Beyond the body and external representations … the brain. A commentary on the article Learning beyond the body by Juan-Ignacio Pozo / Más allá del cuerpo y de las representaciones externas … el cerebro. Un comentario sobre el artículo Aprender más allá del cuerpo de Juan-Ignacio Pozo
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Beyond the body and external representations … the brain. A commentary on the article Learning beyond the body by Juan-Ignacio Pozo / Más allá del cuerpo y de las representaciones externas … el cerebro. Un comentario sobre el artículo Aprender más allá del cuerpo de Juan-Ignacio Pozo
My commentary is based on three matters derived from Ignacio Pozo’s article. First, I present my defence of the cognitive research that Pozo criticizes and characterizes as methodologically aseptic and disembodied. Second, I discuss my doubts regarding the author’s arguments on external representations overcoming the limitations of embodied cognition. Third, I examine the neuroscience perspective in order to clarify the representational debate.
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