Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
"As a neuroscientist, I found this book to be thorough and extremely helpful"
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About the Author
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 Linguisticsand editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal, Metaphor and Symbol.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Bodies and persons; 3. Perception and action; 4. Concepts; 5. Imagery, memory, and reasoning; 6. Language and communication; 7. Cognitive development; 8. Emotion and consciousness; 9. Conclusion.