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31Habits: Pragmatist Approaches From Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Social Theory (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2020.This book evaluates how the pragmatist notion of habit can influence current debates at the crossroads between philosophy, cognitive sciences, neurosciences, and social theory. It deals with the different aspects of the pragmatic turn involved in 4E cognitive science and traces back the roots of such a pragmatic turn to both classical and contemporary pragmatism. Written by renowned philosophers, cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, and social theorists, this volume fills the need for an inter…Read more
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625La Teoria dell’Interazione Sociale. Una Prospettiva Neuro-Pragmatista sul RisoI Castelli di Yale. Quaderni di Filosofia 5 (2): 367-397. 2018.After more than two millennia of theorizing, a unified view of how laughter works is still lacking. Over the years, philosophers have proposed three predominant hypotheses to explain this peculiar human behavior, based on a feeling of superiority, the appreciation of something that violates our expectations, or the release of nervous energy. Contemporary affective neuroscience inherited these frameworks, attempting to parcellate the brain regions involved in laughter production accordingly. In t…Read more
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37The Integration of Emotional Expression and Experience: A Pragmatist Review of Recent Evidence From Brain StimulationEmotion Review 11 (1): 27-38. 2019.A common view in affective neuroscience considers emotions as a multifaceted phenomenon constituted by independent affective and motor components. Such dualistic connotation, obtained by rephrasing the classic Darwin and James’s theories of emotion, leads to the assumption that emotional expression is controlled by motor centers in the anterior cingulate, frontal operculum, and supplementary motor area, whereas emotional experience depends on interoceptive centers in the insula. Recent stimulati…Read more
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29Types of abduction in tool behaviorPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 16 (2): 255-273. 2017.Tool-use behavior is currently one of the most intriguing and widely debated topics in cognitive neuroscience. Different accounts of our ability to use tools have been proposed. In the first part of the paper we review the most prominent interpretations and suggest that none of these accounts, considered in itself, is sufficient to explain tool use. In the second part of the paper we disentangle three different types of reasoning on tools, characterized by a different distribution of motor and c…Read more
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30Overcoming the emotion experience/expression dichotomyBehavioral and Brain Sciences 35 (3): 145-146. 2012.We challenge the classic experience/expression dichotomous account of emotions, according to which experiencing and expressing an emotion are two independent processes. By endorsing Dewey's and Mead's accounts of emotions, and capitalizing upon recent empirical findings, we propose that expression is part of the emotional experience. This proposal partly challenges the purely constructivist approach endorsed by the authors of the target article
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16La traduzione radicale dal cervello: Quine e il neuroscienziatoRivista di Filosofia 104 (1): 77-96. 2013.
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16«Learning to see». The role of the mirror neurons system, between neuroscience of perception and ordinary language analysisRivista di Filosofia 101 (3): 333-354. 2010.
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27How action selection can be embodied: intracranial gamma band recording shows response competition during the Eriksen flankers testFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 8. 2014.
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20Overcoming the acting/reasoning dualism in intelligent behaviorPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 16 (4): 709-713. 2017.In a paper that recently appeared in this journal, we proposed a model that aims at providing a comprehensive account of our ability to intelligently use tools, bridging sensorimotor and reasoning-based explanations of this ability. Central to our model is the notion of generalized motor programs for tool use, which we defined as a synthesis between classic motor programs, as described in the scientific literature, and Peircean habits. In his commentary, Osiurak proposes a critique of the notion…Read more
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«Imparare a vedere» La funzione del sistema dei neuroni specchio, tra neuroscienze della percezione e analisi del linguaggio ordinarioRivista di Filosofia 101 (3): 333-354. 2010.