Nicki Shaughnessy and Melissa Trimingham are visiting the Centre for Embodied Cognition at Stony Brook University, New York, in November. They have been invited to talk about the Centre and will be discussing potential connections and collaborations. Their presentation offers an overview of the work being undertaken at the University of Kent’s Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance and the ways in which embodied cognition informs the practice based methodologies of the research undertaken. The principle case study discussed is ‘Imagining Autism’, an interdisciplinary project exploring the efficacy of drama, performance and intermediality as interventions for autism. Funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, the project is a collaboration between researchers in drama and cognitive psychology. Reference will also be made to a project using similar methods to explore well being in dementia.