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- ISBN 9781433166143
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 150 x 225mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2019
- Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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How does the brain function in communion with the body to create complex thought and emotion? Mind Embodied: The Evolutionary Origins of Complex Cognitive Abilities in Modern Humans begins with an investigation of the embodied basis of complex cognitive abilities and sets out a theory of their evolutionary and developmental origins, their autochthonous beginnings in other species, their appearance at the margins of humankind, and their culmination in a panoply of highly elaborated abilities and skills in present-day hominins. This book explores and examines music, aesthetic movement, the visual arts, creative abilities, language and communication, sociality, narrative and conceptual thought, the beginnings of artificial intelligence augmentation, and even the finesse and tastes of an oenophile.
Jay Seitz holds a PhD in cognitive psychology/cognitive development with additional training in political theory (CUNY), clinical psychology (The New School), and neuropsychology (Fielding Graduate University). He has published scientific articles on the evolutionary and developmental origins of creativity, the bodily basis of thought, and the cognitive neuroscience of music and dance.
