The embodied mind extended: Using words as social tools

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Borghi, Anna M ^a,b   Scorolli, Claudia ^a   Caligiore, Daniele ^b   Baldassarre, Gianluca ^b   Tummolini, Luca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body schema; Embodied cognition; Extended cognition; Incorporation; Language comprehension; Social cognition; Tool use; Words as tools

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878946715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00214     Document Type: Article

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