Enactive neuroscience, the direct perception hypothesis, and the socially extended mind.
The Behavioral and brain sciences 2015 DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x14000892 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Citations | 14 |
| Key points | Argues that Pessoa's integrative neuroscience and enactivism converge on complexity, tight integration of perception, cognition, and emotion, and the spatial extension of mental processes beyond specific brain regions, pointing to an emerging enactive neuroscience. |
Abstract
Pessoa's The Cognitive-Emotional Brain (2013) is an integrative approach to neuroscience that complements other developments in cognitive science, especially enactivism. Both accept complexity as essential to mind; both tightly integrate perception, cognition, and emotion, which enactivism unifies in its foundational concept of sense-making; and both emphasize that the spatial extension of mental processes is not reducible to specific brain regions and neuroanatomical connectivity. An enactive neuroscience is emerging.