How the body shapes knowledge : empirical support for embodied cognition / Rebecca Fincher-Kiefer.

"If you are leaning backwards in your chair, are you more likely to think about the past than the future? When you say that someone "leaves me cold," do you literally feel cold? What role does the body play in our perceptions of the world? Is the mind calculating machine, or are our t...

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Main Author: Fincher-Kiefer, Rebecca (Author)
Format: Ebook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2019]
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505 0 |a Intro; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1. An Introduction to the Theory of Embodied Cognition; 2. The Bodyʼs Role in Perception; 3. The Bodyʼs Role in Social and Emotional Judgments; 4. The Bodyʼs Role in Higher Order Cognition; 5. The Bodyʼs Role in Language Comprehension; 6. The Role of Simulation in Cognitive Judgments; 7. The Role of Simulation in Emotion; 8. The Role of Metaphor in the Representation of Abstract Concepts; 9. Reactions to the Theory of Embodied Cognition; REFERENCES; ABOUT THE AUTHOR 
520 |a "If you are leaning backwards in your chair, are you more likely to think about the past than the future? When you say that someone "leaves me cold," do you literally feel cold? What role does the body play in our perceptions of the world? Is the mind calculating machine, or are our thoughts and emotions "grounded" in specific, felt, bodily experience?<BR /> <BR /> Questions like these have long driven research in embodied cognition, a theory of mental functioning that has gained increasing prominence in recent decades. This book explores embodied cognition from an experimental psychology perspective. Author Rebecca-Fincher Kiefer examines a wealth of evidence, including behavioral studies supported by neuroscientific findings, that suggest that our knowledge of the world is represented, or grounded, in the neural pathways that were used when we initially experienced those concepts. A "reuse" of these same neural pathways, according to embodiment theory, is therefore what constitutes thinking.<BR /> <BR /> With compelling descriptions and an investigative spirit, this book is essential reading for graduate and undergraduate students, and anyone seeking to understand the past, present, and future of human cognition.<BR />"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
520 |a "This book explores embodied cognition from an experimental psychology perspective. Rebecca-Fincher Kiefer examines a wealth of evidence, including behavioral studies supported by neuroscientific findings, that suggest that our knowledge of the world is represented, or grounded, in the neural pathways that were used when we initially experienced those concepts. A "reuse" of these same neural pathways, according to embodiment theory, is therefore what constitutes thinking. This book is essential reading for graduate and undergraduate students, and anyone seeking to understand the past, present, and future of human cognition"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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