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The metaphorical brain [Research topic]
This Frontiers Special Issue will synthesize current findings on the cognitive neuroscience of metaphor, provide a forum for voicing novel perspectives, and promote new insights into the metaphorical brain
Predictive embodied concepts: an exploration of higher cognition within the predictive processing paradigm
Predictive processing, an increasingly popular paradigm in cognitive sciences, has
focused primarily on giving accounts of perception, motor control and a host of
psychological phenomena, including consciousness. But higher cognitive processes,
like conceptual thought, language, and logic, have received only limited attention to
date and PP still stands disconnected from a huge body of research in those areas.
In this thesis, I aim to address this gap and I attempt to go some way towards
developing and defending a cognitive-computational approach to higher cognition
within the predictive processing paradigm. To test its explanatory potential, I apply it
to a range of linguistic and conceptual phenomena. I proceed in three steps. First, I
lay out an account of concepts and suggest how concepts are represented, how they
can be context-sensitively processed, and how the apparent diversity of formats
arise. Secondly, I propose how paradigmatic higher cognitive competencies, like
language and logical reasoning, could fit into the PP picture. Thirdly, I apply the PP
account of concepts and language to a range of linguistic-conceptual phenomena as
test cases, namely: metaphor, the semantic paradox (specifically the Liar Paradox)
and copredication. Finally, I discuss some challenges and objections to the PP
framework as applied to higher cognition and in general