Action, Perception and the Brain [electronic resource] : Adaptation and Cephalic Expression /
Schulkin, J.editor.
Theories of brain evolution stress communication and sociality are essential to our capacity to represent objects as intersubjectively accessible. How did we grow as a species to be able to recognize objects as common, as that which can also be seen in much the same way by others? Such constitution of intersubjectively accessible objects is bound up with our flexible and sophisticated capacities for social cognition understanding others and their desires, intentions, emotions, and moods which are crucial to the way human beings live. This book is about contemporary philosophical and neuroscientific perspectives on the relation of action, perception, and cognition as it is lived in embodied and socially embedded experience. This emphasis on embodiment and embeddedness is a change from traditional theories, which focused on isolated, representational, and conceptual cognition. In the new perspectives contained in our book, such 'pure' cognition is thought to be under-girded and interpenetrated by embodied and embedded processes.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface; List of Contributors; Series Editors' Foreword; Introduction; 1 The Slow Process: A Hypothetical Cognitive Adaptation for Distributed Cognitive Networks; 2 Social Cognition and Cortical Function: An Evolutionary Perspective; 3 Homo Heuristicus and the Bias-Variance Dilemma; 4 Action, Embodied Meaning, and Thought; 5 Neo-Pragmatism and Enactive Intentionality; 6 Minds, Things, and Materiality; 7 Contributions of Mirror Mechanisms to the Embodiment of Cognition
8 The Neural Systems Involved in Motor Cognition and Social Contact9 Action and Cephalic Expression: Hermeneutical Pragmatism; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theories of brain evolution stress communication and sociality are essential to our capacity to represent objects as intersubjectively accessible. How did we grow as a species to be able to recognize objects as common, as that which can also be seen in much the same way by others? Such constitution of intersubjectively accessible objects is bound up with our flexible and sophisticated capacities for social cognition understanding others and their desires, intentions, emotions, and moods which are crucial to the way human beings live. This book is about contemporary philosophical and neuroscientific perspectives on the relation of action, perception, and cognition as it is lived in embodied and socially embedded experience. This emphasis on embodiment and embeddedness is a change from traditional theories, which focused on isolated, representational, and conceptual cognition. In the new perspectives contained in our book, such 'pure' cognition is thought to be under-girded and interpenetrated by embodied and embedded processes.
Philosophy of mind.
Cognitive psychology.
Neuropsychology.
Philosophy of Mind.
Cognitive Psychology.
Neuropsychology.