Enactivism: Embodied cognition, sense-making, and nursing.
Nursing inquiry October 1, 2024 Graham Mccaffrey 4 citations
Enactivism, a branch of embodied cognition theory, portrays cognition as a sense-making process distributed across brain, body, environment, and subjective experience. This theoretical paper introduces enactivism's background and main tenets and argues for its relevance to nursing, particularly mental health nursing. The authors contend that enactivism offers nursing an integrated framework for understanding human sense-making that includes physiological, psychological, and subjective perceptual factors, potentially enriching nursing knowledge.