Worlding the brain : : neurocentrism, cognition and the challenge of the arts and humanities / / edited by Stephan Besser and Flora.

• Superior document: Experimental Practices Series ; v.3
• TeilnehmendeR: Besser, Stephan,; Lysen, Flora Christine,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Experimental Practices Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Moving beyond the neurohype of recent decades, this book introduces the concept of worlding as a new way to understand the inherent entanglement of brains/minds with their worldly environments, cultural practices, and social contexts. Case studies ranging from film, literature, music, and dance to pedagogy, historical trauma, and present-day discourses of mindfulness investigate how brains are worlded in an active interplay of biological, cognitive, and socio-discursive factors. Combining scholarly work with personal accounts of neurodiversity and essays by artists reflecting on their practical engagement with cognition, Worlding the Brain makes a case for the distinctive role of the humanities and arts in the study of brains and cognition and explores novel forms interdisciplinarity-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Together again, Apart -- 1 The Brain and the World -- 2 Worlding -- 3 Interdiscipinarity and Bricolage -- 4 Volume Overview -- Part 1 Worlded Brains -- 1 "Worlding" the Brain through the Cultural Practice of Rhetorical memoria -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Rhetorical memoria in a Classroom Setting -- 3 Rhetorical memoria in the Rhetorica ad Herennium -- 4 Rhetorical memoria in the Context of Neuro-Cognitive Memory Studies -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- 2 The Mediated Brain -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Embodied Enculturation -- 3 Media Ecologies and Film Form -- 4 From Marks on a Surface to Cinematographic Spectatorship -- 5 Embodying the Camera? Alfred Hitchock's Notorious -- 6 More Is Needed: Notorious Revisited -- 7 Advocating Studies on Neuromediality -- 8 Twofoldness and Expanding the Motor Equation -- 9 Conclusion and Outlook -- 3 Getting a Kick out of Film -- 1 Introduction -- 2 On Being a Predictive Machine -- 3 Enjoying Surprise: Error Dynamics and Aesthetic Pleasure -- 4 (Horror) Films as Tools of Prediction -- 5 Films, Aesthetic Chills, and Optimization -- 6 Conclusion -- 4 Transgenerational Trauma and Worlded Brains -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Post-Traumatic Stress: from War Victimization to Indirect Traumatization -- 3 Inter- and Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma in Post-Holocaust and Other Contexts -- 4 Transgenerational Trauma in Post-Slavery Contexts -- 5 Causal Pluralism in Indirect Traumatization -- 5.1 Epigenetics as a Constitutive Factor in Trauma Transmission -- 5.2 Historical Trauma as a Contextual Factor in Indirect Traumatization -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgements -- 5 Beworldered -- 1 A Phenomenological Approach -- 2 Hirn: Leib nor Körper -- 3 De-Worlded -- 4 Disappearances -- 5 Beworldered -- 6 Pedagogy and Neurodiversity.

1 A Critique on the Typical Model of the Classroom -- 2 The Movement of Neurodiversity and the Experiential Dimension: Bottom-Up? -- 3 Autistic Perception and Processes of Sense Making as More-Than Reflection -- 4 The Classroom Experiment Called spazze and Its Neurodiverse Pedagogy -- Part 2 Narrative Entanglements -- 7 Personification as Élanification -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Personification as Agency Combustion -- 3 Élanification and the Worlding of Semiospheres: Biomorphism, Zoomorphism, Anthropomorphism, and Personification -- 4 Prompters and Narrative Percolation in Worlding Perceived Relations -- 5 Between Aliveness and Indifference: towards a Theory of Élanification -- 8 Cognitive Formalism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Misreadings -- 3 Algorithmic Narratives -- 4 Cognitive Formalism -- Acknowledgments -- 9 "Watchman, What of the Night?" -- 1 Uncertainty, Prediction, and the "Designer Environment" of the Text -- 2 Conceptual Confusion, Unresolved Errors, and the Affordance Structure of the Text -- 3 Uncertainty as Literary Affordance -- 10 The Unfolding Now -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Autonarration -- 3 Intersubjective Narration -- 4 Neurocinematic Findings about Narrative Experience -- 5 Intersubject Correlation -- 6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Part 3 Figuring the Brain -- 11 Set and Setting of the Brain on Hallucinogen -- 1 Introduction: the Psychedelic Renaissance -- 2 Collective Set and Setting of the Hippie Exploitation Film and the Acid Western -- 3 Blowing up Hollywood: The Last Movie's Hallucinatory Sexism and Racism -- 4 Blueberry's Ayahuasca Gold Rush and the "Western" Quest for Shamanic Healing -- 5 Shooting Back and Collective Action in Psychotropic Western Bacurau -- 6 The Weird and the Disturbing in the Psychedelic Revival -- 12 Modeling the Model -- 1 Multiplying Screens -- 2 Neural Normality -- 3 Reliably Plastic.

4 Horizon Twentysomething -- 13 A Monk in the Office -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Monk at the Office: Stress and the Mindful Brain at the Work Place -- 3 From Buddhist Practice to Brain Training: De-Ethicizing Mindfulness -- 4 The Mindful Brain at the Office: Re-Ethicizing Mindfulness -- 5 Mindfulness as Cognitive Enhancer -- 6 Mindfulness as Soft Skill -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- 14 Figuring Thought -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Figuring Thought in the Act -- 3 Graphical Thinking -- 4 Embodied Figuration -- Part 4 Shared Patterns and Discordant Worlds -- 15 Circulating Neuro-Imagery: A Trilogue -- 16 What Have the Arts and Humanities Ever Done for Us? -- 1 Will the Cognitive Arts and Humanities Please Stand Up? -- 2 Towards a 4E Cognitive Arts and Humanities -- 3 Group Cognition in Classical Athens: Taking the Edge off Rupert's Razor -- 4 Artworks as Psychological Experiments -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgments -- 17 Measuring Acoustic Social Worlds -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Interpersonal Coordination -- 3 An Empirical Study of Multi-Agent Musical Interaction -- 4 Discussion -- 18 Harmonic Dissonance: Synchron(icit)y -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Harmonic Dissonance: Synchron(icit)y -- 3 Leveraging Conceptual Fuzziness to Generate Working Hypotheses at the Art-Science Interface -- 4 Synchrony and the Quest to Measure Togetherness -- 5 Synchronicity and Dual Utopia -- 6 The Brain and the Intuitive Body -- 7 Bringing in the Audience -- 8 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- 19 Thanks for Sharing -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Bounded Contiguity -- 3 Diversity and Homophily -- 4 Xeno-Patterning -- 5 Conclusion -- Index.