Semiotics, Cognition, and Culture from an Embodied Cognition Approach

In this article, we will introduce how the intersection of broad fields such as semiotics, cognition, and cultural studies can be understood from an embodied approach to cognition. This article explores a possible exploration of this intertwining that seeks to understand how our sensory and motor experiences, rooted in embodiment, shape the way we interpret cultural signs and construct meaning. To do so, we will mainly use some principles of ecological psychology and sensorimotor enactivism. We will address the dimensions of embodied cognition from the phenomenological field proposed by the German biologist Jakob J. von Uexküll, and particularly, we will use the term umwelt intertwined with ecological psychology and enactivism.