{"product_id":"how-the-body-shapes-knowledge-rebecca-fincher-kiefer-9781433829604","title":"How the Body Shapes Knowledge: Empirical Support for Embodied Cognition","description":"If you are leaning backwards in your chair, are you more likely to think about the past than the future? When you say that someone \"leaves me cold,\" do you literally feel cold? What role does the body play in our perceptions of the world? Is the mind a calculating machine, or are our thoughts and emotions \"grounded\" in specific, felt, bodily experience? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Questions like these have long driven research in \u003ci\u003eembodied cognition\u003c\/i\u003e, a theory of mental functioning that has gained increasing prominence in recent decades. This book explores embodied cognition from an experimental psychology perspective. Author Rebecca-Fincher Kiefer examines a wealth of evidence, including behavioral studies supported by neuroscientific findings, that suggest that our knowledge of the world is represented, or grounded, in the neural pathways that were used when we initially experienced those concepts. A \"reuse\" of these same neural pathways, according to embodiment theory, is therefore what constitutes thinking. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With compelling descriptions and an investigative spirit, this book is essential reading for graduate and undergraduate students, and anyone seeking to understand the past, present, and future of human cognition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rebecca Fincher-Kiefer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1433829606\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781433829604\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e American Psychological Association (APA)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 7.00w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2019","brand":"Rebecca Fincher-Kiefer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994983104767,"sku":"9781433829604","price":71.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9a57a7ec-6bb1-446b-bb5a-40d1f552b498.jpg?v=1683333338","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-the-body-shapes-knowledge-rebecca-fincher-kiefer-9781433829604","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}