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Our global word is currently overwhelmed by emerging technologies and they are shaping the environment in which education is being delivered. Up to date there is no clarity nor consensus on how to incorporate emerging technologies into educational settings, and as such there is a clear necessity to generate evidence for informed decision-making. Th...
The research aims to systematize the current scientific evidence on methodologies used to investigate the impact of indoor built environment on well-being, focusing on Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) variables such as thermal comfort, air quality, noise, and lighting. This systematic review adheres to the Joanna Briggs Institute framework and PR...
The concept of neurodiversity has gained strength in the last years to highlight the value of individual differences based on relevant variations in brain functioning. Inclusive education has embraced neurodiversity to promote a culture centered on valuing diversity, in response to clinical models based on deficits or disorders. This theoretical-cr...
This study explores the relationship between perception of attachment security (PAS), neurobehavioral dynamics during emotion recognition, and social skills (SSk) in late childhood and early adolescence using a multilinear modeling approach. Participants engaged in a facial expression of emotion recognition task while electroencephalography (EEG) s...
Traditional human neuroscience solely relies on controlled laboratory paradigms, which, while useful, fail to capture the situatedness, sociality, complexity, and richness of real-world interactions. Hence, understanding how the human brain processes social interactions across varying contexts is essential for advancing human neuroscience. The pres...
The conventional medical paradigm often focuses on deficits and impairments, failing to capture the rich tapestry of experiences and abilities inherent in neurodiversity conditions. In this article, we introduce the 3E‐Cognition perspective, offering a paradigm shift by emphasizing the dynamic interplay between the brain, body, and environment in s...
The P300 ERP component, related to the onset of task-relevant or infrequent stimuli, has been widely used in the Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI) literature. This systematic review evaluates the quality and breadth of P300 MoBI studies, revealing a maturing field with well-designed research yet grappling with standardization and global representati...
The migration of individuals to urban centers in the last century has coincided with a rise in stress-related mental health issues among city dwellers compared to their rural counterparts. Neurourbanism, a burgeoning field, seeks to comprehend the determinants of individual well-being within the urban context. This study investigated the impact of...
El presente artículo explora la evolución de los modelos utilizados por el campo de la medicina, desde el modelo biomédico hasta el modelo ofrecido por el marco de la Cognición 4E. Asimismo, se critica el enfoque biomédico para el diagnóstico y tratamiento de enfermedades debido a su naturaleza reduccionista de la complejidad del continuo salud-enf...
The integration of neuroscience and psychotherapy research has long been a topic of interest in the field of mental health. A significant challenge in psychotherapy research is understanding the dyadic interaction between patient and therapist. This interaction is complex, emerging from a myriad of multi-level factors such as gestures, verbal commu...
This systematic review assesses the quality and scope of P300 Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI) studies, revealing a field that is maturing with well-designed research but facing challenges in standardization and global representation. The review confirms that P300 ERP components can be reliably measured in mobile settings, supporting their use in s...
En la actualidad el Fondo Nacional de Salud (FONASA) chileno considera 21 instrumentos de evaluación neuropsicológica, que buscan entregar información que apoye en el diagnóstico y manejo de un paciente con necesidades neurocognitivas. Por lo cual el presente trabajo tiene como objetivo principal evaluar la calidad de la evidencia disponible para e...
Traditional neurodiversity views often focus on deficits and impairments, failing to capture the rich tapestry of experiences and abilities inherent in these conditions. In this article, we introduce the 3E-Cognition perspective, offering a paradigm shift by emphasizing the dynamic interplay between the brain, body, and environment in shaping cogni...
This study explored the link between Perception Attachment Security (PAS), neurobehavioral dynamics during emotion recognition, and social skills using a hierarchical multilinear EEG model. We used facial expression recognition tasks, behavior, and socio-affective measures to model a lower-dimensional parameter (LDP), which we built to encapsulate...
