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 p...

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.