The representation of the environment assumes the encoding of four basic dimensions in the brain, that is the 3D space and time. The vital role of time for cognition is a topic that recently attracted increasing research interest. Surprisingly, the scientific community investigating mind-time interactions has mainly focused on interval timing, paying less attention on the encoding and processin...

Two aspects of cognitive coupling, as brought forward in the Extended Mind Hypothesis, are discussed in this paper: (1) how shall the functional coupling between the organism and some entity in his environment be spelled out in detail? (2) What are the paradigmatic external entities to enter into that coupling? These two related questions are best answered in the light of an aetiological variet...

Abstract Research in evolutionary biology and philosophy of cognition strongly suggests that human organisms modify their environment through active processes niche construction. Recently, proponents the free-energy principle variational inference have argued approach can deepen our understanding reciprocal causal relationship between on various scales. This paper examines feasibility scope for...

Two strands of recent embodied theorizing about cognition that are commonly held to be in harmony are actually in tension. This tension arises, in part, from the different ways in which the two positions in question — the extended mind hypothesis (EMH) and enactivism — conceive of the relationship between life and mind. The history of enactivist ideas, plus a recent presentation of the view by ...

Money is a fundamental and ubiquitous institution in modern economies. It has the distinctive characteristic of being at same time complex social phenomenon very easily manipulated object everyday life. By bringing together works carried out both cognitive sciences philosophy mind, while continuing certain classical authors’ ideas, this article proposes to conceive money as whose study would an...

The hypothesis of extended cognition (HEC) claims that the cognitive processes materially realise thinking are sometimes partially constituted by entities located external to an agent’s body in its local environment. We show how proponents HEC need not claim agent must have a central nervous system, or physically instantiate organised such way as play causal role equivalent brain if is be capab...

(2014) The thinking hand: Embodiment of tool use, social cognition and metaphorical thinking and implications for learning design. Introduction In this paper we present an evolutionary and embodied account for the co-emergence of diverse skills central to our thinking and discuss implications for learning design. Our goal is to provide a connected picture for embodied cognition that spans acros...

1 This is an extended version of a paper that appeared in the Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), and 8th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), in Thessaloniki, Greece, on July 2328, 2012, pp. 1001–1008, under the title: “The pairwise variability index as a tool in musical rhythm analysis.”

We report a case of early-onset dementia with subclinical seizures. Aggressive seizure control improved the patient's cognition. Commonly, an EEG is only performed following overt behavioral seizures. Therefore, subclinical seizures tend to be underdiagnosed. Serial or extended EEG should be seriously considered in patients with early-onset dementia.

Ebola survivors (21/27 [77.8%]) suffered more disability than their close contacts (6/54 [11.1%]) (adjusted odds ratio, 23.5 [95% confidence interval, 6.5-85.7]; P < .001) when measured by the Washington Group Disability Extended Questionnaire. Major limitations in vision, mobility, cognition, and affect were observed in survivors 1 year following the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak, highlighting the ...