Understanding Natural Cognition in Everyday Settings: 3 Pressing Challenges

Parada, Francisco J.

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2018.00386

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“…Furthermore, such ideas have challenged the understanding of cognitive states and with that, the methods employed to assess them (Ladouce et al, 2017 ; Shamay-Tsoory and Mendelsohn, 2019 ; Parada and Rossi, 2020 ). The implementation of these novel ideas as empirical work is still fledgling, as novel methods are developed (Ladouce et al, 2017 ; Shamay-Tsoory and Mendelsohn, 2019 ), innovative experimental designs suggested (Parada, 2018 ; Matusz et al, 2019 ; Shamay-Tsoory and Mendelsohn, 2019 ), and neurocognitive scientists begin to discuss the implications of both epistemic and methodological advancements in a more profound manner (De Jaegher et al, 2016 ; Krakauer et al, 2017 ; Parada and Rossi, 2018 , 2020 ; Buzsáki, 2020 ; Poeppel and Adolfi, 2020 ). The issues discussed above show that social support and cognition research is still in its infancy and could greatly benefit from these novel ideas.…”

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Social Support and Cognition: A Systematic Review

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Although the influence of social support in health is a widely acknowledged factor, there is a significant gap in the understanding of its role on cognition. The purpose of this systematic review was, therefore, to determine the state-of-the-art on the literature testing the association between social support and cognition. Using six databases (WoS, PubMed, ProQuest, PsycINFO, Scopus and EBSCOhost), we identified 22 articles published between 1999 and 2019 involving an empirical quantitative focus which meet the inclusion criteria. Data extraction was performed following PRISMA recommendations. To summarize the extracted data, we used a narrative synthesis approach. Despite limitations, there is overall preliminary evidence of a relevant positive association between social support and cognition. Our results demonstrate there is enough information for an outbreak of experimental research in the area and an expansion of this body of knowledge. We argue that the present evidence lays the foundations for a more comprehensive theoretical model, one that corresponds with the complexity of the topic and possibly considers models derived from social interaction and active inference theories.

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“…This modeling can be achieved through tools derived from network science and/or machine learning techniques (Vespignani, 2011;Boonstra et al, 2015;Sekara et al, 2016;Shine et al, 2016;Avena-Koenigsberger et al, 2017;Aguilera, 2018;Parada and Rossi, 2018). Furthermore, implementing scalable experimental paradigms (Parada, 2018;Matusz et al, 2019;Shamay-Tsoory and Mendelsohn, 2019) and generating novel hypotheses of interacting brain/body systems functioning during natural cognition (De Jaegher et al, 2010Di Paolo and De Jaegher, 2012;Gramann et al, 2014;Ladouce et al, 2017;Parada, 2018;Parada and Rossi, 2018) are among the most outstanding challenges for the 4E-cognition research program. We believe that the incorporation of a mechanistic framework facilitates meeting those challenges and advancing a deeper understanding of cognitive phenomena, social, and otherwise.…”

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Body-World Coupling, Sensorimotor Mechanisms, and the Ontogeny of Social Cognition

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Parada

2020

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When closely examined, several biological mechanisms reveal themselves as implementing a physical and dynamical two-way link or coupling between the organism and the world. In these cases, some mechanisms' components can either physically cross the body-world boundary or are brought by the organism's motor actions onto specific sensory surfaces. As with any biological phenomenon, the historical contingencies of these sensorimotor activities generate plastic changes within the organism, that in turn determine its capacities at any given time. Body-world coupling instances are evident in examples that we will describe later, such as breathing, sensori-motor activities, and others. In the present piece, we attempt to position social cognitive phenomena as the result of the mechanisms involved in the organism's coupling history with its world. This coupling constitutes one of the cornerstones of the so called 4E approach to cognition (Newen et al., 2018), from which we will also draw concepts and distinctions in our effort to relate coupling mechanisms with social phenomena. Even though reviewing the 4E approach to cognition escapes the scope of the present piece, we can briefly state that the 4E cognition framework wants to bring multiple approaches together under a sole emblem. It understands cognition as a natural phenomenon, embodied in the biophysics of the body which is embedded both phylo-and ontogenically into the animal's ecological niche. To the 4E approach, cognition is also opportunistic and promiscuous as can be extended toward the world with objects both material (e.g., technology) and conceptual (e.g., institutions). Finally, the 4E approach thinks cognition as intended for action in an ongoing interactional sense-making process; an enactive phenomenon. The 4E cognition framework owes its current form to several landmark work such as the "enactive approach" (Varela et al., 2017), the "distributed cognition branch of cognitive science" (Flor and Hutchins, 1991;Hutchins, 1995), and the "extended mind" proposal (Clark and Chalmers, 1998), among others.Despite decades of conceptual development of the 4E approach and its diverse subfields, there are many questions regarding its particular implications for neuroscience (e.g., how can neuroscientists can actually implement the 4E approach directly into their research agendas? Is one-person neuroscience necessary?, etc.) (Di Paolo and De Jaegher, 2012;Willems and Francken, 2012). As experimental neuroscientists interested in the interactional nature of cognition, we would like to extract the mechanistic implications of the 4E approach: components, activities, and processes (What?, How?, When?), their context (When?, How?) and their weights (How important?). Epistemologically, we concur with the view that conceives mechanisms as models of the phenomena to explain and consider the building of mechanistic models a fundamental explanatory aim of neuroscience (Craver, 2007). Without a mechanistic picture of the ways in which the 4Es constitute and/or affect cogniti...

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“…Achieving high ecological validity by recording EEG in mobile participants in the real world increased movement-related artifacts and variability in behavioral and cognitive strategies used to solve the task which. As a consequence, the high ecological validity renders the interpretation of the results more difficult (Parada, 2018).…”

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Eye-movement related brain potentials during assisted navigation in real-world

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Gramann

2020

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Funding informationPhD stipend to AW by Stiftung der deutschen Wirtschaft Conducting neuroscience research in the real world remains challenging because of movement-and environment-related artifacts as well as missing control over stimulus presentation. The present study demonstrated that it is possible to investigate the neuronal correlates underlying visuo-spatial information processing during real-world navigation. Using mobile EEG allowed for extraction of saccade-and blink-related potentials as well as gait-related EEG activity. In combination with source-based cleaning of non-brain activity and unfolding of overlapping event-related activity, brain activity of naturally behaving humans was revealed even in a complex and dynamic city environment. K E Y W O R D S natural cognition, mobile EEG, blink-related potentials, saccade-related potentials, gait artifacts

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Understanding Natural Cognition in Everyday Settings: 3 Pressing Challenges

Cited by 45 publications

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Social Support and Cognition: A Systematic Review

Social Support and Cognition: A Systematic Review

Body-World Coupling, Sensorimotor Mechanisms, and the Ontogeny of Social Cognition

Eye-movement related brain potentials during assisted navigation in real-world

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