This Brief introduces two empirically grounded models of situated mental
phenomena: contextual social cognition (the collection of psychological
processes underlying context-dependent social behavior) and
action-language coupling (the integration of ongoing actions with
movement-related verbal information). It combines behavioral,
neuroscientific, and neuropsychiatric perspectives to forge a novel view
of contextual influences on active, multi-domain processes. Chapters
highlight the models' translational potential for the clinical field by
focusing on diseases compromising social cognition (mainly illustrated
by behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia) and motor skills
(crucially, Parkinson's disease). A final chapter sets forth
metatheoretical considerations regarding intercognition, the constant
binding of processes triggered by environmental and body-internal
sources, which confers a sensus communis to our experience. In
addition, the book includes two commentaries written by external peers
pondering on advantages and limits of the proposal.
Contextual Cognition will be of interest to students, teachers, and
researchers from the fields of cognitive science, neurology, psychiatry,
neuroscience, psychology, behavioral science, linguistics, and
philosophy.