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Embodiment in cognition and culture /

This volume shows that the notions of embodied or situated cognition, which have transformed the scientific study of intelligence have the potential to reorient cultural studies as well. The essays adapt and amplify embodied cognition in such different fields as art history, literature, history of s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Krois, John Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2007.
Colección:Advances in consciousness research ; v. 71.
Advances in consciousness research. Theory and method.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This volume shows that the notions of embodied or situated cognition, which have transformed the scientific study of intelligence have the potential to reorient cultural studies as well. The essays adapt and amplify embodied cognition in such different fields as art history, literature, history of science, religious studies, philosophy, biology, and cognitive science. The topics include the biological genesis of teleology, the dependence of meaning in signs upon biological embodiment, the notion of image schema and the concept of force in cognitive semantics, pictorial self-portraiture as a me.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxii, 304 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9789027292193
9027292191
9027252076
9789027252074
128215284X
9781282152847
9786612152849
6612152842
ISSN:1381-589X ;