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The hand, an organ of the mind : what the manual tells the mental /

"Cartesian-inspired dualism enforces a theoretical distinction between the motor and the cognitive and locates the mental exclusively in the head. This collection, focusing on the hand, challenges this dichotomy, offering theoretical and empirical perspectives on the interconnectedness and inte...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Radman, Zdravko, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2013.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Hand-centeredness
  • "Capable of whatever man's ingenuity suggests": agency, deafferentation, and the control of movement
  • Developmental origins of the hand in the mind, and the role of the hand in the development of the mind
  • Hand-centered space, hand-centered attention, and the control of movement
  • Beyond the boundaries of the hand: plasticity of body-space interactions following tool use
  • Togetherness in touch
  • Touching hands: a neurocognitive review of intersubjective touch
  • Touch and the sense of reality
  • Perception and representation mind in hand!
  • Phenomenology of the hand
  • Manual enaction
  • The enactive hand
  • Radically enactive cognition in our grasp
  • The gist of gestures
  • Gesture as thought?
  • Is cognition embedded or extended? The case of gestures
  • Pointing hand: joint attention and embodied symbols
  • Manipulation and the mundane
  • Privileging exploratory hands: prehension, apprehension, comprehension
  • The ecultured hand
  • On displacement of agency: the mind handmade
  • Tomorrow's hands
  • A critical review of classical computational approaches to cognitive robotics: case study for theories of cognition?
  • Postscript: Rehabilitating the hand: reflections of a haptic artist.