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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460552603321

Titolo

The implications of embodiment : cognition and communication / / edited by Wolfgang Tschacher and Claudia Bergomi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Exeter, UK : , : Imprint Academic, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

1-84540-551-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Disciplina

153

Soggetti

Human body (Philosophy)

Interpersonal communication

Cognition

Identity (Philosophical concept)

Movement, Psychology of

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Contents ; Front Matter ; Title Page ; Publisher Information ; Introduction ; The Implications of Embodiment ; Scientific Roots of Embodiment; In Quest of Human Nature: Rediscovery of the Body; The Implications of Embodiment for Behavior and Cognition: Animal and Robotic Case Studies ; Interpretations of Embodied Cognition ; Embodiment: Formal Approaches; The Transfer of Principles of Non-Equilibrium Physics to Embodied Cognition ; Embodied Inference: or "I think therefore I am, if I am what I think" ; Social Embodiment

Expanding Perspectives: The Interactive Development of Perspective-Taking in Early Childhood Basic Body Rhythms: From Individual to Interpersonal Movement Feedback ; Dance: the Human Body as a Dynamic Motion System; Nonverbal synchrony in psychotherapy: embodiment at the level of the dyad ; The Role of Embodied Communication in Therapeutic Change: A Multiple Code Perspective ; Embodiment & Ecological Psychology; Affordances, Effectivities, and Extension of the Body; Embodiment and the Arts; Back Matter ; About the Authors; Also Available