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The conventional medical paradigm often focuses on deficits and impairments, failing to capture the rich tapestry of experiences and abilities inherent in neurodiversity conditions. In this article, we introduce the 3E-Cognition perspective, offering a paradigm shift by emphasizing the dynamic interplay between the brain, body, and environment in shaping cognitive processes. The perspective fosters a more inclusive and supportive understanding of neurodiversity, with potential applications across various domains such as education, workplace, and healthcare. We begin by introducing the 3E-Cognition principles: embodied, environmentally scaffolded, and enactive. Then, we explore how the 3E-Cognition perspective can be applied to create inclusive environments and experiences for neurodiverse individuals. We provide examples in the realms of education, workplace, and healthcare. In all of these domains, spaces, methodologies, epistemologies, and roles that cater to diverse needs and strengths can be designed using the 3E principles. Finally, we discuss the challenges and benefits of implementing the 3E-Cognition perspective. We focus on the need for technological advancements and research in complex real-world scenarios; we suggest mobile brain/body imaging is a possible solution. We furthermore highlight the importance of recognizing and valuing the diverse manners of experiencing and interacting with the world, the promotion of diverse well-being, and the facilitation of innovation and creativity. Thus, we conclude that the 3E-Cognition perspective offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding and supporting neurodiversity: by embracing the inherent interconnectedness of the brain, body, and environment, we can create a more inclusive and supportive world.

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Resumen El campo de la cognición ha tenido una larga historia en la que los modelos formales, el cuerpo y la interacción con el mundo físico y social han tenido significados y papeles variados. En los últimos años, las propuestas han intentado reintroducir el cuerpo y la variabilidad cognitiva resultante de la sensibilidad a contextos ricos e impredecibles. Este artículo presenta el enactivismo autopoiético, una de las versiones esenciales de las teorías encarnadas dentro de las ciencias cognitivas, señalando algunas limitaciones de las teorías clásicas de procesamiento de la información y sus nociones de representación. En este distanciamiento, las ciencias cognitivas han recuperado el cuerpo, la sensibilidad y flexibilidad de los procesos cognitivos, la naturaleza dinámica de la experiencia y el valor de los sistemas culturales que sustentan la actividad cognitiva.

Resumo O campo da cognição tem uma longa história na qual modelos formais, o corpo, e a interação com o mundo físico e social tiveram significados e papéis variados. Nos últimos anos, as propostas tentaram reintroduzir o corpo e a variabilidade cognitiva resultante da sensibilidade a contextos ricos e imprevisíveis. Este artigo apresenta o enativismo autopoiético, uma das versões essenciais das teorias corporizadas dentro das ciências cognitivas, apontando algumas limitações das teorias clássicas de processamento de informação e as suas noções de representação. Nesse distanciamento, as ciências cognitivas recuperaram o corpo, a sensibilidade e flexibilidade dos processos cognitivos, a natureza dinâmica da experiência e o valor dos sistemas culturais que sustentam a atividade cognitiva.

Abstract The field of cognition has had a long history where formal models, the body, and interaction with the physical and social world have had varied meanings and roles. In recent years, proposals have tried to reintroduce the body and the cognitive variability resulting from sensitivity to rich and unpredictable contexts. This article presents the autopoietic enactivism, one of the essential versions of embodied theories within the cognitive sciences, pointing out some limitations of classical information processing theories and their notions of representation. In this distancing, cognitive sciences have recovered the body, the sensitivity and flexibility of cognitive processes, the dynamic nature of experience, and the value of the cultural systems that support cognitive activity.

Résumé Le domaine de la cognition a connu une longue histoire dans laquelle les modèles formels, le corps et l'interaction avec le monde physique et social ont eu des significations et des rôles variés. Ces dernières années, des propositions ont tenté de réintroduire le corps et la variabilité cognitive résultant de la sensibilité à des contextes riches et imprévisibles. Cet article présente l'enactivisme autopoïétique, l'une des versions essentielles des théories incarnées au sein des sciences cognitives, en soulignant certaines limites des théories classiques du traitement de l'information et de leurs notions de représentation. Avec cet écartement, les sciences cognitives ont récupéré le corps, la sensibilité et la flexibilité des processus cognitifs, la nature dynamique de l'expérience et la valeur des systèmes culturels qui soutiennent l'activité cognitive.

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Resumen (analítico) Este estudio tiene como objetivo describir la adaptación de las ideas de la cognición 4E en el estudio del aprendizaje de las matemáticas en la investigación contemporánea, de manera que pueda proporcionar estrategias para cualificar los procesos pedagógicos y didácticos en las aulas en tiempos de pospandemia. Se realizó la búsqueda de artículos a texto completo en las bases de datos Science Direct y Ebsco Academic Search Ultimate, de los últimos cuatro años. Se seleccionaron 56 artículos, que se analizaron mediante análisis de conglomerados, nubes de palabras y mapas jerárquicos en Nvivo 11. Se obtuvieron cuatro núcleos temáticos (andamiaje, trayectoria socio-cultural, numerosidad y adquisición de conceptos básicos en matemáticas y exploración de nichos matemáticos) que permiten avanzar en la implementación de mejoras en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje en pospandemia.

