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Overview

Ezequiel A. Di Paolo is affiliated with the University of the Basque Country in Spain. Their research focuses primarily on Neuroscience and Psychology, with notable contributions in subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Philosophy, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The scientist's work spans several topics, reflecting a broad engagement with cognitive and social dimensions of neuroscience. Key areas of study include:

  • Embodied and Extended Cognition
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Social Representations and Identity
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Child and Animal Learning Development

Among recent papers by Ezequiel A. Di Paolo are the following:

  • "Enactive Ethics: Difference Becoming Participation", 2021, published in Topoi
  • "Enactive becoming", 2020, published in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
  • "Laying down a forking path: Tensions between enaction and the free energy principle", 2022, published in Philosophy and the Mind Sciences

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Fernando Bermejo
  • Mercedes X. Hüg
  • Hanne De Jaegher
  • Fabián C. Tommasini
  • Randall D. Beer

Ezequiel A. Di Paolo often publishes in venues such as:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Physics of Life Reviews
  • Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Topoi

Best Publications

  • Participatory sense-making

    Hanne De Jaegher;Ezequiel Di Paolo

  • Can social interaction constitute social cognition

    Hanne De Jaegher;Ezequiel Di Paolo;Shaun Gallagher;Shaun Gallagher

  • Enaction: Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science

    John Robert Stewart;Olivier Gapenne;Ezequiel A. Di Paolo

  • Extended Life

    Ezequiel Di Paolo

  • Defining Agency: Individuality, Normativity, Asymmetry, and Spatio-temporality in Action

    Xabier E. Barandiaran;Ezequiel Di Paolo;Marieke Rohde

  • Sensorimotor life: An enactive proposal.

    Ezequiel A. Di Paolo;Thomas Buhrmann;Xabier E. Barandiaran

  • The enactive approach: Theoretical sketches from cell to society

    Tom Froese;Ezequiel A. Di Paolo

  • The interactive brain hypothesis

    Ezequiel Alejandro Di Paolo;Ezequiel Alejandro Di Paolo;Hanne eDe Jaegher;Hanne eDe Jaegher

  • Horizons for the Enactive Mind: Values, Social Interaction, and Play

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  • Linguistic Bodies: The Continuity between Life and Language

    Ezequiel A. Di Paolo;Elena Clare Cuffari;Hanne De Jaegher

  • Evolutionary Robotics: A New Scientific Tool for Studying Cognition

    Inman Harvey;Ezequiel Di Paolo;Rachel Wood;Matt Quinn

  • The enactive approach

    Ezequiel Di Paolo;Evan Thompson

  • From participatory sense-making to language: there and back again

    Elena Clare Cuffari;Ezequiel Di Paolo;Ezequiel Di Paolo;Ezequiel Di Paolo;Hanne De Jaegher;Hanne De Jaegher

  • A genealogical map of the concept of habit

    Xabier E Barandiaran;Ezequiel Alejandro Di Paolo;Ezequiel Alejandro Di Paolo;Ezequiel Alejandro Di Paolo

  • A dynamical systems account of sensorimotor contingencies

    Thomas Buhrmann;Ezequiel Alejandro Di Paolo;Ezequiel Alejandro Di Paolo;Ezequiel Alejandro Di Paolo;Xabier Barandiaran

  • behavioral coordination structural congruence and entrainment in a simulation of acoustically coupled agents

    Ezequiel A. Di Paolo

  • Sensitivity to social contingency or stability of interaction? Modelling the dynamics of perceptual crossing

    Ezequiel A. Di Paolo;Marieke Rohde;Marieke Rohde;Hiroyuki Iizuka;Hiroyuki Iizuka

  • Sociality and the life–mind continuity thesis

    Tom Froese;Ezequiel A. Di Paolo

  • Enaction and Psychology

    Marek McGann;Hanne De Jaegher;Ezequiel Di Paolo

  • The sense of agency – a phenomenological consequence of enacting sensorimotor schemes

    Thomas Buhrmann;Ezequiel Di Paolo;Ezequiel Di Paolo;Ezequiel Di Paolo

  • How (not) to model autonomous behaviour.

    Ezequiel A. Di Paolo;Hiroyuki Iizuka;Hiroyuki Iizuka

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaun Gallagher
Shaun Gallagher University of Memphis
Peter M. Todd
Peter M. Todd Indiana University
Anthony Chemero
Anthony Chemero University of Cincinnati
Evan Thompson
Evan Thompson University of British Columbia
Kenneth J. Gergen
Kenneth J. Gergen Swarthmore College
Simon Kirby
Simon Kirby University of Edinburgh
Niels Birbaumer
Niels Birbaumer University of Tübingen
Ralph Adolphs
Ralph Adolphs California Institute of Technology

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