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Embodied and Extended Cognition

Embodied and Extended Cognition is a research topic within Cognitive Neuroscience. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the predictive brain theory, which integrates concepts of active inference, free energy principle, and embodied cognition. It delves into the role of neural dynamics, affordances, and the enactive approach in shaping cognition. Additionally, it investigates the extension of cognition into the environment and social interactions through distributed cognition.

  • Predictive Brain Theory
  • Embodied Cognition
  • Active Inference
  • Free Energy Principle
  • Enactive Approach
  • Neural Dynamics
  • Affordances
  • Extended Mind
  • Social Cognition
  • Distributed Cognition
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+50%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Embodied and Extended Cognition

Which countries lead Embodied and Extended Cognition research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (949 and 349 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 949 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 349 works
  3. 3 Germany 275 works
  4. 4 Italy 193 works
  5. 5 China 190 works
  6. 6 Canada 132 works
  7. 7 France 114 works
  8. 8 Japan 105 works
  9. 9 Australia 103 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 99 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 37.8%United Kingdom: 13.9%Germany: 11.0%Italy: 7.7%6 others listed: 29.6%38%largest
United States949 · 37.8%United Kingdom349 · 13.9%Germany275 · 11.0%Italy193 · 7.7%6 others listed742 · 29.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Embodied and Extended Cognition research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Embodied and Extended Cognition research, followed by University of Oxford and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 33 works
  2. 2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 33 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 31 works
  4. 4 Salesian UniversityMexico 29 works
  5. 5 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 24 works
  6. 6 CHDI FoundationUnited States 17 works
  7. 7 University of CopenhagenDenmark 16 works
  8. 8 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 15 works
  9. 9 Oldham CouncilUnited Kingdom 15 works
  10. 10 Ruhr University BochumGermany 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Embodied and Extended Cognition?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Embodied and Extended Cognition include Yoshua Bengio, Albert Bandura and Karl John Friston.

  1. 1 Yoshua Bengio Canada 476k citations
  2. 2 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  3. 3 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  4. 4 Roy Frederick Baumeister United States 183k citations
  5. 5 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Embodied and Extended Cognition?

The most cited paper in Embodied and Extended Cognition is "Minds, brains, and programs" (John Rogers Searle, 1980), with 6,674 citations. Next come "Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science" (6,131) and "The Extended Mind" (5,419).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Minds, brains, and programs John Rogers Searle · Behavioral and Brain Sciences Sep 1980 6,674
2 Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science Andy Clark · Behavioral and Brain Sciences Open access 10 May 2013 6,131
3 The Extended Mind Andy Clark, David J. Chalmers · Analysis 1998 5,419
4 Self-Perception Theory Daryl J. Bem · Advances in experimental social psychology Book chapter 1972 5,282
5 Six views of embodied cognition Margaret Mary Wilson · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Open access Dec 2002 4,734
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Where is Embodied and Extended Cognition research done?

The largest centres of Embodied and Extended Cognition research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Beijing (China) and Rome (Italy).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 91 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 52 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 51 works
  4. 4 RomeItaly 47 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 46 works
  6. 6 Mexico CityMexico 42 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 40 works
  8. 8 OxfordUnited Kingdom 38 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C.United States 35 works
  10. 10 ZurichSwitzerland 29 works
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Where is the best place to study Embodied and Extended Cognition?

Among universities, judged by research, University College London, University of Oxford and University of Exeter score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University College LondonUnited Kingdom 81.229.8%4.8×24 -6.7%
2University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 75.516.1%7.5×33 +105.3%
3University of ExeterUnited Kingdom 58.024.4%7.2×10 +85.2%
4University of CopenhagenDenmark 55.515.0%5.2×16 +105.0%
5Salesian UniversityMexico 55.48.6%2010.8×29 -
6University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 51.913.0%3.9×15 +69.2%
7Monash UniversityAustralia 51.519.2%4.3×13 +7.0%
8Aarhus UniversityDenmark 51.321.3%4.5×12 +44.8%
9Ruhr University BochumGermany 50.213.7%11.4×15 +10.2%
10University of the Basque CountrySpain 49.325.7%5.7×8 +17.4%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Embodied and Extended Cognition, country by country

Is Embodied and Extended Cognition research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 50% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Embodied and Extended Cognition.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Embodied and Extended Cognition as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0082% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Embodied and Extended Cognition over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Embodied and Extended Cognition11.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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