Jakub Matyja

• MSc in Philosophy
• Lecturer at SWPS University

Recently, a new paradigm has emerged in mind and brain sciences. Radical embodied neuroscience (REN) aims to respond to the problems of mapping particular cognitive functions to narrowly defined brain regions. Accordingly, the proponents of this approach call for research to move beyond heuristics of localization and decomposition (Bechtel and Rich...

The embodied paradigm recently applied to music cognition advocates the crucial role of the agents’ body for musical understanding. This standpoint holds that a basic form of musical meaning’s ascription is action-based, radically entwined with the level of motor knowledge of the listener or performer. Traditional music psychology often employs com...

In his paper, Luke Kersten (2014) argues that since music cognition is part of a locationally wide computational system, it can be considered as an extended process. Overall I sympathize with Kersten’s (2014) view. However, in the present paper I underline those issues that need to be, in my opinion, developed in a more detailed and cautious way. E...

Context • The past few years have presented us with a growing amount of theoretical research (yet that is often based on neuroscientific developments) in the field of enactive music cognition. > Problem • Current cognitivist and embodied approaches to music cognition suffer, in our opinion, from a too firm commitment to the explanatory role of ment...

> Context • The past few years have presented us with a growing amount of theoretical research (yet that is often based on neuroscientific developments) in the field of enactive music cognition. > Problem • Current cognitivist and embodied approaches to music cognition suffer, in our opinion, from a too firm commitment to the explanatory role of me...

Upshot . The fact that both "consciousness" and "music" are quite elusive terms makes the attempt to explain the nature (or even the existence of) "musical consciousness" a compelling quest. The papers in this book tackle these problems in an engaging way, ranging from sociology of music to drug altered music cognition. Some also apply enactive and...

Upshot In his latest book, Lawrence Shapiro analyzes three main themes of embodied cognition that are claimed to make it distinct from traditional, disembodied research on cognition. The author provides a lucid comparison of the "old" and the "new" cognitive science, thereby often referring to enactivism, which most certainly makes his book interes...

Przemysław Nowakowski: Czy mógłby Pan opisać krótko swoją koncepcję emulacji? Czy sądzi Pan, że może stać się podstawą nie tylko dla teorii percepcji, lecz także – na przykład – dla teorii pojęć lub wnioskowania? Rick Grush: Moja koncepcja emulacji jest stosunkowo prosta: emulacja to reprezentowanie czegoś przy użyciu modeli, które to coś zastępują...