Embodied cognition: An approach for sport psychology

In contrast to traditional views of the mind as an abstract information processor, recent theories of embodied cognition suggest that our representations of objects and events are grounded in action. In this review, we document recent behavioral and neuropsychological evidence in support of an embodied viewpoint and we argue that sensorimotor experience plays a pivotal role in the embodied cognition framework. As such, not only can cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience work inform sport psychology theory and research, but sport psychology (and motor skills expertise research in particular) is imperative for advancing theories of embodied cognition as well.