Building on both cognitive semantics and enactivist approaches to cognition, we explore the
concept of enactive metaphor and its implications for learning. Enactive approaches to …

Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers
viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the …

In this paper, we argue for a theoretical separation of the free-energy principle from
Helmholtzian accounts of the predictive brain. The free-energy principle is a theoretical …

Pain is a protective strategy, which emerges from on-going interaction between body and
world. However, pain is often thought of as a unitary output—an end product experienced as …

This book presents a study of the various feelings of awe and wonder experienced by
astronauts during space flight. It summarizes the results of two experimental …

What is musical time? Where is it manifested? How does it enter into our experience, and
how do we capture it in our analyses? A compelling approach among works on temporality …

Over the last few years, the efforts to reveal through neuroscientific lens the relations
between the mind, body, and built environment have set a promising direction of using …

Neural reuse is a form of neuroplasticity whereby neural elements originally developed for
one purpose are put to multiple uses. A diverse behavioral repertoire is achieved by means …

Musical Sense-Making: Enaction, Experience, and Computation broadens the scope of
musical sense-making from a disembodied cognitivist approach to an experiential approach …

Globally, mental and musculoskeletal disorders present with high prevalence, disease
burden, and comorbidity. In order to improve the quality of care for patients with persistent …