Bodies and other objects the sensorimotor foundations of cognition
Bodies and Other Objects 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. The impulse to write this book was a dissatisfaction with the inconsistent, and...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2018.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39764254*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Reframing Cognition
- Competing Conceptual Frameworks
- Phenomenology Sketched
- Phenomenology Tamed
- Assembling the Argument
- 2. Vision and Action
- Representing the World: a Cartesian Approach
- The Ecological Context of Vision
- Multiple Visual Systems: a Possible Resolution
- Affordance Revisited
- Visual Phenomenology and Visual Attention
- Drawing the Threads Together
- 3. Tool Use and Tool Incorporation
- Hands
- Making and Using Tools
- Brain and Cognitive Architecture for Tool Use and Toolmaking
- The Effective Body: Remapping Sensorimotor Systems and Neural Plasticity
- Natural-born Toolmakers: Genetic Inheritance and Cultural Transmission
- 4. Agency, Objects and Others
- The Emergence of the Social Brain
- Mirror Neurones in Monkeys and Humans: Action Understanding and Imitation
- But Mirror Neurons Do Not Just Mirror
- Cooperation in Joint Action on Objects
- Associative Learning within a Material and Social Culture
- A Predictive Brain?
- Actions, Intentions and Others: Dancing Again
- 5. Material Cultures
- Old and New Materialisms
- Objects and Agency Again
- The Loop: Making Things, Niche Construction and Remaking the Species
- Material Symbols, Networks and Symbol Systems
- 6. Language
- The Mirror Hypothesis
- The Toolmaker Hypothesis
- The Joint Action Hypothesis
- A Synthesis: Language as a Remarkable Confluence
- 7. A Synthesis: Networks of Human Agents as Physical Symbol Systems
- Sensorimotor Embedding: the Empirical Case for Our Place
- Motor Geniuses and Toolspace
- Acting Together: Everything We Do We Do Together
- The Very Extended Phenotype and Cultural Toolkits
- Adaptation to a Niche: the Exocerebrum and Virtual Symbol Systems
- From Ready-to-hand to Presence-at-hand: a Spectrum or Two Routes?
- A Research Programme for Embodied Cognitive Science.
