The role of body and environment in cognition

• Main Author: Dermot Lynott (auth)
• Other Authors: Judith Holler (auth), Louise Connell (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; Language comprehension; emotion; simulation; Embodied Cognition; Perception; action; spatial cognition; representation
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Recent evidence has shown many ways in which our bodies and the environment influence cognition. In this Research Topic we aim to develop our understanding of cognition by considering the diverse and dynamic relationship between the language we use, our bodily perceptions, and our actions and intera...