The Hand, an organ of the mind what the manual tells the mental - Radman, Zdravko 1951- (Cambridge, Massachusetts MIT Press, 2013)
505 0 Hand-centeredness -- "Capable of whatever man's ingenuity suggests": agency, deafferentation, and the control of movement -- Developmental origins of the hand in the mind, and the role of the hand in the development of the mind -- Hand-centered space, hand-centered attention, and the control of movement -- Beyond the boundaries of the hand : plasticity of body-space interactions following tool use -- Togetherness in touch -- Touching hands: a neurocognitive review of intersubjective touch -- Touch and the sense of reality -- Perception and representation mind in hand! -- Phenomenology of the hand -- Manual enaction -- The enactive hand -- Radically enactive cognition in our grasp -- The gist of gestures -- Gesture as thought? -- Is cognition embedded or extended? The case of gestures -- Pointing hand: joint attention and embodied symbols -- Manipulation and the mundane -- Privileging exploratory hands: prehension, apprehension, comprehension -- The ecultured hand -- On displacement of agency: the mind handmade -- Tomorrow's hands -- A critical review of classical computational approaches to cognitive robotics : case study for theories of cognition? -- Postscript : Rehabilitating the hand: reflections of a haptic artist.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Human engineering; Gesture; Handicraft