1 Unifying the body, mind and culture -- References -- Part I: The mind and the body -- 2 Different bodies, different minds: The body-specificity of language and thought -- Introduction -- Body-specificity of action language and motor imagery -- Imagined actions -- Motor action and verb meaning -- Body-specificity of emotion -- Choosing sides -- How using your hands can change your mind -- Motivation and motor action -- Conclusions and future directions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 3 Body and mind in Euskera: Contrasting dialogic and monologic subjectivities -- Introduction: Theoretical considerations -- The concept of self -- The Basque concept gogo -- The construal of two common physical sensations: hunger and sleepiness -- Further evidence of dialogic subjectivity -- Conclusions -- References -- 4 The body in anatomy: Looking at head for the mind-body link in Chinese -- Introduction -- A look at head through a lexical scan -- A look at "head" through a decompositional analysis - -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part II: Cognition and perception -- 5 Perceptual landscapes from the perspective of cultures and genres -- Introduction -- Perceptual landscapes in architectural reviews -- Perceptual landscapes in wine reviews - -- The perceptual landscapes of architecture and wine in summary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 6 The power of the senses and the role of culture in metaphor and language -- Introduction -- Sense perception and conceptual metaphors in Cognitive Linguistics -- Some caveats: Motivation, entrenchment, and distribution -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 7 Vision and conceptualization in ancient Egyptian art -- Introduction -- Principles of ancient Egyptian art -- Evaluations of the principles of ancient Egyptian art.

Perspectives from the philosophy of perception -- The conceptual nature of ancient Egyptian art -- Mind, body and vision: Remarks by way of conclusion -- References -- 8 One man's cheese is another man's music: Synaesthesia and the bridging of cultural differences in the language of sensory perception -- Introduction -- Arguing with the senses -- One rat's cheese is another rat's fireworks -- Banquets of innocence and experience -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part III: Imagination and (e)motion -- 9 Embodied emotions in medieval English language and visual arts -- Introduction -- Methodology and data -- The embodiment of fear expressions in Old English -- The embodiment of fear in the Bayeaux Tapestry -- Interpreting pictorial signals of fear -- Results and discussion -- References -- 10 Moving across metaphorical space over developmental time -- Introduction -- How robust is the structuring of abstracts concepts in terms of spatial motion? -- How early do children think and talk about abstract concepts in terms of spatial motion? -- What explains developmental changes in children's metaphorical abilities? -- Discussion -- References -- 11 Conceptualisations of ruh 'spirit/soul' and jesm 'body' in Persian: A Sufi perspective -- Introduction -- Jesm and ruh in Persian -- Conceptualizations of the body in Sufism -- Conceptualizations of the Sufi spiritual path -- Neoplatonism and Sufism -- Concluding remarks -- References -- 12 Borobudur and Chartres: Religious spaces as performative real-space blends -- The power of material anchors in performativity -- Spatial alignment with the universe -- Structural blends and alignments in the buildings -- Moving through sacred spaces -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References.

13 Postscript to Sensuous Cognition: The language of the senses -- References -- Subject Index.