TY - BOOK ID - 85645677 TI - Bodies and other objects : the sensorimotor foundations of cognition PY - 2018 SN - 1108621171 1107446805 110858022X 1107060281 9781107060289 1107629802 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Cognition. KW - Cognition and culture. KW - Culture and cognition KW - Cognition KW - Culture KW - Ethnophilosophy KW - Ethnopsychology KW - Socialization KW - Psychology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85645677 AB - Bodies and Other Objects is written for students, scholars and anyone with an interest in embodied cognition - the claim that the human mind cannot be understood without regard for the actions and capacities of the body. The impulse to write this book was a dissatisfaction with the inconsistent, and often shallow, use of the term 'embodied cognition'. This text attempts to reframe cognitive science with a unified theory of embodied cognition in which sensorimotor elements provide the basis for cognition, including symbolic exchanges that arise within a society of agents. It draws ideas and evidence from experimental psychology, neuroscience, philosophy and anthropology in reaching the conclusion that human cognition is best understood as the means by which exchanges within a constantly evolving network of skilful bodies and objects are regulated so as to further human interests. ER -