The main objective of this paper is to analyze, in detail, the embodied cognition as an incorporated action in a continuous process control. The method of research adopted was the ergonomic work analysis. The results show that the operators do not represent an external world, but instead they act think and act independently. The key point in this study is that lacking an internal representation the workers (operators) engage in Sensory-Motor Activities in work practical activities in response to environmental changes. There is no rupture among the perceiving, feeling, and thinking experiences. This study aims at investigating how socio and cultural processes are demanded to develop image-schemata and embodied-schemata, which can lead to abstract thinking using perception skills and motor response. This work suggests that linguistic expressions and higher cognitive processes evidence recurrent body experience dynamic patterns denominated image-schemata. It was founded that these patterns can be extended to non-tactile, non-physical, and non-visual experience structures.
Ergonomics; Activity; Process control; Embodied mind
