Worlding the Brain: Neurocentrism, Cognition and the Challenge of the Arts and Humanities

Contents
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Together again, Apart
	1 The Brain and the World
	2 Worlding
	3 Interdiscipinarity and Bricolage
	4 Volume Overview
Part 1 Worlded Brains
1 “Worlding” the Brain through the Cultural Practice of Rhetorical memoria
	1 Introduction
	2 Rhetorical memoria in a Classroom Setting
	3 Rhetorical memoria in the Rhetorica ad Herennium
	4 Rhetorical memoria in the Context of Neuro-Cognitive Memory Studies
	5 Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
2 The Mediated Brain
	1 Introduction
	2 Embodied Enculturation
	3 Media Ecologies and Film Form
	4 From Marks on a Surface to Cinematographic Spectatorship
	5 Embodying the Camera? Alfred Hitchock’s Notorious
	6 More Is Needed: Notorious Revisited
	7 Advocating Studies on Neuromediality
	8 Twofoldness and Expanding the Motor Equation
	9 Conclusion and Outlook
3 Getting a Kick out of Film
	1 Introduction
	2 On Being a Predictive Machine
	3 Enjoying Surprise: Error Dynamics and Aesthetic Pleasure
	4 (Horror) Films as Tools of Prediction
	5 Films, Aesthetic Chills, and Optimization
	6 Conclusion
4 Transgenerational Trauma and Worlded Brains
	1 Introduction
	2 Post-Traumatic Stress: from War Victimization to Indirect Traumatization
	3 Inter- and Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma in Post-Holocaust and Other Contexts
	4 Transgenerational Trauma in Post-Slavery Contexts
	5 Causal Pluralism in Indirect Traumatization
		5.1 Epigenetics as a Constitutive Factor in Trauma Transmission
		5.2 Historical Trauma as a Contextual Factor in Indirect Traumatization
	6 Concluding Remarks
	Acknowledgements
5 Beworldered
	1 A Phenomenological Approach
	2 Hirn: Leib nor Körper
	3 De-Worlded
	4 Disappearances
	5 Beworldered
6 Pedagogy and Neurodiversity
	1 A Critique on the Typical Model of the Classroom
	2 The Movement of Neurodiversity and the Experiential Dimension: Bottom-Up?
	3 Autistic Perception and Processes of Sense Making as More-Than Reflection
	4 The Classroom Experiment Called spazze and Its Neurodiverse Pedagogy
Part 2 Narrative Entanglements
7 Personification as Élanification
	1 Introduction
	2 Personification as Agency Combustion
	3 Élanification and the Worlding of Semiospheres: Biomorphism, Zoomorphism, Anthropomorphism, and Personification
	4 Prompters and Narrative Percolation in Worlding Perceived Relations
	5 Between Aliveness and Indifference: towards a Theory of Élanification
8 Cognitive Formalism
	1 Introduction
	2 Misreadings
	3 Algorithmic Narratives
	4 Cognitive Formalism
	Acknowledgments
9 “Watchman, What of the Night?”
	1 Uncertainty, Prediction, and the “Designer Environment” of the Text
	2 Conceptual Confusion, Unresolved Errors, and the Affordance Structure of the Text
	3 Uncertainty as Literary Affordance
10 The Unfolding Now
	1 Introduction
	2 Autonarration
	3 Intersubjective Narration
	4 Neurocinematic Findings about Narrative Experience
	5 Intersubject Correlation
	6 Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
Part 3 Figuring the Brain
11 Set and Setting of the Brain on Hallucinogen
	1 Introduction: the Psychedelic Renaissance
	2 Collective Set and Setting of the Hippie Exploitation Film and the Acid Western
	3 Blowing up Hollywood: The Last Movie’s Hallucinatory Sexism and Racism
	4 Blueberry’s Ayahuasca Gold Rush and the “Western” Quest for Shamanic Healing
	5 Shooting Back and Collective Action in Psychotropic Western Bacurau
	6 The Weird and the Disturbing in the Psychedelic Revival
12 Modeling the Model
	1 Multiplying Screens
	2 Neural Normality
	3 Reliably Plastic
	4 Horizon Twentysomething
13 A Monk in the Office
	1 Introduction
	2 A Monk at the Office: Stress and the Mindful Brain at the Work Place
	3 From Buddhist Practice to Brain Training: De-Ethicizing Mindfulness
	4 The Mindful Brain at the Office: Re-Ethicizing Mindfulness
	5 Mindfulness as Cognitive Enhancer
	6 Mindfulness as Soft Skill
	7 Conclusion
	References
14 Figuring Thought
	1 Introduction
	2 Figuring Thought in the Act
	3 Graphical Thinking
	4 Embodied Figuration
Part 4 Shared Patterns and Discordant Worlds
15 Circulating Neuro-Imagery: A Trilogue
16 What Have the Arts and Humanities Ever Done for Us?
	1 Will the Cognitive Arts and Humanities Please Stand Up?
	2 Towards a 4E Cognitive Arts and Humanities
	3 Group Cognition in Classical Athens: Taking the Edge off Rupert’s Razor
	4 Artworks as Psychological Experiments
	5 Concluding Remarks
	Acknowledgments
17 Measuring Acoustic Social Worlds
	1 Introduction
	2 Interpersonal Coordination
	3 An Empirical Study of Multi-Agent Musical Interaction
	4 Discussion
18 Harmonic Dissonance: Synchron(icit)y
	1 Introduction
	2 Harmonic Dissonance: Synchron(icit)y
	3 Leveraging Conceptual Fuzziness to Generate Working Hypotheses at the Art-Science Interface
	4 Synchrony and the Quest to Measure Togetherness
	5 Synchronicity and Dual Utopia
	6 The Brain and the Intuitive Body
	7 Bringing in the Audience
	8 Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
19 Thanks for Sharing
	1 Introduction
	2 Bounded Contiguity
	3 Diversity and Homophily
	4 Xeno-Patterning
	5 Conclusion
Index