Embodied cognition and beyond: Acting and sensing the body

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 763-773

  Borghi, Anna M ^a,b   Cimatti, Felice ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action; Body parts; Categorization; Embodied cognition; Embodiment; Extended mind; Grounded cognition; Language comprehension; Sensation; Sense of body; Social action

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY REGIONS; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; EMBODIED COGNITION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MENTAL HEALTH; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BODY IMAGE; COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 74449089110     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.10.029     Document Type: Article

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