English Theme 45 3.12--end

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English Theme 45 3.12--end

• Date July 3rd, 2007
• Room 8-405
• Instructor Mafuyu Kitahara
• Material Thelen, E. (1995) Time-scale dynamics
  and the development of an embodied cognition in
  R. Port and T. van Gelder (eds.) Mind as motion,
  Cambridge MIT Press

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3.12 From Action to Cognition

• action --gt learn categories --gt cognition
• e.g. toys able to be reached
• learned from appearing/disappearing tasks
• category formation potential well
• Rovee-Cillier (1991)
• 2mo old infants remember kicking task?
• Yes, even 1-2 week later
• Situation specific colour, design, crib...
• But, generalizable

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3.13 Toward a force embodiment

• Speculation
• generalize expand and overlap clouds

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Conclusion

• force interactions base of all cognition and
  language
• higher generalization mobileness...etc
• notions embedded and embodied