Beyond the body? : : the future of embodied cognition / / edited by Guy Dove.

• Author: Guy Dove
• TeilnehmendeR: Dove, Guy,
• Place / Publishing House: Lausanne, Switzerland : : Frontiers Media SA,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (147 pages) :; illustrations, charts; digital, PDF file(s).

Embodied cognition represents one of most important research programs in contemporary cognitive science. Although there is a diversity of opinion concerning the nature of embodiment, the core idea is that cognitive processes are influenced by body morphology, emotions, and sensorimotor systems. This...

Table of Contents

• How to go beyond the body: an introduction
• The co-constitution of the self and the world: action and proprioceptive coupling
• Mapping the feel of the arm with the sight of the object: on the embodied origins of infant reaching
• Developing embodied cognition: insights from children’s concepts and language processing
• A perceptual account of symbolic reasoning
• NIRS in motion—unraveling the neurocognitive underpinnings of embodied numerical cognition
• The specificity of action knowledge in sensory and motor systems
• Clustering, hierarchical organization, and the topography of abstract and concrete nouns
• Toward a more embedded/extended perspective on the cognitive function of gestures
• The body and the fading away of abstract concepts and words: a sign language analysis
• Sensory motor mechanisms unify psychology: the embodiment of culture
• Action scaling of distance perception is task specific and does not predict “the embodiment of culture”: a comment on Soliman, Gibson, and Glenberg (2013)
• How intent to interact can affect action scaling of distance: reply to Wilson
• Linguistic embodiment and verbal constraints: human cognition and the scales of time
• 9 Embodied niche construction in the hominin lineage: semiotic structure and sustained attention in human embodied cognition.