Embodiment and Cognitive Science

by Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521010497
• ISBN13: 9780521010498
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.0"