The enactive paradigm 33 years later: Response to Alfred Tauber

Constructivist Foundations

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 345-351

  Vaz, Nelson M ^a   Ramos, Gustavo C ^b   De Castro Jr , Archimedes B ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b NONE

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