Making sense of embodied cognition: Simulation theories of shared neural mechanisms for sensorimotor and cognitive processes

Body, Language and Mind: Embodiment

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 241-270

  Svensson, Henrik ^a   Lindblom, Jessica ^a   Ziemke, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Action; Embodied cognition; Gesture; Intersubjectivity; Language; Mirror neurons; Perception; Simulation theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 85064425595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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