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Schöner, G. (2014). Embodied Cognition, Dynamic Field Theory of. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_55-1
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