Self-other contingencies: Enacting social perception

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 417-437

  McGann, Marek ^a   de Jaegher, Hanne ^b,c  

^a Mary Immaculate College   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Cognition; Cultural psychology; Embodiment; Enaction; Intersubjectivity; Participatory sense making; Perception; Self; Skill; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 77349087561     PISSN: 15687759     EISSN: 15728676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11097-009-9141-7     Document Type: Article

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