Hanneke
De Jaegher
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Postdoctoral Fellow Visiting Research Fellow research
Putting the interaction process at the centre of the
study of social understanding entails a detailed and focused examination of it.
This is being done in the social sciences (cf. interaction studies, conversation analysis, context analysis,...),
but it is a new idea in philosophy of mind and the cognitive sciences.
In my doctoral dissertation, I put forward an embodied, interactional framework of interpersonal understanding
that is closely affiliated with the enactive approach and dynamical systems.
One of the main aims of my research is to take recent embodied approaches to social cognition further.
In the dissertation I make a start with this by extending the enactive notion of sense-making
into the social domain, which allows me to characterise social cognition as participatory sense-making.
This is based on taking the interaction process seriously, and connecting the interpersonal coordination of movements
(incl. speech) in interaction with the coordination of sense-making activities. (For more details, see De Jaegher and
Di Paolo (2007) below.)
I also apply the idea of participatory sense-making to the disorder of autism, initially to have a testbed
for my ideas, but eventually I would like to see what the idea can mean for the diagnosis and remediation of the disorder.
Even though most of my work to date is theoretical, I draw on empirical research from a wide range of disciplines
including anthropology and linguistics, evolutionary robotics, minimal systems research, developmental,
experimental and clinical psychology, and I aim to do empirical work in one or two of these areas myself
in the future. questions What is the role of interaction dynamics in how we understand each other
in everyday encounters?
What empirical methods are available or can be developed for investigating this?
publications McGann, M and H De Jaegher (2009) Self-Other Contingencies: Enacting Social
Perception Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 8(4), 417-437
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Fuchs, T and H De Jaegher (2009) Enactive Intersubjectivity: Participatory
sense-making and mutual incorporation Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 8(4), 465-486
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De Jaegher, H and T Froese (2009) On the role of social interaction in individual agency.
Adaptive Behavior, 17(5), 444-460 pdf
De Jaegher, H (2009) Social understanding through direct perception?
Yes, by interacting. Consciousness and Cognition, 18(2), 535-542
pdf De Jaegher, H and E Di Paolo (2008) Making sense in participation. An enactive approach to social cognition. In Enacting Intersubjectivity: A Cognitive and Social Perspective to the Study of Interactions. Morganti, F, A Carassa and G Riva (eds). Amsterdam: IOS Press abstract De Jaegher, H and E Di Paolo (2007) Participatory sense-making: An enactive approach to social cognition. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 6(4), 485-507 pdf Di Paolo, E, M Rohde and H De Jaegher (Forthcoming) Horizons for the enactive mind: Values, social interaction and play. In: Enaction: Towards a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science. Stewart, J, O Gapenne and E Di Paolo (eds). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press final draft
news 5 July 09: 3 new papers - see publications 1 July 09: invited to speak at the Winter Symposium on "Dynamic models and social interaction,"
January 2010, Center for Semiotics in Aarhus 29 July 09: invited to participate in a symposium on "Entrainment, Joint Action and Ensemble,"
December 2009, Open University, UK 22 April 09: invited to present at the kick-off meeting of the new multidisciplinary aivoAALTO ("brainWAVE") research centre in Helsinki, Finland, in September (17th-19th). I presented, with Ezequiel Di Paolo, a talk on the enactive approach to social cognition at the Centro REDES in Buenos Aires on 22 April. I participated in the Philosophy of Perception Workshop at the University of Tokyo Philosophy Department (5-7 March) with an invited talk. I was an invited speaker at the Enacting Intersubjectivity conference in Lugano, Switserland, 13-14 February 2009 On February 10th, Ezequiel and I met with the Interacting Minds Group as well as the people at the Centre for Semiotics at the University of Aarhus and gave two invited talks. On 14th of January 09, I gave an (invited) Whitehead Lecture in "Cognition, Computation and Culture" about Interaction and Direct Perception at Goldsmiths College, London. August 29-1 Sep 08: we organised a workshop on Enactive Approaches to Social Cognition.
dphil thesis
Here is the pdf file of my dphil thesis entitled Social Interaction Rhythm and Participatory Sense-Making. An Embodied, Interactional Approach to Social Understanding, with Some Implications for Autism.
cv
My CV can be downloaded here (pdf).
