Dr Valérie Bonnardel presented and discussed chapter 8 of the book, entitled “Enaction: Embodied Cognition”. After a brief presentation of cognitivism and its impact in cognitive psychology syllabi as they are typically taught in universities today, the lecture presented the chapter itself. Given the limitations of cognitive realism in providing a satisfactory understanding of human behaviour (and its failure to account for human experience), concepts of embodied cognition, enaction, and structural coupling are proposed to address these limitations. This alternative theoretical framework is illustrated in the domain of colour perception where a more sensible conceptualisation of the colour phenomenon is made possible through cognition considered as embodied action.

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