Embodiment and Cognitive Science

Raymond W Gibbs, Jr author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:5th Dec '05

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This 2006 book describes the many ways that the mind and body are closely interrelated.

This 2006 book describes the many ways that the mind and body are closely interrelated, and how human thought and language are fundamentally linked to bodily action. The embodied nature of mind is explored through many topics, such as perception, thinking, language use, development, emotions, and consciousness.This 2006 book explores how people's subjective, felt experiences of their bodies in action provide part of the fundamental grounding for human cognition and language. Cognition is what occurs when the body engages the physical and cultural world and must be studied in terms of the dynamical interactions between people and the environment. Human language and thought emerge from recurring patterns of embodied activity that constrain ongoing intelligent behavior. We must not assume cognition to be purely internal, symbolic, computational, and disembodied, but seek out the gross and detailed ways that language and thought are inextricably shaped by embodied action. Embodiment and Cognitive Science describes the abundance of empirical evidence from many disciplines, including work on perception, concepts, imagery and reasoning, language and communication, cognitive development, and emotions and consciousness, that support the idea that the mind is embodied.

"As a neuroscientist, I found this book to be thorough and extremely helpful" Contemporary Psychology: APA REview of Books

ISBN: 9780521010498

Dimensions: 228mm x 153mm x 19mm

Weight: 470g

348 pages