9781433829604-1433829606-How the Body Shapes Knowledge: Empirical Support for Embodied Cognition

How the Body Shapes Knowledge: Empirical Support for Embodied Cognition

ISBN-13: 9781433829604
ISBN-10: 1433829606
Edition: 1
Author: Dr. Rebecca Fincher-Kiefer PhD
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Format: Paperback 195 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781433829604
ISBN-10: 1433829606
Edition: 1
Author: Dr. Rebecca Fincher-Kiefer PhD
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Format: Paperback 195 pages

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How the Body Shapes Knowledge: Empirical Support for Embodied Cognition (ISBN-13: 9781433829604 and ISBN-10: 1433829606), written by authors Dr. Rebecca Fincher-Kiefer PhD, was published by American Psychological Association in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Physiological Aspects (Psychology & Counseling) books. You can easily purchase or rent How the Body Shapes Knowledge: Empirical Support for Embodied Cognition (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Physiological Aspects books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.61.

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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 a calculating machine, or are our thoughts and emotions “grounded” in specific, felt, bodily experience?

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.

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.

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