Bøker av Jr. Gibbs

In this bold new work, Ray Gibbs demonstrates that human cognition is deeply poetic and that figurative imagination shapes the way we understand ourselves and the world in which we live.

This 2006 book describes the many ways that the mind and body are closely interrelated, and how human thought and language are fundamentally linked to bodily action. The embodied nature of mind is explored through many topics, such as perception, thinking, language use, development, emotions, and consciousness.

Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought, how we process language, and how we comprehend abstract meaning. Points on these and related questions are raised and argued by internationally recognized experts in the area of figurative language.