Developing embodied cognition: Insights from children's concepts and language processing

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Wellsby, Michele ^a   Pexman, Penny M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action; Concepts; Developmental science; Embodied cognition; Language development; Sensorimotor processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904469833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00506     Document Type: Review

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