There is increasing awareness that epistasis or gene-gene interaction plays a role in
susceptibility to common human diseases. In this paper, we formulate a working hypothesis …

A major focus of recent work on the spatial patterning of health has been the study of how
features of residential environments or neighborhoods may affect health. Place effects on …

How accurate is the picture of the human mind that has emerged from studies in
neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science? Anybody with an interest in how minds …

What is phenomenology? This chapter addresses this question by reviewing some classic
definitions and then by looking briefly at the historical development of phenomenology …

Individual-based models are an exciting and widely used new tool for ecology. These
computational models allow scientists to explore the mechanisms through which population …

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The embodied and situated approach to artificial intelligence (AI) has matured and become
a viable alternative to traditional computationalist approaches with respect to the practical …

There is a growing realization in cognitive science that a theory of embodied intersubjectivity
is needed to better account for social cognition. We highlight some challenges that must be …

The concept of “autonomy”, once at the core of the original enactivist proposal in The
Embodied Mind (Varela et al. in The embodied mind: cognitive science and human …

Epistasis plays an important role in the genetic architecture of common human diseases and
can be viewed from two perspectives, biological and statistical, each derived from and …