Commentary: The embodied brain: towards a radical embodied cognitive neuroscience

Matyja, Jakub; Dołęga, Krzysztof

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00669

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“…Kiverstein and Miller ( 2015 ) have also recently emphasized that situated context and emotion knowledge play important roles in the development, processing, and retrieval of conceptual knowledge. Further, we assume that emotion knowledge is multidimensional.…”

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“…Some “failures” will be mild, some moderate, and some intense, and thus will be, on average, somewhat arousing (its arousal rating is 4.95). Kiverstein and Miller ( 2015 ) suggest that valence and arousal tap into basic and specific dimensions of emotion knowledge that can be abstracted across different situated contexts. Further, these are two important emotionality dimensions that are easily accessible to internal emotion systems evolutionarily designed to track basic and salient environmental features that may impact survival.…”

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“…We propose expanding what emotional experience may tap into in the following way. Kiverstein and Miller ( 2015 ) specifically emphasized that there are tight feedback links between cognition and emotion in conceptual processing, and as such the processing of emotion information is strongly associated with cognitive processes, such as reasoning, attention, memory, and planning. They stated that much neuroscience research suggests that there are “reciprocal interconnection[s] between cortical and subcortical structures” (p. 3), which allow for cognitive processes to influence affective processes and for affective processes to influence cognitive processes.…”

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Effects of Emotional Experience in Lexical Decision

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Previous research has examined the effects of emotional experience (i.e., the ease with which words evoke emotion information) in semantic categorization (SCT), word naming, and Stroop tasks (Newcombe et al., 2012; Siakaluk et al., 2014; Moffat et al., 2015). However, to date there are no published reports on whether emotional experience influences performance in the lexical decision task (LDT). In the present study, we examined the influence of emotional experience in LDT using three different stimulus sets. In Experiment 1 we used a stimulus set used by both Kousta et al. (2009; Experiment 1) and Yap and Seow (2014) that is comprised of 40 negative, 40 positive, and 40 neutral words; in Experiment 2 we used a stimulus set comprised of 150 abstract nouns; and in Experiment 3 we used a stimulus set comprised of 373 verbs. We observed facilitatory effects of emotional experience in each of the three experiments, such that words with higher emotional experience ratings were associated with faster response latencies. These results are important because the influence of emotional experience: (a) is observed in stimulus sets comprised of different types of words, demonstrating the generalizability of the effect in LDT; (b) accounts for LDT response latency variability above and beyond the influences of valence and arousal, and is thus a robust dimension of conceptual knowledge; (c) suggests that a richer representation of emotional experience provides more reliable evidence that a stimulus is a word, which facilitates responding in LDT; and (d) is consistent with grounded cognition frameworks that propose that emotion information may be grounded in bodily experience with the world (Barsalou, 2003, 2009; Vigliocco et al., 2009).

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“…So far, the most frequently cited empirical evidence for the embodiment thesis has been grounded in the observation that music perception automatically engages multi-sensory and motor simulation processes (Schiavio et al, 2015 ), or that bodily states and movement may influence music perception (Maes et al, 2014 ). In this article, we advocated for more rigorous evidence to substantiate the “radical” embodiment thesis in the domain of music perception and performance (Mahon and Caramazza, 2008 ; Chemero, 2011 ; Wilson and Golonka, 2013 ; Kiverstein and Miller, 2015 ). Therefore, we provided a focused review presenting empirical evidence and computer models demonstrating that music perception and performance may be directly determined by the acoustics of sound and by the natural disposition and dynamics of the human sensory and motor system.…”

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“…It is noteworthy that lately, the embodied approach becomes progressively extended from mere perception and cognition, to related areas of musical affect and emotion (Cochrane, 2010 ; Krueger, 2013 ), reward and motivation (Chanda and Levitin, 2013 ; Zatorre and Salimpoor, 2013 ), and social interaction (Moran, 2014 ; D'Ausilio et al, 2015 ). However, despite serious advances in the field, improvements could be made in order to further develop a “radical” embodiment thesis to music cognition and interaction, and maybe more important, to substantiate this thesis with empirical evidence (Mahon and Caramazza, 2008 ; Chemero, 2011 ; Wilson and Golonka, 2013 ; Kiverstein and Miller, 2015 ). The crux of the radical embodied cognition thesis is the view that music cognition emerges from the real-time interaction of modality-specific processes serving perceptual or sensorimotor functions in the brain, bodily states and dynamics, and environment.…”

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Sensorimotor Grounding of Musical Embodiment and the Role of Prediction: A Review

Maes

2016

Front. Psychol.

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In a previous article, we reviewed empirical evidence demonstrating action-based effects on music perception to substantiate the musical embodiment thesis (Maes et al., 2014). Evidence was largely based on studies demonstrating that music perception automatically engages motor processes, or that body states/movements influence music perception. Here, we argue that more rigorous evidence is needed before any decisive conclusion in favor of a “radical” musical embodiment thesis can be posited. In the current article, we provide a focused review of recent research to collect further evidence for the “radical” embodiment thesis that music perception is a dynamic process firmly rooted in the natural disposition of sounds and the human auditory and motor system. Though, we emphasize that, on top of these natural dispositions, long-term processes operate, rooted in repeated sensorimotor experiences and leading to learning, prediction, and error minimization. This approach sheds new light on the development of musical repertoires, and may refine our understanding of action-based effects on music perception as discussed in our previous article (Maes et al., 2014). Additionally, we discuss two of our recent empirical studies demonstrating that music performance relies on similar principles of sensorimotor dynamics and predictive processing.

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On Higher Order Computations and Synaptic Meta-Plasticity in the Human Brain

Ambroszkiewicz

2016

Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2016

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Glia modify neuronal connectivity by creating structural changes in the neuronal connectome. Glia also influence the functional connectome by modifying the flow of information through neural networks (Fields et al. 2015 [8]). There are strong experimental evidences that glia are responsible for synaptic meta-plasticity. Synaptic plasticity is the modification of the strength of connections between neurons. Meta-plasticity, i.e. plasticity of synaptic plasticity, may be viewed as mechanisms for dynamic reconfiguration of neural circuits. First order computations in the brain are done by static neural circuits, whereas higher order computations are done by dynamic reconfigurations of the links (synapses) between the neural circuits. Static neural circuits correspond to first order computable functions. Synapse creation correspond to the mathematical notion of function composition. Functionals are higher order functions that take functions as their arguments. The construction of functionals is based on dynamic reconfigurations of the function composition. Perhaps the functionals correspond to the meta-plasticity in the human brain.

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Commentary: The embodied brain: towards a radical embodied cognitive neuroscience

Cited by 4 publications

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Effects of Emotional Experience in Lexical Decision

Effects of Emotional Experience in Lexical Decision

Sensorimotor Grounding of Musical Embodiment and the Role of Prediction: A Review

On Higher Order Computations and Synaptic Meta-Plasticity in the Human Brain

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