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The cognitive-emotional brain is an embodied and social brain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2015

Julian Kiverstein  and
Mark Miller
Julian Kiverstein
Affiliation:
Institute of Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, 1012GC Amsterdam, The Netherlands. j.d.kiverstein@uva.nl http://www.illc.uva.nl
Mark Miller
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AD, Scotland. nomad23@gmail.com http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/
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Abstract

Pessoa (2013) makes a compelling case for conceiving of emotion and cognition as deeply integrated processes in the brain. We will begin our commentary by asking what implications this view of the brain has for an ontology of cognition – a theory of what cognition is and what cognitive processes exist. We will suggest that Pessoa's book, The Cognitive-Emotional Brain, provides strong support for an embodied theory of cognition. We end our commentary by offering some speculation about how Pessoa's arguments naturally extend to social cognition.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e78
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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