The Brain\'s Body Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics

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heteronormativity, 14 – 15, 52 – 53, 95 – 99,
112, 114 – 17, 126, 139n19, 151n11
Heyes, Cecilia, 73, 84, 146n1
Hickok, Gregory, 14, 68, 73, 146n1
hippocampus: and memory, 29 – 30,
138n15; and sex, 138n17
Hird, Myra, 96, 98, 115, 131n19, 133n29
horses, and behavioral synchrony, 110
Hubel, David, 25 – 26
hypothalamus, 31, 100, 106


Iacoboni, Marco, 68, 71, 72, 73, 80, 83,
86 – 87, 129n6, 134n32
Insel, Tom, 103


James, William, 24, 40, 41 – 42, 47, 134n1,
141n26, 145n13
Johnson, Mark, 47 – 49, 55, 142n3, 147n7
Jordan- Young, Rebecca, 6, 23, 32,
130n10, 132n27, 138n17, 139n19


Keen, Suzanne, 84
Kemp, Andrew, 102
Keysers, Christian, 72
kinship: affective, 96, 98, 111, 116; bio-
logical theories of, 96 – 100, 103 – 4,
111 – 14; feminist and queer theories
of, 96 – 100, 115 – 17. See also maternal
brain theory; oxytocin and attach-
ment; oxytocin and pair bonds
Kirby, Vicki, 35, 131n19, 133n29
Kraus, Cynthia, 18, 19, 23, 140n20
Kuhn, Thomas, 120


lactation, 100, 105, 106, 107 – 10,
150nn8 – 9. See also breastfeeding
Lakoff, George, 48 – 49, 73 – 74, 83,
134n32, 142n3, 147n7
Latour, Bruno, 12, 22, 121, 133n28, 143n8
Levinas, Emmanuel, 93
Leys, Ruth, 11, 53, 68, 73, 122, 142n2
Lizardo, Omar, 9, 69, 85 – 86, 132nn25 – 26
localization thesis, 26 – 27, 120, 129n2


Longino, Helen, 46
long- term potentiation, 25, 136n5
Lorde, Audre, 53

Maguire, Eleanor, 29 – 30, 138nn15 – 16
Malabou, Catherine, 17, 18 – 20, 22, 121,
131n15, 132nn20 – 21, 132n26
Malafouris, Lambros, 21
Males, Michael, 27 – 28
Martin, Emily, 18, 56, 130n9, 131n14,
146n17
maternal body, 8. See also maternal
brain theory
maternal brain theory, 99, 104 – 8. See
also oxytocin: and attachment
memory: and dementia, 21; and
emotions, 4, 45, 89; and extended
cognition, 50; and learning, 17, 24,
44; and mirror neurons, 89; and oxy-
tocin, 14, 97, 101; spatial memory, 29,
138nn14 – 16; working, 38
Merzenich, Michael, 29, 137 – 38n13
Meyer, Kasper, 89, 146n1
mirror neurons, 67 – 93; and aesthetic
appreciation, 147 – 48n7; and affect
theory, 11, 14; and autism, 68, 82,
86 – 87; and embodied simulation,
14, 69, 73, 75 – 76, 78 – 87, 92, 125 – 26,
134n32, 147n7; and empathy, 14; and
memory, 89; and methodological
critiques, 146n1
Mol, Annmarie, 12, 129n5
monkeys: in mirror neuron research,
67; in neuroplasticity experiments,
29, 137 – 38nn12 – 13
monogamy, 98, 103 – 4, 111 – 14. See also
oxytocin: and pair bonds
Moreno, Jonathan, 18
Murphie, Andrew, 22, 25, 91, 136n6

Nelson, Katherine, 75, 82, 88
neomaterialism, 6, 10, 11, 60, 68,
131nn18 – 19, 132 – 33n27
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