Mckall, Terence2014-02-142014-02-1420142014-02-14http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5181In this thesis, the author explores the connections between developments in the fields of neuroscience and neuropsychology and the theoretical study of embodiment in political and literary theory. Through examination of the development of neuroscience and its interactions with theoretical approaches to embodiment, the author argues that the current approach to interdisciplinary work in the area is limited by entrenched disciplinary boundaries. Examining how these disciplinary boundaries limit the scope of the study of cognition and embodiment presents the necessity of a new approach. Based in the work of Elizabeth A. Wilson and David Wills, the author presents a new approach, the embodied cognitive approach, as an alternative interdisciplinary approach.enneuroscienceneuropsychologyembodimentcognitionThesisAvailable to the World Wide Web