Toward an embodiment-disembodiment taxonomy

Cogn Process. 2012 Aug:13 Suppl 1:S347-50. doi: 10.1007/s10339-012-0495-3.

Abstract

Psychological, neuroscientific, and linguistic evidence suggests that a mental scene is in principle cognized with a mental gaze that can take on one of three forms: embodied physical gaze, embodied mental gaze, or disembodied mental gaze. Combinations of these forms also occur. A first sketch of the embodiment-disembodiment taxonomy that emerges from this threefold distinction is presented.

MeSH terms

  • Classification*
  • Cognition / physiology*
  • Fixation, Ocular
  • Humans
  • Linguistics
  • Memory, Episodic*