Diego Frank Marques Cavalcante

The zebrafish alarm response as embodied semiosis: An approach between enactivism and biosemiotics

PsyArXiv June 11, 2026 Thaeny Regina Ribeiro Rodrigues, Diego Frank Marques Cavalcante, Caio Maximino preprint

Mechanistic approaches in behavioral neuroscience often overlook the situated, embodied, and meaning‑generating dimensions of animal behavior. This paper builds a theoretical bridge between enactivism and biosemiotics – two frameworks that place sense‑making at the core of life – and grounds the synthesis in an empirical case: the alarm reaction of zebrafish (Danio rerio). The conspecific alarm...