Rebecca Fincher-Kiefer

Broschiertes Buch

How the Body Shapes Knowledge

Empirical Support for Embodied Cognition

Beschreibung

This text explores the theory of embodied cognition, which suggests that human cognition is “grounded” in the neural pathways linked to bodily sensation.  

Autor

Rebecca Fincher-Kiefer, PhD, is professor of psychology at Gettysburg College. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in 988 and has been teaching at Gettysburg College since then. Throughout her 3 years of teaching, Dr. Fincher-Kiefer has dedicated her research to better understanding inferential processing during reading, hemispheric differences in inferential processing, and the nature of the mental representation of text. She is interested in how the body influences human cognition. Dr. Fincher-Kiefer is based in Gettysburg, PA. Visit https://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/psychology/faculty/.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: American Psychological Association (APA)
• Seitenzahl: 195
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781433829604
• ISBN-10: 1433829606
• Artikelnr.: 54803148