- The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition
- List of Contributors
- 4E Cognition: Historical Roots, Key Concepts, and Central Issues
- Extended Cognition
- Ecological-Enactive Cognition as engaging with a field of relevant affordances: The Skilled Intentionality Framework (SIF)
- The Enactive Conception of Life
- Going Radical
- Critical Note: So, What Again is 4E Cognition?
- The Predictive Processing Hypothesis
- Interacting in the Open: Where Dynamical Systems Become Extended and Embodied
- Searching for the conditions of genuine intersubjectivity: From Agent-Based Models to Perceptual Crossing Experiments
- Cognitive Integration: How Culture Transforms Us and Extends Our Cognitive Capabilities
- Critical Note: Cognitive Systems and the Dynamics of Representing-in-the-World
- The Body in Action: Predictive Processing and the Embodiment Thesis
- Joint Action and 4E Cognition
- Perception, Exploration, and the Primacy of Touch
- Direct Social Perception
- Critical Note: Cognition, Action, and Self-Control from the 4E Perspective
- Disclosing the World: Intentionality and 4E Cognition
- Building a stronger concept of embodiment
- Motor intentionality
- The Extended Body Hypothesis: Referred Sensations from Tools to Peripersonal Space
- Critical Note: Brain–Body–Environment Couplings. What Do they Teach us about Cognition?
- Embodied Resonance
- Why Engagement?: A Second-Person Take on Social Cognition
- The intersubjective turn
- The Person Model Theory and the Question of Situatedness of Social Understanding
- False-Belief Understanding, 4E Cognition, and Predictive Processing
- Critical Note: How Revisionary are 4E Accounts of Social Cognition?
- Embodiment of emotion and its situated nature
- Thinking and feeling: A Social-Developmental Perspective
- Enacting affectivity
- Beyond Mirroring: 4E Perspectives on Empathy
- Critical Note: 3E’s Are Sufficient, But Don’t Forget the D
- The Embodiment of Language
- The Embodiment of Concepts: Theoretical Perspectives and the Role of Predictive Processing
- Origins and complexities of infant communication and social cognition
- Developing an understanding of normativity
- Critical Note: Language and Learning from the 4E Perspective
- The Evolution of Cognition: A 4E Perspective
- Mindshaping
- Bringing things to mind: 4Es and Material Engagement
- Culture and the Extended Phenotype: Cognition and Material Culture in Deep Time
- Critical Note: Evolution of Human Cognition. Temporal Dynamics at Biological and Historical Time Scales
- Communication as Fundamental Paradigm for Psychopathology
- Scaffolding Intuitive Rationality
- Robots as powerful allies for the study of embodied cognition from the bottom up
- Interpersonal judgments, embodied reasoning, and juridical legitimacy
- 4E Cognition and the Humanities
- Embodied Aesthetics
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Abstract and Keywords
If cognition is fundamentally interactive how did it come to be so? The cognitive integration framework provides an answer: phylogenetically early forms of cognition, in humans, involve sensorimotor interactions with the environment; these are built upon by more recent cultural innovations, which are a product of cultural evolution and niche construction. The key cultural innovations are symbolic representations and the normative cognitive practices that govern their manipulation. These representational systems and cognitive practices are preserved across generations by cultural inheritance. Phylogenetically early sensorimotor capacities for making and manipulating tools can be reused to create and manipulate representations when completing cognitive tasks. Reuse depends upon neural plasticity and social learning, which results in the transformation of our cognitive capacities. The chapter also provides a dimensional analysis of integrated cognitive systems and provides responses to recent criticisms.
Keywords: cognitive integration, cultural evolution, cognitive practices, neural plasticity, social learning, cultural inheritance, symbolic representations, sensorimotor capacities, niche construction, integrated cognitive systems, reuse, transformation
Richard Menary Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition
- List of Contributors
- 4E Cognition: Historical Roots, Key Concepts, and Central Issues
- Extended Cognition
- Ecological-Enactive Cognition as engaging with a field of relevant affordances: The Skilled Intentionality Framework (SIF)
- The Enactive Conception of Life
- Going Radical
- Critical Note: So, What Again is 4E Cognition?
- The Predictive Processing Hypothesis
- Interacting in the Open: Where Dynamical Systems Become Extended and Embodied
- Searching for the conditions of genuine intersubjectivity: From Agent-Based Models to Perceptual Crossing Experiments
- Cognitive Integration: How Culture Transforms Us and Extends Our Cognitive Capabilities
- Critical Note: Cognitive Systems and the Dynamics of Representing-in-the-World
- The Body in Action: Predictive Processing and the Embodiment Thesis
- Joint Action and 4E Cognition
- Perception, Exploration, and the Primacy of Touch
- Direct Social Perception
- Critical Note: Cognition, Action, and Self-Control from the 4E Perspective
- Disclosing the World: Intentionality and 4E Cognition
- Building a stronger concept of embodiment
- Motor intentionality
- The Extended Body Hypothesis: Referred Sensations from Tools to Peripersonal Space
- Critical Note: Brain–Body–Environment Couplings. What Do they Teach us about Cognition?
- Embodied Resonance
- Why Engagement?: A Second-Person Take on Social Cognition
- The intersubjective turn
- The Person Model Theory and the Question of Situatedness of Social Understanding
- False-Belief Understanding, 4E Cognition, and Predictive Processing
- Critical Note: How Revisionary are 4E Accounts of Social Cognition?
- Embodiment of emotion and its situated nature
- Thinking and feeling: A Social-Developmental Perspective
- Enacting affectivity
- Beyond Mirroring: 4E Perspectives on Empathy
- Critical Note: 3E’s Are Sufficient, But Don’t Forget the D
- The Embodiment of Language
- The Embodiment of Concepts: Theoretical Perspectives and the Role of Predictive Processing
- Origins and complexities of infant communication and social cognition
- Developing an understanding of normativity
- Critical Note: Language and Learning from the 4E Perspective
- The Evolution of Cognition: A 4E Perspective
- Mindshaping
- Bringing things to mind: 4Es and Material Engagement
- Culture and the Extended Phenotype: Cognition and Material Culture in Deep Time
- Critical Note: Evolution of Human Cognition. Temporal Dynamics at Biological and Historical Time Scales
- Communication as Fundamental Paradigm for Psychopathology
- Scaffolding Intuitive Rationality
- Robots as powerful allies for the study of embodied cognition from the bottom up
- Interpersonal judgments, embodied reasoning, and juridical legitimacy
- 4E Cognition and the Humanities
- Embodied Aesthetics
- Name Index
- Subject Index
