Frontiers in Psychology
2022
Christian Kronsted, Sean Kugele, Zachariah A Neemeh et al.
7 citations
Much of our everyday, embodied action comes in the form of smooth coping. Smooth coping is skillful action that has become habituated and ingrained, generally placing less stress on cognitive load than considered and deliberative thought and action. When performed with skill and expertise, walking, driving, skiing, musical performances, and short-order cooking are all examples of the...
Frontiers in Psychology
2020
Kevin J Ryan, Shaun Gallagher
61 citations
Ecological psychologists and enactivists agree that the best explanation for a large share of cognition is non-representational in kind. In both ecological psychology and enactivist philosophy, then, the task is to offer an explanans that does not rely on representations. Different theorists within these camps have contrasting notions of what the best kind of non-representational explanation...
December 1, 2019
Kevin J Ryan, A. Schiavio
Abstract The conceptual resources of ‘4E’ music cognition – i.e. the embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive paradigms – have offered a rich set of tools to explore the nature of musical experience. Among these four approaches, the extended mind perspective has heretofore received less overall attention. In this paper we focus on further developing the musically extended mind - especially in...
November 27, 2014
Kevin J Ryan
THIS issue, broken into two volumes (Vol. 9, No. 3-4, 2014), offers a unique contribution to contemporary research on embodied approaches to music perception and related phenomenon. While the role of the body has often been acknowledged in a variety of disciplinary contexts, particularly in the domain of music performance, the 4E movement in cognitive science – i.e. interrelated paradigms that...