This usage of fingers is a manifestation of embodied cognition and in the case of counting has been labeled embodied numerosity (Moeller et al., 2012).
Durga's nine manifestations -- embodying qualities from courage to piety to blissful joy -- are celebrated in India during a huge nine-day festival called Navarati.
Since everything to which Dainichi preaches, is itself his manifestation as an embodied part of the cosmos, the sermon is ultimately a monologue.
In fact, as a manifestation of the embodied mind (Alibali, 2005; Hostetter & Alibali, 2008), gesture has been argued to enhance thought by foregrounding action in mental representation (Goldin-Meadow & Beilock, 2010).
Activation in the motor system is the embodied manifestation of this link between visible and abstract concepts and is as such suggested to reflect a process of associative semantic learning through which emotion words come to activate the regions critical for signaling emotions to others.
The constant witnessing of post-Ferguson, Mo., police brutality, now stretching into its second year, is just another manifestation of the prophecy embodied in N.W.A's ".... tha Police," the "Amazing Grace" of resistance against institutional violence.
After all, the Jim Crow laws and the public segregation and discrimination embodied in them were a manifestation of the values of the society, and the individuals within it.
While the research field settles on the evidentiary basis of claims of embodiment, arguably the best source of evidence at our disposal may be in both observing the visible manifestations of embodiment as well as experimentally manipulating the availability of embodied actions in an intervention.
The energy of the media age in all its manifestations -- music, film, video, the Web and even as embodied by prime-time professional wrestling -- is the feel the Republicans were after.
Wood embodied generosity.
