Which body for embodied cognition? Affordance and language within actual and perceived reaching space

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1551-1557

  Ambrosini, Ettore ^a   Scorolli, Claudia ^b   Borghi, Anna M ^b,c   Costantini, Marcello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Affordance; Embodied cognition; Grasping; Peripersonal space; Reachability

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL REACHING SPACE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISSOCIATION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EMBODIED RECOGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEAR REACHING SPACE; NONREACHING SPACE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; OBSERVATION; PERCEIVED REACHING SPACE; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SELF CONCEPT; SPACE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VELOCITY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; BODY IMAGE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PERSONAL SPACE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84865373675     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.06.010     Document Type: Article

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