Embodiment and Cognitive Science

This 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. People's embodied experiences are critical to the ways they think and speak and, most generally, understand themselves, other people, and the world around them. This work provides a strong defense of the idea that embodied action is critical to the study of human cognition.

Author: Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/01/2005
Pages: 348
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.42w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780521010498

About the Author
Gibbs Jr, Raymond W.: - Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is previously the author of The Poetics of Mind and Understanding and Intentions in the Experience of Meaning. He is co-editor (with G. Steen) of Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics" and editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal, Metaphor and Symbol.

This title is not returnable