Enactivism and Ecological Psychology: The Role of Bodily Experience in Agency.
Frontiers in psychology January 1, 2020 Yanna B Popova, Joanna Rączaszek-leonardi 28 citations
Ecological psychology and enactivism, despite sharing roots in embodied cognition, have diverged in how they understand embodied experience. This paper argues that recognizing these differences can lead to a more integrated approach to agency, social cognition, and art reception. The authors propose a synergy where ecological psychology incorporates felt experience as a dynamic element in its models, while enactivism accounts for directly perceived relations arising from enactments in the social and physical world. Such complementarity is not only possible but already emerging, potentially overcoming current divisions of responsibility in cognitive science.