“…The embodied emotion thesis, in particular, is fueled by studies suggesting that emotional episodes are partially composed of perceptual, motoric, autonomic, and somatovisceral processes—a range of bodily components at work beyond the brain (for overviews, see Colombetti, ; Damasio, ; Kever, Grynberg, Bayot, & Vermeulen, ; Laird, ; Niedenthal, ). Recent debates have also focused on how emotional appraisal —at one time thought to be a distinctively cognitive component (Solomon, )—depends on extra‐neural bodily processes (Barlassina & Newen, ; Colombetti, ; Maiese, ).…”