Topic
Embodied mind research, explained
5 open-access embodied mind studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- What do mind-body therapies share?
Mehling and colleagues treat body awareness as a phenomenological, modifiable take on proprioception and interoception — the common ground of yoga, Feldenkrais, mindfulness and related practices.
- Predictive processing from cognitivism to autopoiesis
Active inference under the free-energy principle is enactive and embodied, unlike modular comparator models.
- Nested Markov blankets beyond internalism
Cognitive boundaries are multiple nested Markov blankets; brain, body, and world are not uniquely privileged.
- Is the self lost in dementia?
If personhood is primarily bodily selfhood and implicit memory, dementia disturbs reflective meta-perspective without erasing the self-as-subject.
- General ecological information for higher cognition
Non-lawful regularities in a form of life support skilled engagement with distant, socio-cultural affordances.