Embodiment, ego-space, and action / edited by Roberta L. Klatzky, Brian MacWhinney, Marlene Behrmann.

"This volume is a collection of papers presented at the 34th Carnegie Symposium on Cognition, held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in June 2006"--P. xi.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Measuring spatial perception with spatial perception with spatial updating and action / Jack M. Loomis and John W. Philbeck -- Bodily and motor contributions to action perception / Günther Knoblich -- The social dance : on-line body perception in the context of others / Catherine L. Reed and Daniel N. McIntosh -- Embodied motion perception : psychophysical studies of the factors defining visual sensitivity to self- and other-generated actions / Maggie Shiffrar -- The embodied actor in multiple frames of reference / Roberta L. Klatzky and Bing Wu -- An action-specific approach to spatial perception / Dennis R. Proffitt -- The affordance competition hypothesis : a framework for embodied behavior / Paul Cisek -- fMRI investigations of reaching and ego space in human superior parieto-occipital cortex / Jody C. Culham ... [and others] -- The growing body in action : what infant locomotion tells us about perceptually guided action / Karen E. Adolph -- Motor knowledge and action understanding : a developmental perspective / Bennett I. Bertenthal and Matthew R. Longo -- How mental models encode embodied linguistic perspectives / Brian MacWhinney.

Reports on the 2006 Carnegie Symposium on Cognition, which brought together the contributions to these issues from a group of researchers who span perspectives of behavioral science, neuroscience, developmental psychology and computation.