Embodied Cognition


The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (Philosophy of Mind)
How the Body Shapes the Mind
Embodied Cognition
The New Science of the Mind: From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology
Metaphors We Live By
The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding
How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement
Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds
The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
Enaction: Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science (Bradford Books)
Sensorimotor Life: An enactive proposal
Mind in Life by Evan ThompsonDrop by Helen McKibbenThe Embodied Mind by Francisco J. VarelaWhat Computers Still Can't Do by Hubert L. DreyfusPhenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Embodied Cognition
102 books — 37 voters

António Damásio
If ensuring the survival of the body proper is what the brain first evolved for, then, when minded brains first appeared, they began by minding the body. And to ensure body survival as effectively as possible, nature, I suggest, stumbled on a highly effective solution: representing the outside world in terms of the modifications it causes in the body proper, that is, representing the environment by modifying the primordial representations of the body proper whenever an interaction between organi ...more
Antonio Damasio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

Amit Ray
Embodied cognition is the science linked with the ancient science of mantra-tantra-yantra systems. It deals with body-mind and ego simultaneously as an integrated system. It encompasses biological, psychological and cultural context together.
Amit Ray, Mantra Design Fundamentals - Basics of mantra forms, structures, compositions, and formulas

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