Going with Embodied Skills -Extending Body and Mind-

Abstract

Embodied meta-cognition, which is a cognitive method to verbalize one's body feeling and thinking, augments learning embodied-skills. The first author is a track and field athlete specializing in decathlon. Through embodied meta-cognition, the first author has been training for about 1.5 years. Consequently, the first author has become sensitive to motion and evoked body feeling in daily lives. We conclude that learning embodies skills with embodied meta-cognition extends even the outlook on skills.