IDIHCS   22126
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Memorias kinéticas
Autor/es:
MARINA TRAKAS
Lugar:
Madrid
Reunión:
Seminario; Seminario del grupo de investigación "Desarrollo Temprano y Educación"; 2019
Institución organizadora:
Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Resumen:
Despite the popularity that the embodied cognition thesis has gained in recent years, memories of events personally experienced are still conceived as disembodied mental representations. It seems that we can consciously remember our personal past through sensory imagery, through concepts, propositions and language, but not through the body. In this article, I defend the idea that the body constitutes a genuine means of representing past personal experiences. For this purpose, I focus on the analysis of motor behaviors and bodily movements associated with the retrieval of a personal memory, which have certain features that make them different than procedural memories, pragmatic actions and common gestures, as well as other forms of embodied memories found in recent literature. I refer to these as ?kinetic memories? and analyse their representative nature as well as their adaptive functions. Kinetic memories are motor behaviours and bodily movements in which some event or action that took place in the past can be seen, because they are an externalisation of the subject?s inner intention of representing a past personal experience. Kinetic memories represent a past experience sometimes by imitating a past movement, and other times by exemplifying some aspect of the past experience that was not itself embodied. Furthermore, they seem to facilitate memory recall, which I argue is their adaptive value, although individuals may additionally use them for different social and conversational purposes.