{"id":3663,"date":"2018-08-15T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2018-07-29T08:37:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T13:37:51","slug":"resources-get-started-embodied-cognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/resources-get-started-embodied-cognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources to Get Started with &#8220;Embodied Cognition&#8221;:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The field of <strong>embodied cognition<\/strong> has gotten increasing attention in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The short version is: because our brains are attached to our bodies &#8212; in fact, <em>our brains are a part of our bodies<\/em> &#8212; bodies can help brains learn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/AdobeStock_45156048_Credit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3664\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/AdobeStock_45156048_Credit-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"embodied cognition\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/AdobeStock_45156048_Credit-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/AdobeStock_45156048_Credit-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/AdobeStock_45156048_Credit-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/AdobeStock_45156048_Credit-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The right kind of gesture, for example, can increase math learning.<\/p>\n<h2>Recent Reseach<\/h2>\n<p>Susan Goldin-Meadow has written thoughtfully about the importance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3093190\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gestures<\/a> for learning.<\/p>\n<p>Frederic Vallee-Tourangeau has shown how that the use of physical objects can lead students to <a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/17-ways-to-fold-sheep\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flashes of insight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sian Beilock&#8211;one of my favorite researchers&#8211;has written an introductory book called\u00a0<em>How the Body Knows Its Mind<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, the Learning Scientists have put together a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningscientists.org\/blog\/2018\/7\/22\/weekly-digest-118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collection of helpful resources<\/a> to investigate this topic.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for new ways to help your students learn, you&#8217;ll find lots to love there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The field of embodied cognition has gotten increasing attention in recent years. The short version is: because our brains are attached to our bodies &#8212; in fact, our brains are a part of our bodies &#8212; bodies can help brains learn. The right kind of gesture, for example, can increase math learning. Recent Reseach Susan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-3663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-embodied-cognition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3668,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions\/3668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}