Abstract:Over the last two decades, cognitive scientists working in embodied, extended, enactive, and embedded cognition (the 4Es) have sought to understand mental processes in ways that take us “out of our heads.” They argue that the body and environment beyond the brain are integral components of cognitive processing. In this article, Moses explains how the “postcognitivist” models of mind they are advancing help us appreciate the mediated nature of literary texts and the social and environmental conditions that shape our experience of them. He argues that this new science transforms our understanding of such supposedly “inward” meditative experiences as poetry reading into a more collaborative, individually tailored, and culturally situated activity. By privileging the role that the body and physical and cultural environment play in organizing and constituting thought, these models of cognitive analysis present humanities scholars with a fresh entry point for productive cross-disciplinary engagement with scientists. Such experimentally based theories can expand understanding of how we cognitively encounter texts, here understood in a larger practice-based context. Meanwhile, literary critics can raise into view distinctive cultural objects, such as modernist lyric poems, that meaningfully test the parameters and assumptions of the underlying theories. Moses argues that such poems aim a needed spotlight on the role that affect plays in reading practices and challenge some of the functionalist assumptions of this research. Focusing on poetry’s cognitive complexity may, in turn, contribute to the larger effort, just begun, of resocializing the neurosciences and challenging the “neuroreductionist program.”

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诗歌与环境意识

摘要：在过去的二十年中，从事嵌入式，扩展，主动和嵌入式认知（4E）的认知科学家试图以使我们“头脑清醒”的方式理解心理过程。他们认为，大脑以外的身体和环境是认知过程不可或缺的组成部分。在本文中，摩西解释了他们前进的“后认知主义”思维模式如何帮助我们欣赏文学文本的中介性质以及塑造我们对其经验的社会和环境条件。他认为，这种新科学将我们对诗歌阅读之类的所谓“内向”沉思体验的理解转变为一种更具协作性，针对个人量身定制且具有文化背景的活动。这些认知分析模型通过赋予身体，身体和文化环境在组织和构成思想中所发挥的作用，为人文学者提供了一个新的切入点，可以与科学家进行有效的跨学科交流。这种基于实验的理论可以扩大对我们如何认知文本的理解，而本文是在更大范围的基于实践的背景下进行理解的。同时，文学评论家可以提出独特的文化对象，例如现代主义抒情诗，以有意义地检验基础理论的参数和假设。摩西认为，这类诗歌将重点放在影响阅读实践中角色扮演的角色上，并挑战这项研究的某些功能主义假设。反过来，关注诗歌的认知复杂性，