Contextual Cognition - The Sensus Communis of a Situated Mind

This Brief introduces two empirically grounded models of situated mental phenomena: contextual social cognition (the collection of psychological processes underlying context-dependent social behavior) and action-language coupling (the integration of ongoing actions with movement-related verbal information). It combines behavioral, neuroscientific, and neuropsychiatric perspectives to forge a novel view of contextual influences on active, multi-domain processes. Chapters highlight the models' translational potential for the clinical field by focusing on diseases compromising social cognition (mainly illustrated by behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia) and motor skills (crucially, Parkinson's disease). A final chapter sets forth metatheoretical considerations regarding intercognition, the constant binding of processes triggered by environmental and body-internal sources, which confers a sensus communis to our experience. In addition, the book includes two commentaries written by external peers pondering on advantages and limits of the proposal.
Contextual Cognition will be of interest to students, teachers, and researchers from the fields of cognitive science, neurology, psychiatry, neuroscience, psychology, behavioral science, linguistics, and philosophy.

List of contents

Chapter 1. With Context in Mind, With Mind in Context.- Chapter 2. Context as a Determinant of Interpersonal Processes: The Social Context Network Model.- Chapter 3. Context as Inter-Domain Effects: The Hand-Action-Network Dynamic Language Embodiment Model.- Chapter 4. The Forest Behind (and Beyond) the Trees.- Commentary 1: Sensus Communis in Research and Application.- Commentary 2: Thoughts on the  Contextual Cognition: Another Déjà vu.- Commentary 3: Quining Neuroscience and Psychology? Pseudoexplanations and Misunderstandings from Antiquantitative Theoretical Historicism. 

Product details

• Authors: Adolfo M. García, Agustín Ibáñez
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.06.2018
• EAN: 9783319772844
• ISBN: 978-3-31-977284-4
• No. of pages: 117
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 10 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 244 g
• Illustrations: XXIII, 117 p. 19 illus. in color.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology; SpringerBriefs in Theoretical Advances in Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; C, Neurowissenschaften, Philosophie des Geistes, Experimentelle Psychologie, Psycholinguistik und Kognitive Linguistik, Biopsychologie, Physiologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie, Philosophy of Mind, Neuroscience, Experimental Psychology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Neurosciences, Behavioral Science and Psychology, Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics, Psycholinguistics, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, Psychology, Experimental