My aim is to offer a spirited defense of the essential role of embodied experience in many of the traditional topics studied by cognitive scientists, including ideas about personhood/self, perception/action, robotics, concepts, memory, imagery, reasoning, language and communication, cognitive development, and emotion and consciousness. The book provides overviews, and some details, of the vast growing body of empirical research in the cognitive sciences in defense of the embodied mind, and tries to situate embodiment in some broad philosophical perspective. Cognitive linguists should be interested in the book given my explicit attention to the work on embodied metaphor in relations to abstract concepts and neural theories of language. In fact, I explicitly argue that cognitive linguistic work deserves its rightful place within broad discussions of embodiment in cognitive science, something which I sometimes feel is lacking. (Raymond Gibbs) This book explores how people's subjective, felt experiences of their bodies in action provide part of the fundamental grounding for human cognition and language. Cognition is what occurs when the body engages the physical and cultural world and must be studied in terms of the dynamical interactions between people and the environment. Human language and thought emerge from recurring patterns of embodied activity that constrain ongoing intelligent behavior. We must not assume cognition to be purely internal, symbolic, computational, and disembodied, but seek out the gross and detailed ways that language and thought are inextricably shaped by embodied action. Embodiment and Cognitive Science describes the abundance of empirical evidence from many disciplines, including work on perception, concepts, imagery and reasoning, language and communication, cognitive development, and emotions and consciousness, that support the idea that the mind is embodied. (Publisher Book Description)