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Embodied Interaction -- an integrative approach| old_uid | 11439 |
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| title | Embodied Interaction -- an integrative approach |
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| start_date | 2012/05/25 |
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| schedule | 11h-13h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | In recent years, a number of so-called ‘interactionist’ approaches to social cognition research have emerged that highlight the importance of embodied and extended processes that are engaged in joint action and other forms of social interaction. According to some interactionists, these processes present an alternative to mindreading as a source of social understanding. I agree that it is important to take embodied interaction seriously but deny that this entails the marginalization of mindreading. In this talk, I draw upon an analogy between embodied interaction and the exercise of expert skills in articulating an integrative approach, the guiding assumption of which is that individual cognitive processes are likely to have been shaped by the need to exploit, coordinate and monitor embodied and extended responses engaged in joint action and other forms of interaction. Thus, investigation of such embodied and extended processes should inform rather than marginalize research on mindreading. In the talk, I will argue that such an approach makes better sense than marginalizing approaches when applied to a broad range of empirical evidence. It is also a fruitful source of fine-grained hypotheses about the relationship between lower- and higher-level processes in social cognition, as I will illustrate by reporting on two ongoing experiments designed on the basis of this theoretical approach. |
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| responsibles | Lesguillons |
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