Embodied Grounding: Social, Cognitive, Affective, and Neuroscientific Approaches

by Gün R. Semin , Eliot R. Smith

• ISBN13: 9780521706155
• ISBN10: 0521706157
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780511474026
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

In recent years there has been an increasing awareness that a comprehensive understanding of language, cognitive and affective processes, and social and interpersonal phenomena cannot be achieved without understanding the ways these processes are grounded in bodily states. The term 'embodiment' captures the common denominator of these developments, which come from several disciplinary perspectives ranging from neuroscience, cognitive science, social psychology, and affective sciences. For the first time, this volume brings together these varied developments under one umbrella and furnishes a comprehensive overview of this intellectual movement in the cognitive-behavioral sciences. The chapters review current work on relations of the body to thought, language use, emotion and social relationships as presented by internationally recognized experts in these areas.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Introducing Embodied Grounding	p. 1
Embodied Language and Concepts
Grounding Symbolic Operations in the Brain's Modal Systems	p. 9
Toward the Integration of Bodily States, Language, and Action	p. 43
Brain Embodiment of Category-Specific Semantic Memory Circuits	p. 71
What Thoughts Are Made Of	p. 98
Embodiment of Social Cognition and Relationships
Grounding Social Cognition: Synchronization, Coordination, and Co-Regulation	p. 119
An Embodied Account of Self-Other "Overlap" and Its Effects	p. 148
The Embodiment of Power and Communalism in Space and Bodily Contact	p. 160
Embodied Persuasion: Fundamental Processes By Which Bodily Responses Can Impact Attitudes	p. 184
Embodiment and Affect
Affective Coherence: Affect as Embodied Evidence in Attitude, Advertising, and Art	p. 211
The Embodiment of Emotion	p. 237
The Embodied Emotional Mind	p. 263
Expression Entails Anticipation: Toward a Self-Regulatory Model of Bodily Feedback Effects	p. 289
Index	p. 309
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