in terms of embodied cognition and a notion of bodily empathy. This suggests a possible (though unstable and inconclusive) connection to action understanding, empathy, and mirror neurons, while acknowledging the latter’s disputed status. With or without mirror neurons, the concept of action understanding offers a reconsideration of improvisation and music cognition with or without bodies (i.e., live or recorded). The relationship of improvisation, rhythm, and embodiment to contemporary theories of expectation, speech, and the evolution of music are considered. Action understanding is posited as the foundation of both music cognition and the perception of improvisation, marking both processes as inherently intersubjective, even whether the other’s body is absent or fantasized (as is the case with recorded music).

scholarly journals Thinking embodiment with genetics: epigenetics and postgenomic biology in embodied cognition and enactivism

Synthese ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Meloni ◽  
Jack Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
The Body ◽  
Precise Nature ◽  
Andy Clark ◽  
4E Cognition ◽  
Genomic Biology ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Epigenetic Research

AbstractThe role of the body in cognition is acknowledged across a variety of disciplines, even if the precise nature and scope of that contribution remain contentious. As a result, most philosophers working on embodiment—e.g. those in embodied cognition, enactivism, and ‘4e’ cognition—interact with the life sciences as part of their interdisciplinary agenda. Despite this, a detailed engagement with emerging findings in epigenetics and post-genomic biology has been missing from proponents of this embodied turn. Surveying this research provides an opportunity to rethink the relationship between embodiment and genetics, and we argue that the balance of current epigenetic research favours the extension of an enactivist approach to mind and life, rather than the extended functionalist view of embodied cognition associated with Andy Clark and Mike Wheeler, which is more substrate neutral.

scholarly journals Embodied cognition: dimensions, domains and applications

2020 ◽  
pp. 105971232091296
Author(s):  
Mirko Farina
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Empirical Content ◽  
Review Section ◽  
Cognitive Behaviour ◽  
Fruitful Research ◽  
The Relationship

This article is intended as a response to Goldinger et al. and to all those, an increasing minority in the sciences, who still belittle the contribution of embodied cognition to our understanding of human cognitive behaviour. In this article (section 1), I introduce the notion of embodiment and explain its dimensions and reach. I review (section 2) a range of embodied cognition theories and highlight the principles and criteria on which they rely or draw from. I focus (section 3) on three crucial empirical domains in which an embodied perspective has driven novel insights about the relationship between mind and cognition. I argue that embodiment is not just a philosophical mantra empty of empirical content. I draw attention (section 4) to some of the recent ways in which principles underlying embodied cognition have begun to be applied in different fields (contemporary psychology). I review some of these interventions and suggest that discussing these applications not only provides additional evidence against any poverty claim but can also help moving the field forward in important ways. Contra Goldinger et al., I therefore conclude (section 5) that embodied cognition is a very fruitful research programme for the empirical sciences and that can adequately explain many aspects of human cognitive behaviour.

scholarly journals Finite spatial volume approach to finite temperature field theory

1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (8) ◽  
pp. 967-973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Finite Temperature ◽  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Relativistic Quantum ◽  
Free Field ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Zero Temperature ◽  
Relativistic Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Spatial Volume ◽  
The Relationship

A relativistic quantum field theory at finite temperature T = β−1 is equivalent to the same field theory at zero temperature but with one spatial dimension of finite length β. This equivalence is discussed for scalars, for fermions, and for gauge theories. The relationship is checked for free field theory. The translation of correlation functions between the two formulations is described with special emphasis on the nonlocal order parameters of gauge theories. Possible applications are mentioned.

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