On Distinguishing Sensorial and Eliciting Epistemic Actions and on the Relationship between Perceptive Structure of Body and Cognitive Processes
Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: The present article is the fruit of part of an ethnographic re-search that I have carried out at an Italian hospital in order to analyze how cognition goes on in a surgical team. The paper has two main points: the distinction between two kinds of epistemic action specifically devoted to construct representa-tions in interaction with the environment and a reflection about the possible influences on cognitive processes of a change in the perceptive structure of human body. These two points are treated by means of two case studies: medical se-meiology and laparoscopic video-surgery, respectively. The aim of the article is to try to demonstrate the hypothesis that representations used in human cognitive processes arise from more or less structured physical interactions between human and environment and that a change in the perceptive relation-ship between body and environment may mean a change in the representational codes used in reasoning.
Author: Alberto Gatti
Institution: University of Siena
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2588012125