Contextual Cognition

Interoception Primes Emotional Processing: Multimodal Evidence from Neurodegeneration

“…These results carry theoretical and clinical implications. Our findings may support theoretical accounts of functional synergies between both domains ( Garfinkel and Critchley, 2016 ; Seth and Friston, 2016 ; Owens et al, 2018 ; Pace-Schott et al, 2019 ), supporting models of cognitive blending ( Ibáñez and Manes, 2012 ; Baez et al, 2017 ; Ibáñez et al, 2017 ; Ibáñez, 2018 , 2019 ; Ibáñez and García, 2018 ; Ibáñez and Schulte, 2020 ). From an embodied perspective, since emotional processing is partly modulated by the perception on visceral information, understanding the integration of these multimodal signals could prove critical for patients' successful allostasis; that is, efficient preparation of physiological need and internal states relative to the context ( Sterling, 2014 ; Kleckner et al, 2017 ).…”

Commentary: Cerebellar atrophy and its contribution to cognition in frontotemporal dementias

“…Similarly, except for research on ataxia, systematic assessments of regional, and network-level alterations involving the cerebellum are wanting in the field. This counterproductive neglect, we believe, stems from a dissociation between dementia studies and current neurocognitive theories (Ibáñez and García, 2018 ).…”

“…First, they underscore the need to systematically report cerebellar involvement in diverse neurocognitive deficits. Also, they provide a profitable platform to track intercognitive phenomena—enactive synergies among varied psychobiological (dys)functions—from a network-based perspective (Koziol et al, 2012 ; Ibanez et al, 2014 , 2018 ; García and Ibáñez, 2016 ; Birba et al, 2017 ; García et al, 2017 ; Cervetto et al, 2018 ; Ibáñez and García, 2018 ). Moreover, they promote a reinterpretation of symptoms from an action-grounded neurocognitive rationale (Krakauer et al, 2017 ).…”

A Brain Capital Grand Strategy: toward economic reimagination

“…The Brain Capital model encourages employers to cultivate the cognitive capacity of their employees by optimizing employee brain health and emphasizes an international partnership of business and science to develop actionable brain health care [16]. Brain Capital was originally conceptualized to break down siloes between academia and the business sector recognizing that the reductionistic approach to mental illness has largely failed, and that the brain is an embodied organ within biological, social, cultural, ecological, and economic contexts [17][18][19][20]. The brain is best understood by transdisciplinary thinking, which seeks to integrate perspectives from genes, environment, culture, brain, body, mind, and economics [21].…”