Embodiment research is at a turning point. There is an increasing amount of data and studies investigating embodiment phenomena and their role in mental processing and functions from across a wide range of disciplines and theoretical schools within the life sciences. However, the integration of behavioral data with data from different biological levels is challenging for the involved research fields such as movement psychology, social and developmental neuroscience, computational psychosomatics, social and behavioral epigenetics, human-centered robotics, and many more. This highlights the need for an interdisciplinary framework of embodiment research. In addition, there is a growing need for a cross-disciplinary consensus on level-specific criteria of embodiment. We propose that a developmental perspective on embodiment is able to provide a framework for overcoming such pressing issues, providing analytical tools to link timescales and levels of embodiment specific to the function under study, uncovering the underlying developmental processes, clarifying level-specific embodiment criteria and providing a matrix and platform to bridge disciplinary boundaries among the involved research fields.

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体现研究的发展框架：整合概念和方法的下一步

实施研究正处于转折点。越来越多的数据和研究调查了生命科学中的广泛学科和理论流派，调查具身现象及其在心理处理和功能中的作用。然而，行为数据与来自不同生物层面的数据的整合对于运动心理学、社会和发展神经科学、计算心身学、社会和行为表观遗传学、以人为中心的机器人技术等所涉及的研究领域来说具有挑战性。这突出了对具体化研究的跨学科框架的需求。此外，越来越需要就具体水平的具体标准达成跨学科的共识。