Bodies and Other Objects - The Sensorimotor Foundations of Cognition

Describes a unified framework for embodied cognition that reconciles sensorimotor and representational accounts of cognition, connecting currently disparate traditions.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Rob Ellis, Rob (University of Plymouth) Ellis, Ellis Rob
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781107060289
• ISBN: 978-1-107-06028-9
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Cognitivism, cognitive theory