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Embodied Cognition in Child Development

2025· reference-entry· en· W4412418599 on OpenAlexaff
Mia Radovanovic, Jessica A. Sommerville

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology · 2025
Typereference-entry
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicChild and Animal Learning Development
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEmbodied cognitionCognitionCognitive sciencePsychologyDevelopmental psychologyComputer scienceNeuroscienceArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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Abstract Developmental psychology has a rich history of investigating the impact of children’s bodily experience on their learning and conceptual development. Early 21st-century evidence bears out this classic speculation: Infants’ and children’s firsthand bodily experience appears to especially contribute to their spatial understanding, cause-and-effect reasoning, and action understanding. Although the degree to which bodily experience influences early learning and cognitive development is debated (e.g., relative to innate influences), there are compelling reasons to believe that sensorimotor actions are useful for understanding actions and events in the world and that bodily experience aids learning by building conceptual representations and freeing cognitive resources. Moreover, bodily experience entails a sense of agency, which in turn has important cognitive consequences, given the role of agency in motivation, curating the learning experience, and providing a referent (i.e., the self) to which to bind experience.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesResearch integrity
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.553
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.062
GPT teacher head0.408
Teacher spread0.346 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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