Overview
- Clarifies the role and relevance of the body in social interaction and cognition from an embodied cognitive science perspective
- Develops a framework for the embodied nature of social interaction and cognition
- Presents an interdisciplinary framework including work in cognitive science, computational intelligence, phenomenology, developmental psychology, neuroscience, social psychology, linguistics, communication and gesture studies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Cognitive Systems Monographs (COSMOS, volume 26)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 emphasizing the way cognition is shaped by the body and its sensorimotor interaction with the surrounding social and material world.
This book presents a theoretical framework for the relational nature of embodied social cognition, which is based on an interdisciplinary approach that ranges historically in time and across different disciplines. It includes work in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, phenomenology, ethology, developmental psychology, neuroscience, social psychology, linguistics, communication and gesture studies.
The theoretical framework is illustrated by empirical work that provides some detailed observational fieldwork on embodied actions captured in three different episodes of spontaneous social interaction and cognition in situ.
Furthermore, the theoretical contributions and implications of the study of embodied social cognition are discussed and summed up. Finally, the issue what it would take for an artificial system to be socially embodied is addressed and discussed, as well as the practical relevance for applications to artificial intelligence (AI) and socially interactive technology.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Embodied Social Cognition
Authors: Jessica Lindblom
Series Title: Cognitive Systems Monographs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20315-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20314-0Published: 15 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37173-3Published: 15 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20315-7Published: 03 July 2015
Series ISSN: 1867-4925
Series E-ISSN: 1867-4933
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 301
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Developmental Psychology, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction