- There's an interesting experiment conducted by Glenberg et.al in 2008 that gives evidence of embodied cognition. - In the experiment they asked subjects to move 600 beans from a wide mouthed to a narrow mouthed jar. They gave two different cases one where the wide mouthed was near and the narrow mouthed was far and the other vice versa. Following this they gave subjects some sentences (the sentences involved similar actions like "You deal Venkatesh the cards") that either made sense or nonsense. It was fascinating that subjects in each case processed the sentences at different speeds. This only makes sense from an embodied cognition perspective. - Glenberg explains this as how repeatedly performing the action might have fatigued or activated a certain part of the brain so when comprehending sentences it played a role. ----- |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]]