Embodied Social Cognition

• Main Author: Lindblom, Jessica (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Cognitive Systems Monographs, 26
• Subjects: Engineering.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Developmental psychology.; Cognitive psychology.; Computational Intelligence.; Cognitive Psychology.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Developmental Psychology.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

This book clarifies the role and relevance of the body in social interaction and cognition from an embodied cognitive science perspective. Theories of embodied cognition have during the last decades offered a radical shift in explanations of the human mind, from traditional computationalism, to emph...