The cognitive emotional brain is an embodied and social brain

Authors
Publication date 2015
Journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Article number e78
Volume | Issue number 38
Number of pages 3
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract Pessoa (2013) makes a compelling case for conceiving of emotion and cognition as deeply integrated processes in the brain. We will begin our commentary by asking what implications this view of the brain has for an ontology of cognition – a theory of what cognition is and what cognitive processes exist. We will suggest that Pessoa's book, The Cognitive-Emotional Brain, provides strong support for an embodied theory of cognition. We end our commentary by offering some speculation about how Pessoa's arguments naturally extend to social cognition.
Document type Comment/Letter to the editor
Note Open Peer Commentary on: L. Pesso (2015). Précis on The Cognitive-Emotional Brain. In : Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 38:e71
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X14000922
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