some previous presentations (peer-reviewed and invited) De Jaegher, H and Di Paolo, E (2009) "Implications of the enactive definition of the social" Enacting Intersubjectivity, Lugano, Universit� della Svizzera Italiana, Switserland, 13-14 Feb
De Jaegher, H (2009) Invited talk (Whitehead Lecture in Cognition, Computation and Culture) Interaction and Direct Perception, Goldsmiths College, London, 14 Jan De Jaegher, H (2008) "Social understanding through direct perception? Yes, by interacting." Life and Mind seminar, University of Sussex, 26 Nov
Fuchs, T and De Jaegher, H (2008) "Non-representational intersubjectivity" DISCOS: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Disorders and Coherence of the Embodied Self, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 13-15 Nov De Jaegher, H (2008) "Enacting Autism: An intercorporeal and intersubjective perspective" Intercorporeality and Intersubjectivity Conference, University College Dublin, 6-7 June De Jaegher, H and E Di Paolo (2007) "Jointly shaping meaning: the interactional generation and transformation of semiotic media" The First Conference of the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition, Lund University, 29 Nov-1 Dec abstract De Jaegher, H (2007) "Participatory Sense-Making: Between embodied and narrative alternatives to mindreading" Self, Intersubjectivity and Social Neuroscience. From Mind and Action to Society, Torun, Poland, 20-22 Sep De Jaegher, H (2007) "Participatory Sense-Making and the Narrative Practice Hypothesis" Narrative Alternatives to Theories of Mind, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, 12-15 Jul abstract De Jaegher, H (2006) "Are people with autism the mindreaders here?" European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Queen's University, Belfast, 24-28 Aug abstract De Jaegher, H, R Wood and E Di Paolo (2006) "How does interactional coordination come about? Probing situated social cognition" Situated Cognition: Perspectives from Phenomenology and Science, Durham University, Durham, UK 18-20 Aug abstract De Jaegher, H and S Torrance (2005) "The Experience of Autism: An Enactive Approach" Constructing Consciousness, Mind and Being. British Psychological Society, Oxford, 16-18 Sep abstract De Jaegher, H and S Torrance (2005) "Enactive Perception and the Experience of Autism" Perception, Intersubjectivity and Development, Middlesex University/UCL Medical School, London, 24 Jun workshop program Di Paolo, E and H De Jaegher (2005) "Inter-action matters: sketches of a radical enactive approach to social understanding" Perception, Intersubjectivity and Development, Middlesex Uni/UCL Medical School, London, 24 Jun workshop program De Jaegher, H (2004) "Minds in Synchrony" First Joint Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Barcelona, 3-6 Jul poster De Jaegher, H (2003) "One Body is Not Enough: Autism and Development" Intersubjectivity and Embodiment. Perspectives from Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Higher Institute for Philosophy, Leuven, 15-16 Sep abstract De Jaegher, H (2003) "No Cognition without Development: Perception, Intersubjectivity and Autism" Enactive Consciousness: Perception, Intersubjectivity and Empathy, British Psychological Society, Oxford, 28-29 Jun abstract De Jaegher, H (2003) "On autism, social cognition and perception-action" The 16th White House Papers. University of Sussex, Brighton, UK paper De Jaegher, H (2002) "How autism shows the importance of social cognition and low-level explanations of cognition" The 15th White House papers. Graduate research in cognitive and computing sciences at Sussex paper
work I am involved with the project "Minimal perceptual crossing. A kinaesthetic-tactile feedback experimental platform" at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex (funded with an internal strategic research fund). Until 31 July 2007, I was research assistant to the Philosophy Group at the University of Hertfordshire. I assisted with grant applications, proofreading and copy-editing staff manuscripts and articles, editing volumes and the organisation of international conferences. Between February and September 2005, I was a research assistant with Prof. Steve Torrance, Middlesex University, London, on the project: "Autism and the Enactive Mind: Between the Object and the Social Realms". See De Jaegher and Torrance (2005; 2005) above. We organised a workshop. I worked as a tutor at the Sussex Autistic Society for five years, until August 2007.
links Marie Curie Research Training Network Disorders and Coherence of the Embodied Self
(DISCOS) Ruprecht Karls University, Heidelberg, DE Centre for Research in Cognitive Science
(COGS)
contact:
h . de . jaegher [apestaartje] sussex . ac . uk
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