Contents

List of contributors

Introduction

Yann Coello and Martin H. Fischer

PART I Theoretical accounts and neural basis of embodiment

1 Situated conceptualization: Theory and applications

Lawrence W. Barsalou

2 Assessing radical embodiment

Pierre Jacob

3 The animal-environment system

Luis H. Favela and Anthony Chemero

4 Embodied cognition according to TEC (Theory of Event Coding)

Bernhard Hommel

5 Grounding and embodiment of concepts and meaning: A neurobiological perspective

Rachel Moseley, Markus Kiefer and Friedemann Pulvermüller

PART II The body represented

6 Types of body representation

Matthew R. Longo

7 The body schema as a condition of possibility for action

Hong Yu Wong

8 Bodily affordances and bodily experiences

Frédérique de Vignemont

PART III Embodied perception

9 How actions constrain the visual perception of space

Nicolas Morgado and Richard Palluel-Germain

10 How the body narrows the interaction with the environment

Marcello Costantini and Mog Stapleton

11 Embodied perception of objects and people in space: Towards a unified theoretical framework

Yann Coello and Tina Iachini

PART IV Embodied emotion

12 Embodied emotion: The functional mystery of embodying emotions

Martial Mermillod and Johan Lepage

13 Embodying emotions: The role of bodily changes in emotional processing in normal and psychopathological populations

Anne Kever, Delphine Grynberg, Marie Bayot and Nicolas Vermeulen

14 The role of the body from the inside for embodied cognition

Olga Pollatos

Author index

Subject index