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I work experimentally and conceptually on interpersonal coordination proposing an expressivist approach to human encounters. Complementarily I research on history of psychology.
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The present chapter aims to defend the thesis that Theodor Lipps adhered epistemologically and metaphysically to Naturphilosophie. After a brief biography of Lipps, we summarize the central ideas of his philosophy, his critique of the natural sciences, and his defense of lived experience as the fundamental fact of psychology. Subsequently, we revis...
The introduction critiques the presentist interpretation of psychology’s history, arguing that it oversimplifies the field’s evolution by viewing past theories through a contemporary lens. It emphasizes that early twentieth-century experimental psychology was not the sole or final form of the discipline. The historical narrative should include dive...
The 19th century was a defining era for psychology, rich with an intellectual diversity that shaped modern thought but which remains largely overlooked. The roots of 20th century thought can be traced to the 19th century, when a mechanical worldview took hold, society grew increasingly secular, modern urban metropolises emerged, and evolutionist id...
The 19th century was a defining era for psychology, rich with an intellectual diversity that shaped modern thought but which remains largely overlooked. The roots of 20th century thought can be traced to the 19th century, when a mechanical worldview took hold, society grew increasingly secular, modern urban metropolises emerged, and evolutionist id...
Research on child-adult interactions has identified that the morphology of bodily coordination seems to be sensitive to age and type of interaction. Mirror-like imitation emerges earlier in life and is more common during emotionally laden interactions, while anatomical imitation is acquired later and associated with cognitive tasks. However, it rem...
Complex systems theory has become one of the main frameworks to understand, model and explain interactional phenomena such as interpersonal coordination. In her paper, Butler (this issue) applies this approach to theorise about coordination at large, including human interactions. We argue that the all-encompassing language of complex systems theory...
This chapter explores two themes running throughout the present volume. The first addresses the issues raised by an ever-growing rigidity and prescriptive nature in methodological approaches. While agreeing with this line of diagnosis, I further argue that these traits also go completely unquestioned by contemporary conceptions of science, breeding...
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study aims to describe and characterize the insights of elementary school students during the collaborative solving of mathematics problems. A total of 10 elementary school 60-min math classes were analyzed, with each session documented by videotaping the interaction of groups of 3 to 6 children. The study included 41 students in total...
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Olfactory preference emerges very early in life, and the sense of smell in children rapidly develops until the second decade of life. It is still unclear whether hedonic perception of odors is shared in children inhabiting different regions of the globe.
Methods
Five-hundred ten healthy children (N = 510; ngirls = 256; nboys = 254) aged...
Se presenta una traducción íntegra al español del texto 'Das Geschäft des Psychologen' (“El quehacer del psicólogo”) del filósofo/psicólogo alemán Christoph G. Weidenbach, publicada en el año 1806 en Heidelberg. La traducción es precedida por una contextualización de la biografía y actividad docente de Weidenbach, así como una exposición de categor...
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Contemporary semiotic approaches in cultural psychology tend to narrow down Peirce’s constellation of signs to symbols, just one besides icons and indexes. Such reduction confuses representation (Darstellung) with presentation (Vorstellung) and ultimately leads to overlooking a proto-symbolic dimension of human experience. In this chapter, I explor...
Interpersonal coordination (IC) has become an area of growing interest in the last decades. Despite the accumulated evidence, we still do not have an encompassing explanative framework. However, a serious candidate is the interpersonal synergies theory (IST), a model part of the broader complexity approach. In the present paper, we analyze the suit...
The temporal dimension of interpersonal macro- and micro-coordinations between young children and social partners, as well as its functions, has been well documented. However, the different morphologies that bodily micro-coordination can adopt during these interactions have received considerably less attention. This research studied the temporality...
This study explored the effects of musical improvisation between dyads of same-sex strangers on subsequent behavioural alignment. Participants–all non-musicians–conversed before and after either improvising music together (Musical Improvisation—MI—group) or doing a motoric non-rhythmic cooperative task (building a tower together using wooden blocks...
Cultural psychology is characterized by an interest in the meaning dimension of objects and events. Meaning, however, can be defined either as the product of social conventions or as a felt experience. Both definitions constitute different traditions in cultural psychology: the conventionalist and the experiential. Their unnoticed coexistence const...
While individuals interact, they coordinate their feelings and emotions. They also coordinate several kinds of expression while interacting, like facial expressions and gestures. Inspired by Karl Bühler’s Organon model and Henri Bergson’s description of remembering experiences, we explore interpersonal coordination during a collaborative rememberin...
Infant-adult synchrony has been reported through observational and experimental studies. Nevertheless, synchrony is addressed differently in both cases. While observational studies measure synchrony in spontaneous infant-adult interactions, experimental studies manipulate it, inducing nonspontaneous synchronous and asynchronous interactions. A stil...
