Julien Laroche
Laboratoire ETIC, Université Paul Verlaine de Metz
Research theme
I'm working in the field of social cognitive neurosciences, in a comparative, cross-cultural fashion. Precisely, I'm interested in the causal explanation of human behaviour by human agents themselves. The point is to understand the nature of socio-cognitive processes as they are realized and constrained by the central nervous system on the one hand, and the way the functional organization of the brain is shaped by socio-cultural systems in which people interact on the other hand. Enaction theories seem to me to be the most relevant framework to articulate the individual / internal point of view with the social / external point of view.
Also, as a musician, I'm interested in enaction theories contributions to music.
Keywords: Social Cognitive Neurosciences, (Cross-)Cultural Cognition, Causal Attribution, Chinese Cognition, Music.
Video and experimental material
Monte Grande DVD (a movie about Francisco Varela)