- Beilock, Sian L. and Lauren E. Holt. "Embodied Preference Judgments: Can Likeability be Driven by the Motor System?" Psychological Science, vol. 18 no. 1 (2007). PDF file
This article details an experiment that compared the preferences of novice and experienced typists for particular letter combinations. Finding that experienced typists prefer easier-to-type combinations, even outside the context of typing, Beilock and Holt suggest that "the body not only contributes to understanding, but also shapes affective judgments."
- Bennett, Drake. "Don't Just Stand There, Think," The Boston Globe, 13 Jan. 2008. PDF file
A layman's survey of the field of embodied cognition, focusing on recent experimental research.
- Johnson, Mark. "Music and the Flow of Meaning," The Meaning of
the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding (Chicago, 2007),
pp. 235-262. PDF file
Johnson examines the way art conveys meaning, arguing that rather than signifying in a referential way ("music as a language"), music's meaning comes from metaphors that depend on embodied experiences of motion, landscape, and force.
- McNeill, David. "Gesture and Thought" in Anna Esposito et al
(eds), The Fundamentals of Verbal and Non Verbal Communication
and the Biometrical Issues (Amsterdam, 2007), pp. 20-33. PDF file
McNeill argues that gesture is not merely ancillary to speech, but interacts with it in a dialectic that is essential to language and thought.
- Wilson, Margaret. "Six Views of Embodied Cognition"
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review vol. 9 no. 4 (1 December
2002): 625-626. PDF file
Wilson identifies six core tenets of embodied cognition research and queries the validity and usefulness of each.