Psychobiotics are modulators of the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis (MGBA) with promising benefits to mental health. Lifestyle behaviors are established modulators of both mental health and the MGBA. This randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial (NCT04823533) on healthy adults (N = 135) tested 4 weeks of probiotic supplementation (Lactobacillus helve...
Among countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Chile stands out as having important inequalities in income distribution, dietary quality, access to urban green spaces, and health outcomes. People in lower socioeconomic groups consistently show higher rates of noncommunicable chronic diseases and are being hit t...
A recent opinion article suggested that the target article, “The holobiont mind: A bridge between 4E cognition and the microbiome”, wished to generate a “new theory of mind”. Furthermore, it contained ideas that were “unnecessary”, “not justified”, and “not innovative at all”. Furthermore the commentators consider that “the ideas of radical enactiv...
As we move through the world, natural and built environments implicitly guide behavior by appealing to certain sensory and motor dynamics. This process can be motivated by automatic attention to environmental features that resonate with specific sensorimotor responses. This review aims at providing a psychobiological framework describing how enviro...
Cognitive dynamics are multimodal, and they need to integrate real-time feedback to be adaptive and appropriate. However, cognition research still relies on mostly unimodal paradigms using simple motor tasks in laboratory-based static situations. This paper addresses this limitation by presenting the Mobile Brain/Body Imaging approach based on the...
The human mind’s complexity and its interaction with the environment is one of the main epistemological debates throughout history. Recent ideas, framed as the 4E approach to cognition, highlight that human experience depends causally on both cerebral and extracranial processes, but also is embedded in a particular physical context and is a product...
A recent opinion article commenting on Palacios-García & Parada (2021) suggested that the target article wished to generate a “new theory of mind” and contained ideas that were “unnecessary”, “not justified” and were “not innovative at all”. Furthermore the commentators consider that “the ideas of radical enactivism can properly accommodate this re...
A recent opinion article commenting on Palacios-García & Parada (2021) suggested that the target article wished to generate a “new theory of mind” and contained ideas that were “unnecessary”, “not justified” and were “not innovative at all”. Furthermore the commentators consider that “the ideas of radical enactivism can properly accommodate this re...
The complexity of the human mind and its interaction with the environment is one of the main epistemological debates throughout history. Recent ideas, framed as the 4E perspective to cognition, highlight that human experience depends causally on both cerebral and extracranial processes, but also is embedded in a particular sociomaterial context and...
Most of the current healthcare approaches used and taught in health professional education are labeled as biopsychosocial in opposition to the former dominant biomedical model that has been largely criticized for its exclusion of psychosocial aspects of health. However, the biopsychosocial model has significant limitations.The Embodied, Extended, E...
All life on earth is intrinsically linked. At the very foundation of every evolutionary interaction are microorganisms, integral components in the composition of both organisms and ecosystems. The available data and this perspective on the order of life challenge the traditional conception of monogenetic biological individuals, suggesting living be...
Semantic priming has been studied for nearly 50 years across various experimental manipulations and theoretical frameworks. These studies provide insight into the cognitive underpinnings of semantic representations in both healthy and clinical populations; however, they have suffered from several issues including generally low sample sizes and a la...
Semantic priming has been studied for nearly 50 years across various experimental manipulations and theoretical frameworks. Although previous studies provide insight into the cognitive underpinnings of semantic representations, they have suffered from several methodological issues including small sample sizes and a lack of linguistic and cultural d...
Humans are inextricably linked to each other and our natural world, and microorganisms lie at the nexus of those interactions. Microorganisms form genetically flexible, taxonomically diverse, and biochemically rich communities, i.e., microbiomes that are integral to the health and development of macroorganisms, societies, and ecosystems. Yet engage...
El desarrollo reciente de las ciencias psicológicas y cerebrales ha avanzado enormemente nuestro entendimiento del fenómeno cognitivo. Para lograr esto, el uso de experimentos de laboratorio ha sido esencial, sin embargo estos experimentos usualmente se encuentran lejanos a la experiencia vivida en el mundo real. Evidencia actual indica que una de...
