Abstract
Commentary: The Embodied Brain: Towards a Radical Embodied Cognitive Neuroscience
Highlights
There is a tension between the embodied approach to cognition (e.g., Varela et al, 1991; Anderson, 2003; Wilson and Foglia, 2011; Myachykov et al, 2014) and the neurocentric way of thinking
Context-dependency is an important feature of cognition, but it’s not enough for ECN, and it could be endorsed by a more traditional cognitive neuroscience
1K&M focus on emotion and cognition, but in this commentary I reduce this to the problem of embodied cognition in general
Summary
There is a tension between the embodied approach to cognition (e.g., Varela et al, 1991; Anderson, 2003; Wilson and Foglia, 2011; Myachykov et al, 2014) and the neurocentric way of thinking. The embodied brain: toward a radical embodied cognitive neuroscience by Kiverstein, J., and Miller, M. 2. In the brain, emotional, and cognitive processes are tightly interconnected. This argument appeals to neuroscience [mainly Pessoa (2014) and Anderson (2014)] to argue for embodiment of cognition1, not for embodied neuroscience.
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