Rebecca Fincher-Kiefer

How the Body Shapes Knowledge: Empirical Support for Embodied Cognition

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Produktbeschreibung

This text explores the theory of embodied cognition, which suggests that human cognition is “grounded” in the neural pathways linked to bodily sensation.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: American Psychological Association (APA)
• Seitenzahl: 195
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781433829604
• ISBN-10: 1433829606
• Artikelnr.: 54803148

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Fincher-Kiefer, PhD, is professor of psychology at Gettysburg College. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1988 and has been teaching at Gettysburg College since then. Throughout her 30 years of teaching, Dr. Fincher-Kiefer has dedicated her research to better understanding inferential processing during reading, hemispheric differences in inferential processing, and the nature of the mental representation of text. She is interested in how the body influences human cognition. Dr. Fincher-Kiefer is based in Gettysburg, PA. Visit https://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/psychology/faculty/.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Theory of Embodied Cognition
Chapter 2: The Body's Role in Perception
Chapter 3: The Body's role in Social and Emotional Judgments
Chapter 4: The Body's Role in Higher-Order Cognition
Chapter 5: The Body's Role in Language Comprehension
Chapter 6: The Role of Simulation in Cognitive Judgments
Chapter 7: The Role of Simulation in Emotion
Chapter 8: The Role of Metaphor in the Representation of Abstract Concepts
Chapter 9: Reactions to the Theory of Embodied Cognition
References
Index
About the Author