La invención de la electroencefalografía (EEG) marcó un hito histórico tecnológico/metodológico que posicionó a la actividad eléctrica cerebral de gran escala como nuevo objeto epistemológico para el estudio de fenómenos cognitivos, inaugurando la subdisciplina de la Electrofisiología Cognitiva. Este documenta una historia breve de la Electrofisiol...
TRADUCCIÓN por EILIS REARDON (Connecticut College - ereardon@conncoll.edu). Avances tecnológicos recientes englobados bajo de Mobila Brain/Body Imaging framework (Makeig et al., 2009), ha producido emocionantes nuevos resultados experimentales que vinculan el mente, el cerebro, y el comportamiento (Gramann et al., 2014; Ladouce et al., 2017; Shamay...
All life on earth is intrinsically linked. At the very foundation of everyevolutionary interaction are microorganisms; integral components in thecomposition of both organisms and ecosystems. This perspectivechallenges the traditional conception of monogenetic biologicalindividuals, suggesting living beings are actually composite multi-speciescomple...
The uses of mobile brain/body imaging (MoBI) are expanding and allow for more direct study of the neurophysiological signals associated with behavior in psychotherapeutic encounters. Neuroaesthetics is concerned with the cognitive and neural basis of art appreciation and scientific correlations are being made in the field that might help to clarify...
Although the influence of social support in health is a widely acknowledged factor, there is a significant gap in the understanding of its role on cognition. The purpose of this systematic review was, therefore, to determine the state-of-the-art on the literature testing the association between social support and cognition. Using six databases (WoS...
Facial expressions of basic emotions are thought to be universal and their recognition might be culture-independent. Facial expressions communicate emotional states. Likewise, it is thought that orgasm’s expression also has a communicative function. Despite knowledge about facial expressions and their neural correlates (e.g electroencephalographic...
The original development of mobile brain/body imaging (MoBI) at the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego (Makeig et al., 2009), expanded the ability to measure brain/body dynamics in real-world environments. Doing so offers valuable insights for cognitive neuroscience (Gramann et al., 2014; Ladouce...
Specific city features such as environmental noise have been related
to psychological distress. The effects of noise — as a health risk
variable — might depend on socioeconomic and demographic factors. However, this has not been fully tested yet. The present work
explored the relationship between pedestrians’ first-person experience in the presence...
Recent technological advancements encompassed under the Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI) framework have produced exciting new experimental results linking mind, brain and behaviour. Nevertheless, novel hypotheses, measures and experimental paradigms are needed in order to tackle MoBI's ultimate goal: to model and understand cognition, behaviour and...
Recent technological advancements encompassed under the Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI) framework, have produced exciting new experimental results linking mind, brain, and behavior. The main goal of the MoBI approach is to model brain and body dynamics during every-day, natural, real-life situations. However, even though considerable advances have...
Recent developments in psychology and neuroscience have greatly advanced our understanding of cognition. But while classical laboratory experiments have been crucial to informing models of brain functioning, these types of experiments generally do not capture the experiences of the real world and therefore lack ecological validity. Due to the natur...
Urban environments are increasing worldwide, providing access to public facilities. Nevertheless, specific city features such as environmental noise have been related to health detriments. Deleterious effects of noise in health might depend on socioeconomic and demographic factors. The present mixed-method exploratory study examines the relationshi...
When closely examined, several biological mechanisms reveal themselves as implementing a physical and dynamical two-way link or coupling between the organism and the world. In these cases, some mechanisms’ components can either physically cross the body-world boundary or are brought by the organism’s motor actions onto specific sensory surfaces. As...
La cognición está estructural y funcionalmente entrelazada con el cuerpo del agente e inevitablemente restringida y facilitada mediante la exploración del mundo. La actividad física, como caminar, demanda sistemas neurales sanos. Así, esta debería ser fomentada mediante planificación y diseño urbano.
