Embodied cognition: Taking the next step

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Willems, Roel M ^a,b   Francken, Jolien C ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognition; Embedded cognition; Embodied; Hypothesis generation; Semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874562449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00582     Document Type: Article

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