The mind's golden cage and cognition in the wild

Agustin Ibanez

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2022.07.008

The mind's golden cage and cognition in the wild

Trends Cogn Sci. 2022 Dec;26(12):1031-1034. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2022.07.008. Epub 2022 Oct 12.

Author

Agustin Ibanez¹

Affiliation

¹ Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile. Electronic address: agustin.ibanez@gbhi.org.

PMID: 36243670
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2022.07.008

Abstract

The mind has been traditionally conceived as a set of differentiated, compartmentalized cognitive elements. However, understanding everyday, naturalistic cognition across brain health and disease entails major challenges. How can mainstream approaches be extended to cognition in the wild? Pragmatic, methodological, disease-related, and theoretical turns are proposed for future scientific development.

Keywords: brain dynamics; brain health; cognition in the wild; cognitive neuroscience; embodiment; situated cognition.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Brain*
Cognition*
Humans

Grants and funding

R01 AG057234/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States