Embodiment has become a key concept in human life sciences and humanities. However, a closer look unveils that embodiment definitions vary strongly among research areas and theoretical schools. Consequently, inter- and transdisciplinary conceptualizations of embodiment as well as practical collaborations face the problem of how to integrate data across disciplines and the involved levels, data modalities, and types of knowledge production of embodiment. This is especially the case in some recently emerged research areas, which try to integrate psychological and neurophysiological or molecular data in experimental designs such as movement studies, social developmental neuroscience, and neuroepigenetics of stress, learning, and memory. In addition, in the human life sciences the potential influence of underlying developmental processes on embodiment are often not taken into account despite their significance for the mechanisms under study. 

This workshop aims at retracing the developmental processes underlying different levels of embodiment and at developing an integrative framework across different embodiment concepts in psychology, movement studies, neuroscience, and neuroepigenetics. 

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