Walter Freeman (http://sulcus.berkeley.edu/) is very prominent within the neurodynamics world, but is perhaps not as well known to the neurophenomenology and emobodied cognition communities as he should be. This is possibly because of the forebodingly technical nature of the physics concepts he employs. He told me at a conference some years ago that his views [...]
July 26, 2009
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: dynamics, EEG, neurodynamics, Walter Freeman . Author: neuronoid . Comments: Leave a Comment
Models of how people are able to access physiological state information should take into account a long-running divide in cognitive neuroscience about to what extent explanations, models, and purported mechanisms privilege local, reductionistic, and/or modular theories, as opposed to global and holistic theories that emphasize connectedness with and interdependence of particular systems to the entire [...]
June 25, 2009
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: body knowledge, cingular cortex, cortex, dynamics, embodied cognition, globalist theories, insula, insular cortex, interoception, localizationist theories, modularism, neurodynamics, neurophysiology, orbitofrontal cortex, physiological state information, representationalist theories, S1, somatosensory cortex, visceral perception, Walter Freeman . Author: neuronoid . Comments: Leave a Comment