Amy Cook is an Associate Professor in the Theatre Arts and English departments at Stony Brook University. She specializes in the intersection of cognitive science and theories of performance, and she is the author of “Shakespearean Neuroplay: Reinvigorating the Study of Dramatic Texts and Performance Through Cognitive Science” (2010). She has an essay in the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater, and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition. She is the co-editor, with Rhonda Blair, of the forthcoming “Languages, Bodies and Ecologies: Theatre, Performance and Cognition.”