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1 - Habit Formation, Inference, and Anticipation

Continuous Themes in a Pragmatist Neuroscientific Perspective

from Part 1 - The Sensorimotor Embodiment of Habits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2020

By
Jay Schulkin
Edited by
Fausto Caruana  and
Italo Testa
Fausto Caruana
Affiliation:
Institute of Neuroscience (Parma), Italian National Research Council
Italo Testa
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi, Parma
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Summary

The chapter will describe a pragmatist view of habit formation and of learning or inquiry. Indeed, one essential function of the brain is the formation of habits to suit contexts. Another major function of cephalic (mind, brain, body, world) sensibility is maintaining them. Habit formation in our species is tied to learning and inquiry; habit stability is mediated across the brain and continuous with the ecological/social milieu we are living in. There is a continuous thread between what is in the brain/body and what is not, in the neural organization of habits. The thread is quite permeable. Habits are sustained, or not, by the niche they are sculpted in, and evolve in or not.

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Habits
Pragmatist Approaches from Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Social Theory
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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