Embodied or embodiment may refer to:
Anthropology
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Embodiment theory in anthropology
Embodiment theory speaks to the ways that experiences are enlivened, materialized, and situated in the world through the body. Embodiment is a relatively amorphous and dynamic conceptual framework in anthropological research that emphasizes possib ...
Cognitive science
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Embodied bilingual language
Embodied bilingual language, also known as L2 embodiment, is the idea that people mentally simulate their actions, perceptions, and emotions when speaking and understanding a second language (L2) as with their first language (L1). It is closely re ...
, in cognitive science
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Embodied cognition
Embodied cognition is the theory that many features of cognition, whether human or otherwise, are shaped by aspects of an organism's entire body. Sensory and motor systems are seen as fundamentally integrated with cognitive processing. The cognit ...
, a theory that many aspects of cognition are shaped by the body
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Embodied cognitive science
Embodied cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field of research, the aim of which is to explain the mechanisms underlying intelligent behavior. It comprises three main methodologies: the modeling of psychological and biological systems in a ...
, seeks to explain the mechanisms underlying intelligent behavior
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Embodied design
Embodied design grows from the idea of embodied cognition: that the actions of the body can play a role in the development of thought and ideas.Sam McNerney "Embodied Cognition and Design: A New Approach and Vocabulary" (2013)Dor Abrahamson, and Ro ...
, that the actions of the body can play a role in the development of thought and ideas
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Embodied imagination Embodied imagination is a therapeutic and creative form of working with dreams and memory, memories pioneered by Dutch Jungian psychoanalyst Robert Bosnak and based on principles first developed by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, especially in his wor ...
, a therapeutic form of working with dreams and memories
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Embodied knowledge
Tacit knowledge or implicit knowledge—as opposed to formal, codified or explicit knowledge—is knowledge that is difficult to express or extract, and thus more difficult to transfer to others by means of writing it down or verbalizing it. This ...
, a.k.a. tacit knowledge
Music and arts
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Embodiment 12:14, a Christian Australian metalcore band
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Embodiment: Collapsing Under the Weight of God'', a 2008 album by the band Sculptured
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Embodied music cognition, in musicology
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Embodied writing Embodied writing practices are used by academics and artists to highlight the connection between writing and the body, bring consciousness to the cultural implications of academic writing, and inform an understanding of art forms as First-person nar ...
, practices are used by academics and artists to highlight the connection between writing and the body
Religion
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Incarnation
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Anthropopathy in Islam, a religious faith in early Islam similar to the Incarnation
Other
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Personification
Personification occurs when a thing or abstraction is represented as a person, in literature or art, as a type of anthropomorphic metaphor. The type of personification discussed here excludes passing literary effects such as "Shadows hold their b ...
, an embodiment of an
entity, usually in the form of a person.
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Embodied energy, required to produce any goods or services
*Embodied water or
virtual water, the water used in the production of a good or service
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Claim (patent), in patent law, embodiment refers to implementation of an invention
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Embodied agent
In artificial intelligence, an embodied agent, also sometimes referred to as an interface agent, is an intelligent agent that interacts with the environment through a physical body within that environment. Agents that are represented graphically ...
, an agent with a physical presence in the world (Robotics)
See also
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Embodyment, American Christian rock band
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