Rob Ellis (University of Plymouth)

Bodies and Other Objects

The Sensorimotor Foundations of Cognition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is written for students, scholars and anyone with an interest in embodied cognition - the claim that the human mind cannot be understood without regard for the actions and capacities of the body. It offers a novel way of combining psychology, neuroscience and anthropology to yield a unified theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9781107629806
• ISBN-10: 1107629802
• Artikelnr.: 59998146

Autorenporträt

Rob Ellis is Emeritus Professor of Psychology within the School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Reframing cognition
2. Vision and action
3. Tool use and tool incorporation
4. Agency, objects and others
5. Material cultures
6. Language
7. A synthesis: networks of human agents as physical symbol systems.