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| Title |
Embodiment and sense-making in autism
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnint.2013.00015 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Hanne De Jaegher |
| Abstract |
In this article, I sketch an enactive account of autism. For the enactive approach to cognition, embodiment, experience, and social interaction are fundamental to understanding mind and subjectivity. Enaction defines cognition as sense-making: the way cognitive agents meaningfully connect with their world, based on their needs and goals as self-organizing, self-maintaining, embodied agents. In the social realm, the interactive coordination of embodied sense-making activities with others lets us participate in each other's sense-making (social understanding = participatory sense-making). The enactive approach provides new concepts to overcome the problems of traditional functionalist accounts of autism, which can only give a piecemeal and disintegrated view because they consider cognition, communication, and perception separately, do not take embodied into account, and are methodologically individualistic. Applying the concepts of enaction to autism, I show: How embodiment and sense-making connect, i.e., how autistic particularities of moving, perceiving, and emoting relate to how people with autism make sense of their world. For instance, restricted interests or preference for detail will have certain sensorimotor correlates, as well as specific meaning for autistic people.That reduced flexibility in interactional coordination correlates with difficulties in participatory sense-making. At the same time, seemingly irrelevant "autistic behaviors" can be quite attuned to the interactive context. I illustrate this complexity in the case of echolalia. An enactive account of autism starts from the embodiment, experience, and social interactions of autistic people. Enaction brings together the sensorimotor, cognitive, social, experiential, and affective aspects of autism in a coherent framework based on a complex non-linear multi-causality. This foundation allows to build new bridges between autistic people and their often non-autistic context, and to improve quality of life prospects. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 30 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 4 | 13% |
| United States | 4 | 13% |
| Italy | 2 | 7% |
| Austria | 2 | 7% |
| Brazil | 1 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |
| Belgium | 1 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 13 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 21 | 70% |
| Scientists | 9 | 30% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 314 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 3 | <1% |
| United States | 2 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Philippines | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 304 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 70 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 53 | 17% |
| Researcher | 33 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 26 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 16 | 5% |
| Other | 50 | 16% |
| Unknown | 66 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 75 | 24% |
| Social Sciences | 33 | 11% |
| Arts and Humanities | 21 | 7% |
| Computer Science | 15 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 15 | 5% |
| Other | 73 | 23% |
| Unknown | 82 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 May 2023.
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