Introduction There are increasing recommendations to use the biopsychosocial model
(BPSM) as a guide for musculoskeletal research and practice. However, there is a wide …

Abstract Models of consciousness aim to inspire new experimental protocols and aid
interpretation of empirical evidence to reveal the structure of conscious experience …

This book presents the background to the current shift in language education towards action-
oriented/action-based teaching, and provides a theorization of the Action-oriented Approach …

Just over 25 years ago, Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch published
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (TEM). An ambitious …

What is phenomenology? This chapter addresses this question by reviewing some classic
definitions and then by looking briefly at the historical development of phenomenology …

Ecological Psychology is an embodied, situated, and non-representational approach
pioneered by JJ Gibson and EJ Gibson. This theory aims to offer a third way beyond …

We propose a new conceptualization of pain by incorporating advancements made by
phenomenologists and cognitive scientists. The biomedical understanding of pain is …

Radical embodied cognitive science is split into two camps: the ecological approach and the
enactive approach. We propose that these two approaches can be brought together into a …

In recent years, the societal and personal impacts of pain, and the fact that we still lack an
effective method of treatment, has motivated researchers from diverse disciplines to try to …

In spite of the spark that plurilingualism has given throughout Europe and beyond to the idea
that linguistic and cultural diversity is an asset rather than an obstacle, the term …