Resumen Este estudio busca ser un aporte a la pedagogía general al indagar un tipo particular de intervenciones pedagógicas denominadas expresiones articuladoras, caracterizadas por introducir conexiones entre diferentes asuntos técnicos o temas asociados a una disciplina que emergen durante una clase. Se determinaron dos tipos de expresiones artic...
The temporal dynamics of parent-infant synchrony have been well documented. In recent years, the introduction of more accurate technologies for tracking movements has allowed the distinction of different morphological patterns of dyadic coordination. However, the potential of these technologies to explore infant-adult synchrony has not yet been exp...
The present study explores the influence of the analytical and holistic approaches on semantic integration of literal and metaphorical sentences. We recorded ERP to compare brain responses to literal (e.g. Mosquitoes are insects) and metaphorical (e.g. Mosquitoes are vampires) sentences, preceded by two types of interpretative cues to encourage lit...
In this volume, Aaro Toomela conducts an epistemological analysis of modern psychology according to which the discipline would be in a more primitive developmental stage than biology or physics. He uses basically two standards of scientificity: the satisfaction of four epistemological criteria (Is there an external world?/ Is this external world or...
The present article reports the results of a quantitative exploratory study whose objective was to identify inner language forms and its expressive manifestations in gestures. 50 university students were individually submitted to two events of inner language elicitation: an instrumental music and a story. After each stimulus participants were asked...
El presente artículo reporta los resultados de un estudio cuantitativo exploratorio, cuyo objetivo fue identificar formas de lenguaje interior y sus manifestaciones expresivas en la gestualidad. Los participantes, 50 estudiantes universitarios, fueron sometidos individualmente a dos eventos de elicitación de lenguaje interior: una música instrument...
Body synchronization between interacting people involves coordinative movements in time, space and form. The introduction of newer technologies for automated video analysis and motion tracking has considerably improved the accurate measurement of coordination, particularly in temporal and spatial terms. However, the form of interpersonal coordinati...
Objective:
To assess olfactory function in children and to create and validate an odor identification test to diagnose olfactory dysfunction in children, which we called the Universal Sniff (U-Sniff) test.
Study design:
This is a multicenter study involving 19 countries. The U-Sniff test was developed in 3 phases including 1760 children age 5-7...
Although spontaneous interpersonal coordination was originally reported in the early 1960s, the accurate measurement of this phenomenon is very recent. Sophisticated methods used by dynamic systems theory and social neuroscientific perspectives have allowed capturing and analyzing patterns of neural and bodily coordination between interactants, fav...
Research regarding interpersonal coordination can be traced back to the early 1960s when video recording began to be utilized in communication studies. Since then, technological advances have extended the range of techniques that can be used to accurately study interactional phenomena. Although such a diversity of methods contributes to the improve...
We owe Giambattista Vico the outstanding achievement of identifying the intellectual role of imagination in the human sciences. After 100 years of predominance of Cartesianism in Western thought, Vico proposed in 1725 the program of a new science whose methodological key lies on the human capacity to imagine social forms of life different from our...
By doing history of psychology, we occasionally find areas of inquiry that have been forgotten in contemporary psychological language. One of these themes is fantasy. In this lecture I present some major contributions to fantasy before the establishment of scientific psychology. The exploration will begin with J.W. Goethe’s (1810) fourfold concepti...
Goldin-Meadow & Brentari (G-M&B) are implicitly going against the dominant paradigm in language research, namely, the “speech as written language” metaphor that portrays vocal sounds and bodily signs as means of delivering stable word meanings. We argue that Heinz Werner's classical research on the physiognomic properties of language supports and c...
This study aimed to explore and describe the process of dialogic regulation in conversational interactions. It were recorded on video 30 pairs of students together in unknown interactions that were oriented to generate a nonempathic or sympathetic handling situation, and four segments of conversation, two for each type of interaction, were selected...
This study aimed to explore and describe the process of dialogic regulation in conversational interactions. It were recorded on video 30 pairs of students together in unknown interactions that were oriented to generate a non-empathic or sympathetic handling situation, and four segments of conversation, two for each type of interaction, were selecte...
Drawing on the notion of musical intervals, recent studies have demonstrated the use of precise frequency ratios within human vocalisation. Methodologically, these studies have addressed human vocalisation at an individual level. In the present study, we asked whether patterns such as musical intervals can also be found among the voices of people e...
In this article, I examine Vygotsky’s holism by considering his usage of ‘microcosm’ and chronicling the term’s origin and development. This exploration leads first to Spinoza’s monism as the primordial source of Vygotsky’s holism. Then, I present the notion of microcosm in the context of German Romanticism and J. W. Goethe. Humboldt’s Cosmos and L...
