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dc.contributor.authorPetters, Dean David
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-05T14:41:23Z
dc.date.available2019-04-05T14:41:23Z
dc.date.issued2016-08-03
dc.identifier.citationPetters, D. (2016) An encounter between 4e cognition and attachment theory, Connection Science, 28(4), pp. 387-409.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09540091.2016.1214947en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/622264
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores a constructive revision of the conceptual underpinnings of Attachment Theory through an encounter with the diverse elements of 4e cognition. Attachment relationships involve the development of preference for one or a few carers and expectations about their availability and responsiveness as a haven of safety and a base from which to explore. In attachment theory, mental representations have been assigned a central organising role in explaining attachment phenomena. The 4e cognition approaches in cognitive science raise a number of questions about the development and interplay of attachment and cognition. These include: (1) the nature of what Bowlby called ‘internal working models of attachment’; (2) the extent to which the infant–carer dyad functions as an extension of the infant's mind; and (3) whether Bowlby's attachment control system concept can be usefully re-framed in enactive terms where traditional cognitivist representations are: (3i) substituted for sensorimotor skill-focused mediating representations; (3ii) viewed as arising from autopoietic living organisms; and/or (3iii) mostly composed from the non-contentful mechanisms of basic minds? A theme that cross-cuts these research questions is how representations for capturing meaning, and structures for adaptive control, are both required to explain the full range of behaviour of interest to Attachment Theory researchers.en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09540091.2016.1214947?journalCode=ccos20en
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.subject4e cognitionen
dc.subjectAttachment theoryen
dc.subjectembodied cognitionen
dc.subjectenactivismen
dc.subjectextended minden
dc.titleAn encounter between 4e cognition and attachment theoryen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.identifier.journalConnection Scienceen
dc.date.accepted2016-06-01
rioxxterms.funderUniversity of Wolverhamptonen
rioxxterms.identifier.projectUOW050419DPen
rioxxterms.versionAMen
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2019-04-05en
dc.source.volume28
dc.source.issue4
dc.source.beginpage387
dc.source.endpage409
refterms.dateFCD2019-04-05T14:41:05Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
refterms.dateFOA2019-04-05T14:41:24Z


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