Adaptive Behavior, Ahead of Print. More than 20 years ago, Humberto Maturana and Ximena Dávila initiated a research program on the nature of human coexistence within the framework of molecular-autopoietic systems and the understanding of the organism-n…
Adaptive Behavior, Ahead of Print. 4E cognition (embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive) is a growing, open and pluralistic research tradition that offers new philosophical and scientific avenues to study the mind. Both its origins and current expa…
Adaptive Behavior, Ahead of Print. Risk-taking is a ubiquitous behavior and its assessment is a central aspect of understanding human decision-making. Self-report questionnaires can be used to probe risk-taking propensities in a domain-specific manner….
Adaptive Behavior, Ahead of Print. The enactive approach characterizes life and cognition as sense-making. The standard description of sense-making entails the co-emergence of an agent’s self and a meaningful world, as well as the emergence of a normat…
Adaptive Behavior, Ahead of Print. Diversity of expertise is inherent to cultural evolution. When it is transparent, diversity of human knowledge is useful; when social conformity overcomes that transparency, “expertise” can lead to divisiveness. This …
Adaptive Behavior, Ahead of Print. Immersive learning environments in education provide a set of rich and diverse learning affordances (possibilities). Cognition in such environments can be considered as embodied, enacted, embedded, and extended (the 4…
Adaptive Behavior, Ahead of Print. In a recent remarkable article, Froese (2023) presents his Irruption Theory to explain how motivations can make a behavioral difference in motivated activity. In this opinion article, we review the main tenets of Froe…
Adaptive Behavior, Ahead of Print. The emergence of altruistic behaviors in heterogeneous populations of autonomous robots, especially in signaling tasks, has proven to be a difficult problem to solve. However signaling and altruistic behaviors are pre…
Adaptive Behavior, Ahead of Print. An affordance perspective highlights how resourceful the ecology is for creative actions of all sorts; it captures how creativity is grounded in materiality. In contrast to “canonical affordances” (i.e., “ready-to-han…
Adaptive Behavior, Ahead of Print. Interestingly, the interactions between members of a social group and across people of different social groups often happen through mutual understanding and reciprocate behaviour by means of gestures or eye contact. A…