Abstract (analytical) This study aims to describe the adaptation of the ideas of 4E cognition in research on Mathematics learning in contemporary research. These ideas can provide strategies to improve pedagogical and didactic processes in classrooms during the post-pandemic period. Fulltext articles published in the last 4 years were searched for in the Science Direct and Ebsco Academic Search Ultimate databases. A total of 56 articles were selected and were analyzed through the generation of cluster analysis, word clouds and hierarchical maps in the NVivo 11 software. Four thematic cores were identified (scaffolding; sociocultural trajectory; numeracy and acquisition of basic concepts in mathematics; and exploration of mathematical niches) that contribute to improvements in teaching and learning in the post-pandemic period.

Resumo (analítico) Este estudo tem como objetivo descrever a adaptação das ideias da cognição 4E no estudo da aprendizagem da Matemática na pesquisa contemporânea, de modo que possa fornecer estratégias para qualificar processos pedagógicos e didáticos em sala de aula em tempos pós-pandêmicos. Artigos de texto completo foram pesquisados nas bases de dados Science Direct e Ebsco Academic Search Ultimate nos últimos 4 anos. Foram selecionados 56 artigos, os quais foram analisados por meio de análise de cluster, nuvem de palavras e mapas hierárquicos no Nvivo 11. Foram obtidos quatro núcleos temáticos (andaimes, trajetória sociocultural, multiplicidade e aquisição de conceitos básicos em matemática e exploração de nichos matemáticos) que permitem avançar na implementação de melhorias no ensino e aprendizagem no pós-pandemia.

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The complexity of the human mind and its interaction with the environment is one of the main epistemological debates throughout history. Recent ideas, framed as the 4E perspective to cognition, highlight that human experience depends causally on both cerebral and extracranial processes, but also is embedded in a particular sociomaterial context and is a product of historical accumulation of trajectory changes throughout life. Accordingly, the human microbiome is one of the most intriguing actors modulating brain function and physiology. Here, we present the 4E approach to the Human Microbiome for understanding mental processes from a broader perspective, encompassing one's body physiology and environment throughout their lifespan, interconnected by microbiome community structure and dynamics. We review evidence supporting the approach theoretically and motivates the study of the global set of microbial ecosystem networks encountered by a person across their lifetime (from skin to gut to natural and built environments). We furthermore trace future empirical implementation of the approach. We finally discuss novel research opportunities and clinical interventions aimed toward developing low-cost/high-benefit integrative and personalized bio-psycho-socio-environmental treatments for mental health and including the brain-gut-microbiome axis.

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Recent technological advancements encompassed under the Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI) framework have produced exciting new experimental results linking mind, brain and behaviour. Nevertheless, novel hypotheses, measures and experimental paradigms are needed in order to tackle MoBI's ultimate goal: to model and understand cognition, behaviour and experience as it emerges and unfolds unto and from the world. Such a goal is not completely novel or unique to the MoBI framework; it is at the core of a long-standing scientific and philosophical challenge. The ages-long debate revolves around the role of the body and the world on the emergence of the mind. Considering this, the present work has two goals. Our first goal is to briefly summarize some of the main ideas encompassed by the materialist/naturalist view of cognition as a complex emergent phenomenon. Our second and main goal is to argue that thanks to both MoBI and recent theoretical advances encompassed under the 4E-Cognition banner, theory and methodology might be finally synchronized, giving way to a revitalized form of emergentism, which lays new grounds for the understanding of cognitive phenomena. Finally, we offer the reader what we consider to be the main objective for the MoBI/4E framework and the understanding of the functional role of brain/body/world couplings in the emergence of cognition.

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Habits are the topic of a venerable history of research that extends back to antiquity, yet they were originally disregarded by the cognitive sciences. They started to become the focus of interdisciplinary research in the 1990s, but since then there has been a stalemate between those who approach habits as a kind of bodily automatism or as a kind of mindful action. This implicit mind-body dualism is ready to be overcome with the rise of interest in embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive (4E) cognition. We review the enactive approach and highlight how it moves beyond the traditional stalemate by integrating both autonomy and sense-making into its theory of agency. It defines a habit as an adaptive, precarious, and self-sustaining network of neural, bodily, and interactive processes that generate dynamical sensorimotor patterns. Habits constitute a central source of normativity for the agent. We identify a potential shortcoming of this enactive account with respect to bad habits, since self-maintenance of a habit would always be intrinsically good. Nevertheless, this is only a problem if, following the mainstream perspective on habits, we treat habits as isolated modules. The enactive approach replaces this atomism with a view of habits as constituting an interdependent whole on whose overall viability the individual habits depend. Accordingly, we propose to define a bad habit as one whose expression, while positive for itself, significantly impairs a person's well-being by overruling the expression of other situationally relevant habits. We conclude by considering implications of this concept of bad habit for psychological and psychiatric research, particularly with respect to addiction research.