Evolution of Concepts
The primate mind of action-oriented and pushmi-pullyu representations receives a new layer of delayed-action-orientated and then reflection-oriented representations.
Category: Stephen T. Asma and Rami Gabriel: “The Emotional Mind”
Decoupling
Affect as conative motivational drive is amenable to being decoupleable because it predates—and remains functional—through all evolutionarily later cognitive abilities
Embodied Grammars
A large part of our book is thus dedicated to articulating an affect-based bio-semantics, but we also take a run at pre-linguistic syntax or grammar.
Affordances and Motivation
The study of emotions, the so-called affective turn, allows us to rethink crucial elements in psychology and philosophy of mind. There has been a concurrent surge in creative research and theory in the field of ecological psychology.[1] In our book, we seek to clarify the function of affective sentience in …
The Emotional Mind: The affective roots of culture and cognition
In our new book, we argue that emotional systems are central to understanding the evolution of the human mind (as well as those of our primate cousins).