- There's a debate between cognitivism and embodied cognitivism around whether our brain uses amodal or modal symbols. - Cognitivists believe that the neural activity we have in our brain are just symbols that represent a particular thought. They don't believe that there is an intrinsic connection between the content of the mind and the neurons themselves. - In [[Glenberg Experiment showing Embodied Cognition]] he tries to prove that our brain doesn't have amodal symbols and that the parts of the brain comprehending the words are connected to the ones performing the action. - In [[Mindstorms]] Papert also talks about how his play/work with gears as a child helped him significantly understand topics in mathematics. ---- |Shapiro, Lawrence, and Steven A. Stolz. "Embodied cognition and its significance for education." _Theory and Research in Education_ 17.1 (2019): 19-39. ||APA|| - [[Embodied Cognition and its Significance for Education]]