Measuring brain activity simultaneously from two people interacting is intuitively appealing if
one is interested in putative neural markers of social interaction. However, given the …

Knowing who we are, and where we are, are two fundamental aspects of our physical and
mental experience. Although the domains of spatial and social cognition are often studied …

In this article, I sketch an enactive account of autism. For the enactive approach to cognition,
embodiment, experience, and social interaction are fundamental to understanding mind and …

As yet, there is no enactive account of social cognition. This paper extends the enactive
concept of sense-making into the social domain. It takes as its departure point the process of …

Current theories of social cognition are mainly based on a representationalist view.
Moreover, they focus on a rather sophisticated and limited aspect of understanding others, ie …

This article addresses basic aspects of social cognition focusing on the pivotal role played
by the lived body in the constitution of our experience of others. It is suggested that before …

There is an underlying assumption in the social sciences that consciousness and social life
are ultimately classical physical/material phenomena. In this ground-breaking book …

Almost two decades since the publication of The Embodied Mind (Varela, Thompson, and
Rosch 1991), the term enactive has moved out of relative obscurity to become a fashionable …

Enactive approaches foreground the role of interpersonal interaction in explanations of
social understanding. This motivates, in combination with a recent interest in neuroscientific …

There is a small but growing community of researchers spanning a spectrum of disciplines
which are united in rejecting the still dominant computationalist paradigm in favor of the …