Embodied

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-872790-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 602 g

We grow up thinking there are five senses, but we forget about the ten neglected senses of the body that both enable and limit our experience.

Embodied explores the psychology of physical sensation in ten chapters: balance, movement, pressure (acting in gravity), breathing, fatigue, pain, itch, temperature, appetite, and expulsion (the senses of physical matter leaving the body). For each sense, two people are interviewed who live with extreme experiences of the sense being investigated; their stories bring to life how far physical sensations matter to us and how much they define what is possible in our life. How physical sensation shapes behavior and how behavior is shaped by sensation are examined. A final chapter presents a theory of what is common across the ten senses: of how we deal with being urged to act, and what happens when extreme sensation is inescapable.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eccleston, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Experimentelle Psychologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Entwicklungsbiologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Eccleston is Professor Psychology at the University of Bath in the UK where he directs the Centre for Pain Research.