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American Psychological Association
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Author_Rebecca Fincher-Kiefer
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cognitive embodiment
cognitive science
conceptual representation
embodied cognition
embodied emotion
embodied language
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embodiment
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emotions
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experimental psychology
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knowledge
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language
learning
metaphor
mind-body connection
perception
perception-action link
perceptual symbols
physical awareness
physical environment
proffit
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thinking
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- ISBN 9781433829604
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 12 Mar 2019
- Publisher: American Psychological Association
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 amp ldquo leaves me cold, amp rdquo 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 amp ldquo grounded amp rdquo 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 amp ldquo reuse amp rdquo 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.
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 amp ldquo reuse amp rdquo 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.
Rebecca Fincher-Kiefer, PhD, is professor of psychology at Gettysburg College. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in 988 and has been teaching at Gettysburg College since then. Throughout her 3 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/.
