ReviewPsychonomic bulletin & review2022
What the study of spinal cord injured patients can tell us about the significance of the body in cognition.
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- Conceptualizing the studies of time perception in spinal cord injury.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2026Article
- Participant perspectives on a multimodal program for neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- How pain and body representations transform each other: A narrative review.Journal of neuropsychology · 2025Review
- Linking heartbeats with the cortical network dynamics involved in self-social touch distinction.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Chronic spinal cord injury is associated with morphometric brain changes in functional networks beyond the sensorimotor system.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- A Review of Studies Supporting Metaphorical Embodiment.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Minimal self-consciousness and the flying man argument.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Feasibility of using remotely delivered Spring Forest Qigong to reduce neuropathic pain in adults with spinal cord injury: a pilot study.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Although in the last three decades philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists have produced numerous studies on human cognition, the debate concerning its nature is still heated and current views on the subject are somewhat antithetical. On the one hand, there are those who adhere to a view implying 'disembodiment' which suggests that cognition is based entirely on symbolic processes. On the other hand, a family of theories referred to as the Embodied Cognition Theories (ECT) postulate that creating and maintaining cognition is linked with varying degrees of inherence to somatosensory and motor representations. Spinal cord injury induces a massive body-brain disconnection with the loss of sensory and motor bodily functions below the lesion level but without directly affecting the brain. Thus, SCI may represent an optimal model for testing the role of the body in cognition. In this review, we describe post-lesional cognitive modifications in relation to body, space and action representations and various instances of ECT. We discuss the interaction between body-grounded and symbolic processes in adulthood with relevant modifications after body-brain disconnection.
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