Guillemette Bolens

Guillemette Bolens is a Professor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, specializing in the cognitive foundations of movement perception in art and literature. Her work bridges cognitive neuroscience, literary theory, and art history through the lens of kinesic intelligence.

Her research focuses on:

• Kinesic Intelligence
• Embodied Cognition
• Gesture Studies
• Medieval French Literature
• Art Perception
• Sensorimotor Simulation

Bolens investigates how non-linguistic motor cognition enables the rapid interpretation of gestures and movement nuances in artistic and literary contexts, arguing that this process precedes verbalization and that certain texts compensate for language's limitations in conveying kinesic details. Her framework emphasizes the role of visuomotor configurations and embodied cognition in understanding sensorimotor events within medieval literary traditions.