Abstract: The basic claim of embodied cognition is that the body plays an important role in human cognition. However, this basic claim involves three important questions: What is body? What is cognitive process? To what extent the body is important to cognition? This paper explains different understandings of three different approaches to embodied cognition, i.e., sensorimotor approach, extended functionalism approach and enacted approach, and finally defends the enacted approach of embodied cognition.

Key words: embodiment, cognition, sensorimotor, extended functionalism, enacted