Cognitive process and associated states such as wellbeing are embodied, in a process of phylogenetic and ontogenic interdependencies, encompassing an organism’s both internal and external environments. Diurnal mammals’ physiology has been enslaved by the day/night cycle, imposed to planet Earth from the cosmos. Mammals’ physiology is furthermore en...
Modern cognitive science is the outcome of a transdisciplinary effort constituting the largest body of work about the mind in human history. These advancements have guided our understanding of the functional role of the agent’s body and context when producing adaptive behaviour and interactions. Thus, cognition is embodied, embedded, extended and e...
Exploration and play are considered to be crucial behaviors during mammalian development. Even though the relationship between glucocorticoids and exploratory behavior, stress, and anxiety is well described in the literature, very little is known about their role in play behavior in non-rodents. Likewise, the functional role of the “social hormone”...
Biological motion stimuli represent the essence of locomotor behavior and activate two major brain systems. One system is active in mentalizing, where an individual ascribes goals and mental states to another's actions, and consists mainly of the superior temporal sulcus, medial prefrontal cortex, and amygdala. A second system, consisting of the an...
In this chapter we focus on the neural processes that occur in the mature healthy human brain in response to evaluating another’s social attention. We first examine the brain’s sensitivity to gaze direction of others, social attention (as typically indicated by gaze contact), and joint attention. Brain regions such as the superior temporal sulcus (...
Gaze direction, a cue of both social and spatial attention, is known to modulate early neural responses to faces e.g. N170. However, findings in the literature have been inconsistent, likely reflecting differences in stimulus characteristics and task requirements. Here, we investigated the effect of task on neural responses to dynamic gaze changes:...
Our brains readily decode facial movements and changes in social attention, reflected in earlier and larger N170 event-related potentials (ERPs) to viewing gaze aversions vs. direct gaze in real faces (Puce et al., 2000). In contrast, gaze aversions in line-drawn faces do not produce these N170 differences (Rossi et al., 2014), suggesting that phys...
In this chapter we focus on the neural processes that occur in the mature healthy human brain in response to evaluating another’s social attention. We first examine the brain’s sensitivity to gaze direction of others, social attention (as typically indicated by gaze contact), and joint attention. Brain regions such as the superior temporal sulcus (...
ExpertEyes is a low-cost, open-source package of hardware and software that is designed to provide portable high-definition eyetracking. The project involves several technological innovations, including portability, high-definition video recording, and multiplatform software support. It was designed for challenging recording environments, and all p...
Our brains readily decode human movements, as shown by neural responses to face and body motion. N170 event-related potentials (ERPs) are earlier and larger to mouth opening movements relative to closing in both line-drawn and natural faces, and gaze aversions relative to direct gaze in natural faces (Puce and Perrett, 2003; Puce et al., 2000). Her...
The common history of Homo sapiens and Canis lupus familiaris dates back to between 11,000 and 32,000 years ago, when some wolves (Canis lupus) started living closely with humans. Although we cannot reach back into the past to measure the relative roles of wolves and humans in the ensuing domestication process, it was perhaps the first involving hu...
The rate of pecking at seeds by Steller's jays (Cyanocitta stelleri) is affected by the type of seed that is available and the presence and activity of nearby conspecifics. Jays at an artificial feeding platform peck at a lower rate when another jay is nearby, except when the other jay is feeding at a different platform. The decreased feeding rate...
We recorded the eye positions of 18 expert latent print examiners and 18 novice participants across two separate experiments that were designed to represent abbreviated latent print examinations. In the first experiment, participants completed self-paced latent and inked comparisons presented on a computer monitor while their eyes were tracked with...
Latent print examinations involve a complex set of psychological and cognitive processes. This article summarizes existing work that has addressed how training and experience creates changes in latent print examiners. Experience appears to improve overall accuracy, increase visual working memory, and lead to configural processing of upright fingerp...
