CGSC 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Embodied Cognitive Science, Embodied Cognition, Shrdlu

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: CGSC 2001
• Professor: Katarzyna Muldner

Document Summary

There are two common models of emotion: discrete vs. dimensional. There are four components to emotion: physiological, behavioural, experiential, and cognitive. Emotion and memory, emotion and decision-making are examples of how emotions impact cognition. Embodiment theory of emotion: two key aspects: Simulation: perceiving emotion in others or thinking about emotions both involve re-experiencing that emotion by simulating it ourselves. Impact of bodily expression: our bodily expressions of emotionally-related behaviours impacts how we feel and our physiology. Posture tests, smiling/frowning and cartoons, nodding/shaking heads and pen preference, and power poses: advantages: simple survival (disgust study), empathy (partner study), performance (power poses) The idea that emotion is embodied suggests that our bodies play an integral role in emotional expression. The notion of embodiment also extends to models of purely-cognitive processing: embodied cognitive science. Central claim is that cognition is computation: computation = the manipulation of representations (be they symbolic or subsymbolic) Construes cognition as an iterative sense-think-act cycle: ex.