For cognitive systems, embodiment appears to be of crucial importance.
It foreshadowed the development of a now prominent direction in musical studies, called 'embodiment studies.' The field is less interested in scores and musical theory and more in the cognitive and embodied underpinnings of music.
While there is no doubt about the empirical "oomph" of embodied cognitive science, the extent to which this work either challenges traditional views or requires one or another of the determinate forms of the Embodiment Thesis that we articulated Body as Constraint, Body as Distributor, and Body as Regulator might be questioned.
He is the author of Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension" (Oxford University Press, 2008).
Turning to the "enactivists", who would have consciousness as a collaboration between brain, body and object, the best books I have read are Andy Clark's Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension, and W Teed Rockwell's Neither Brain Nor Ghost: A Nondualist Alternative to the Mind-Brain Identity Theory.
Clark here provided an integrative framework for a wide-range of emerging work on embodiment in the cognitive sciences.
Given such unanswered questions, there are likely to be rich contributions to the literature as well as theory by focusing on embodiment as a cognitive phenomenon at the individual level.
The TPJs have been implicated not only in visual attention [54], but also in other cognitive processes including self-attribution, embodiment, empathy, and mentalization [55] [58].
Yet, even these "offline" cognitive activities are enriched by embodiment, since stimuli embedded within past memories trigger multimodal simulations throughout the body and brain and recreate lived experience.
