Embodiment in Children's Choice: Linking Bodily Constraints With Decisional Dynamics

作者：Riviere James^*

来源：Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2014, 23(6): 408-413.

DOI：10.1177/0963721414548214

• action selection
• motor memory
• perception-action coupling

In the traditional framework of cognitive psychology, the brainviewed as a device for manipulating arbitrary symbolsremains the organ of decision making. However, the dimension of embodiment should not be ignored in investigations of decision-making processes in tasks involving a motor response. Experimental research in developmental psychology has shown that perceptual-motor constraints affect the explicit choices infants and toddlers make in some tasks. In these situations, the ability to make action choices that were previously thought to be highly abstract now appears to be attributable to an embodied-cognition approach. These developments concerning embodiment in children's choice, and their implication for our understanding of human voluntary action, form the subject of this article.

• 出版日期2014-12