Author: Branded Bodies

Aesthetic appreciation -1

Berleant, A. (2015). Aesthetic sensibility. Ambiance: International journal of sensory environment, architecture and urban space.

Chih-i (2014). Stopping and seeing: A comprehensive course in Buddhist meditation. (T. Cleary, Trans; 1st ed.) [ebook]. Shambhala publications. (Original work published in 2000).

Sarasso, P., Neppi-Modona, M., Sacco, K., & Ronga, I. (2020). “Stopping for knowledge”: The sense of beauty in the perception-action cycle. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 118, 723-738.

Prediction dissonance

Clark, A. (2016). Surfing uncertainty: Prediction, action, and the embodied mind. Oxford University Press.

Clark, A. (2023). The experience machine: how our minds predict and shape reality. Penguin Books, UK.

Festinger, L. (1957). A theory of cognitive dissonance. Stanford University Press.

Harmon-Jones, E., Harmon-Jones, C., & Levy, N. (2015). An action-based model of cognitive-dissonance processes. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24(3), 184-189.

Kaaronen, R. O. (2018). A theory of predictive dissonance: Predictive processing presents a new take on cognitive dissonance. Frontiers in psychology, 9, 2218.

MacFarquhar, L. (2018). The mind-expanding ideas of Andy Clark. The New Yorker, 26.

The brain as a prediction processor

Badcock, P. B., Friston, K. J., Ramstead, M. J., Ploeger, A., & Hohwy, J. (2019). The hierarchically mechanistic mind: an evolutionary systems theory of the human brain, cognition, and behavior. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 19, 1319-1351.

de Lange, F. P. d., Heilbron, M., & Kok, P. (2018). How do expectations shape perception? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(9), 764-779.

Walsh, K. S., McGovern, D. P., Clark, A., & O’Connell, R. G. (2020). Evaluating the neurophysiological evidence for predictive processing as a model of perception. Annals of the new York Academy of Sciences, 1464(1), 242-268.

Emotions + learning

Clark, A. (2018). A nice surprise? Predictive processing and the active pursuit of novelty. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 17(3), 521-534.

Festinger, L. (1957). A theory of cognitive dissonance. Stanford University Press.

Joffily, M., & Coricelli, G. (2013). Emotional valence and the free-energy principle. PLoS computational biology, 9(6), e1003094.

Oudeyer, P. Y., & Smith, L. B. (2016). How evolution may work through curiosity‐driven developmental process. Topics in Cognitive Science, 8(2), 492-502.

Exploration + Interoception

Craig, A. D. (2003). Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body. Current opinion in neurobiology, 13(4), 500-505.

Critchley, H. D., & Garfinkel, S. N. (2017). Interoception and emotion. Current opinion in psychology, 17, 7-14.

Ramsay, D. S., & Woods, S. C. (2014). Clarifying the roles of homeostasis and allostasis in physiological regulation. Psychological review, 121(2), 225.

Quadt, L., Critchley, H. D., & Garfinkel, S. N. (2018). Interoception and emotion: shared mechanisms and clinical implications. In M. Tsakiris & H. De Preester (eds.). The Interoceptive Mind: From Homeostasis to Awareness , (pp. 123-143). Oxford Academic.