During the last 30 years the discussion on memory and remembering has advanced from a strictly cognitive perspective to a broader view, involving the body in these processes. Thus, the present article aims to recover Henri Bergson’s main ideas — published more than a century ago — emphasizing the tight relation between immediate experience, memory...
Qualitative research has traditionally portrayed itself as the heir to the epistemological critique of quantification in psychology. In this chapter we consider the aesthetic features in qualitative discourse and show that they reveal an underlying preservation of and even support for metatheoretical beliefs that are valuable for empiricism. This i...
Parenting programs are relatively low cost and could be easier than other interventions to scale-up in low and middle-income countries. The Chilean version of Nobody's Perfect has a been relatively successful in scaling up, including adapting materials, training facilitators and implementing in primary health care centres in a middle income country...
Gerd Jüttemann has recently published a programmatic article in the German journal Erwägen-Wissen-Ethik (Deliberation-Knowledge-Ethics) in which he explains the main tenets of his theoretical approach Historical psychology. We analyze the characteristics of the metalanguage used by the author to produce the integration, questioning its effectivenes...
Some psychologists claim that the brain is a tool. This claim can be construed either literally or figuratively. We argue that, in the former case, it is false, whereas in the latter case it has no place in scientific psychology. We also try to show why this discussion is relevant and suggest how a metaphor should behave to be of use in science.
This article presents the evolution of Heinz Werner's thought on metaphor from 1919 until Symbol Formation (1963). Early on, he distinguished between the logical and the psychological approach to metaphor, where the former analyzes the conceptual con-flation produced by metaphor and the latter centers on the subjective experience of this incongruen...
Matusov (2011) sustains that Vygotsky and Bakhtin represent irreconcilable theoretical approaches. In his view, Vygotsky’s model is monologic and universalist, while Bakhtin’s is dialogic and pluralist. Although the two authors differ importantly, one cannot speak of irreconcilability for two main reasons. First, Vygotsky’s approach is much more mu...
Resumen El recurrente diagnóstico que la psicología es una ciencia en crisis puede ser anali-zado como la pugna entre dos concepciones de psicología: la cientificista y la com-prensiva. Ambas coexisten desde los inicios de la disciplina, definiendo objetos y métodos de estudio divergentes y constituyendo hoy culturas antagónicas. El análi-sis histo...
The Aymara of the Andes use absolute (cardinal) frames of reference for describing the relative position of ordinary objects. However, rather than encoding them in available absolute lexemes, they do it in lexemes that are intrinsic to the body: nayra ("front") and qhipa ("back"), denoting east and west, respectively. Why? We use different but comp...
In this commentary, I analyze Valsiner and Salvatore’s argument about the need to construct a language for idiographic science. I present the original version of the concepts nomothetic and idiographic by Wilhelm Windelband and later misunderstandings about them. I argue that these misunderstandings are partially motivated by inconsistencies by Win...
This study explored the relation between empathy and phonetic convergence. The working hypothesis was that empathy among two individuals translates into a synchronic process impacting on pitch values. This was studied by recording 27 dyadic interactions assigned to one of two experimental conditions (labeled as Empathic and Non-Empathic). The evolu...
This study explored the relation between empathy and phonetic convergence. The working hypothesis was that empathy among two individuals translates into a synchronic process impacting on pitch values. This was studied by recording 27 dyadic interactions assigned to one of two experimental conditions (labeled as Empathic and Non-Empathic). The evolu...
Brinkmann has recently put forward an integrative theory of the mind by expanding Harré's hybrid psychology. The theory is integrative because it establishes that in order for one to gain a full understanding of the mind-which is represented as a set of dispositions-one has to take into account theories about the brain, the body, social practices,...
An undisputable characteristic of cognitive science is its enormous diversity of theories. Not surprisingly, these often belong to different paradigms that focus on different processes and levels of analysis. A related problem is that researchers of cognition frequently seem to ascribe to incompatible approaches to research, creating a Tower of Bab...
Human communication in a natural context implies the dynamic coordination of contextual clues, paralinguistic information and literal as well as figurative language use. In the present study we constructed a paradigm with four types of video clips: literal and metaphorical expressions accompanied by congruent and incongruent gesture actions. Partic...
In cognitive neuroscience, the reissue of the notion of emergence and downward causation has been used as an interlevel model of mind-brain interactions from different perspectives. Within this perspective, intentionality has been interpreted as global to local determination (downward causation) on the neurophysiological level. Consciousness would...
