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Embodied Underground

Event Start Date:
September 13, 2022
Event End Date:
September 13, 2022
Event Venue:
Online

Reading group on embodiment theory. Interested in joining us? Please email Dor (at) berkeley (dot) edu first so we can plan ahead.

This week’s reading for discussion:

McCollum, G. (2022). Sensorimotor underpinnings of mathematical imagination: Qualitative analysis [Original Research]. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.692602

Guest Speakers (See full list)

Kyle Peppler

Kyle Peppler

Materialized action: Reformulating the “Doing of” math through fiber crafting
Mads Dengsø

Mads Dengsø

Cognitive science and Cartesianism: Representational pull and methodological individualism
Claudia Núñez-Pacheco

Claudia Núñez-Pacheco

Searching for the words that “feel right”: Resonating with our bodies and felt senses through ...
Tania Zittoun

Tania Zittoun

The pleasure of thinking in human development
Steve Wilcox

Steve Wilcox

Hello, worlds: A ludic theory of cognition
Holger Diessel

Holger Diessel

Spatial communication systems and action
Kenny Coventry

Kenny Coventry

Spatial communication systems and action

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Making Math Meaningful

https://youtu.be/qZaZGL-vP5E

“Mathematics, like music, needs to be expressed in physical actions and human interactions before its symbols can evoke the silent patterns of mathematical ideas.”
Richard R. Skemp, 1983, in Mathematics Teaching

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