title: Enactive neuroscience, the direct perception hypothesis, and the socially extended mind.
abstract: Pessoa's The Cognitive-Emotional Brain (2013) is an integrative approach to neuroscience that complements other developments in cognitive science, especially enactivism. Both accept complexity as essential to mind; both tightly integrate perception, cognition, and emotion, which enactivism unifies in its foundational concept of sense-making; and both emphasize that the spatial extension of mental processes is not reducible to specific brain regions and neuroanatomical connectivity. An enactive neuroscience is emerging.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación,Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,DF 04510,Mexico;Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,DF 04510,Mexico.t.froese@gmail.comhttp://froese.wordpress.com.
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Froese
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D019336:Cognitive Science; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D009488:Neurosciences; D010465:Perception