In this essay I comment on the paper by Gillespie and Zittoun (2009). I argue that the metaphor of culture as a set of resources entails that there be an agent with a certain purpose, whose action converts something into an instrument. In this sense, the metaphor is cryptointentionalist. This arises from the fact that every use of a cultural resour...
Microgenetic methodologies developed in the firsthalf of the twentieth century are still used in some perception studies. However, contemporary microgenetic studies do not always share the original theoretical background that originated concept definition. Particularly, the phenomenological background of concept has been neglected. This paper shows...
El objetivo de este estudio es investigar la relación entre el significado que los estudiantes elaboran respecto de sus tareas escolares y el nivel de desempeño que alcanzan en ellas. Basada en un enfoque de cognición situada, se diseñó una estrategia videográfica para elicitar, registrar e interpretar los significados que emergen cuando los estudi...
The objective of this study is to investigate the relation between the meaning students attribute to their school tasks and the performance level they achieve in them. Based on the approach of situated cognition, a video strategy was defined to elicit, record, and interpret the meanings that emerge when students observe their own performance in sce...
In recent years, studies have suggested that gestures influence comprehension of linguistic expressions, for example, eliciting an N400 component in response to a speech/gesture mismatch. In this paper, we investigate the role of gestural information in the understanding of metaphors. Event related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants...
En el estudio de la percepción existen metodo- logías cuyo origen se encuentra en los estudios microgenéticos realizados en la primera mitad del siglo XX. Sin embargo, no siempre los estudios microgenéticos contemporáneos son coherentes con el trasfondo teórico orginal que le daba sen- tido al concepto. Particularmente olvidado es el trasfondo feno...
I outline in this paper a pragmatical approach to meaning. Meaning is defined as a phenomenologically experienced construal. As such, it is a dynamic object whose first evidence comes from the first person rather than the third one. At the same time, the approach assumes that meaning is not an individual creation, but rather an intersubjective one....
The paper presents a review of Kövecses's book Metaphor in Culture: Universality and Variation (2005) advancing a more general critique to the cognitive linguistic view of metaphor. Kövecses addresses a pending problem for the cognitive linguistic approach, namely the observed variation both cross-culturally and within cultures in the use of metaph...
We explore the hypothesis that induction of holistic or analytic strategies influences comprehension and processing of highly contextualized expressions of ordinary language, such as irony. Twenty undergraduate students were asked to categorize as coherent or incoherent a group of sentences. Each sentence completed a previous story, so that they co...
I offer an interpretation of Ernst E. Boesch's theory of symbolic action focusing on the usually overlooked phenomenological and existential aspects of this cultural-psychological approach. This interpretation raises the more general question about the role that subjectivity plays in cultural-psychological studies. It is argued that, depending on t...
This study explores whether the brain can discriminate degrees of semantic congruency during wakefulness and sleep. Experiment 1 was conducted during wakefulness to test degrees of congruency by means of N400 amplitude. In Experiment 2, the same paradigm was applied to a different group of participants during natural night sleep. Stimuli were 108 s...
In his paper, David Matsumoto (2005) offers a critical approach to the adequacy of verbal reports as representations of culture, arguing that they represent a cultural ideology (what he calls ‘consensual culture’ or a ‘consensual cultural worldview’) rather than a culture's actual complexity (‘cultural ways’ or ‘actual cultural behaviors’). I agree...
Evidence based decision making in medicine is, nowadays, a movement with political and practical implications. This article performs a historical description of evidence based medicine and its underlying conceptual and philosophical premises. An open dialogue to recognize the diverse sources of evidence that modify clinical practice is proposed, to...
Evidence based decision making in medicine is, nowadays, a movement with political and practical implications. This article performs a historical description of evidence based medicine and its underlying conceptual and philosophical premises. An open dialogue to recognize the diverse sources of evidence that modify clinical practice is proposed, to...
Si bien existen estudios que muestran procesamiento cognitivo durante el sueño, no existe evidencia previa de procesamiento de estímulos complejos. Un ejemplo de procesamiento complejo es la discriminación del grado de congruencia semántica entre una palabra y un contexto previo (Colrain y Campbell, 2007). O dicho de otro modo, determinar hasta qué...
Currently, cognitive psychology assumes that linguistic meaning is based on associations between linguistic forms and semantic contents. This conception presents empirical as well as logical problems. It does not explain the flexibility of language use and it is inconsistent with the subject-dependence of all cognitive acts. A theoretical analysis...
Se analiza el sentido en el que las teorías de J. Piaget, L. S. Vigotski y H. Maturana pueden ser consideradas como constructivistas. La tesis defendida es que existen dos formas distintas de constructivismo, a saber el cognitivo (Piaget, Vigotski) y el radical (Maturana), que contrasta con la idea de un único constructivismo en psicología. Ambas c...
