Enactive neuroscience, the direct perception hypothesis, and the socially extended mind.
The Behavioral and brain sciences January 1, 2015 DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x14000892 via PubMed
Summary
AI-generated from the abstractPessoa's The Cognitive-Emotional Brain (2013) offers an integrative neuroscience approach that aligns with enactivism, a cognitive science framework. Both perspectives treat complexity as central to mind and tightly link perception, cognition, and emotion—enactivism does so through its core concept of sense-making. They also argue that mental processes extend spatially beyond specific brain regions and neuroanatomical connections. An enactive neuroscience is now developing.
Study at a glance
| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Citations | 14 |
| Key finding | Pessoa's integrative neuroscience and enactivism both view complexity as essential to mind, tightly integrate perception, cognition, and emotion, and argue that mental processes extend spatially beyond specific brain regions. |
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.