This Brief introduces two empirically grounded models of situated mental phenomena: contextual
social cognition (the collection of psychological processes underlying context-dependent social
behavior) and action-language coupling (the integration of ongoing actions with
movement-related verbal information). It combines behavioral neuroscientific and
neuropsychiatric perspectives to forge a novel view of contextual influences on active
multi-domain processes. Chapters highlight the models' translational potential for the clinical
field by focusing on diseases compromising social cognition (mainly illustrated by behavioral
variant frontotemporal dementia) and motor skills (crucially Parkinson's disease). A final
chapter sets forth metatheoretical considerations regarding intercognition the constant
binding of processes triggered by environmental and body-internal sources which confers a
sensus communis to our experience. In addition the book includes two commentaries written by
external peers pondering on advantages and limits of the proposal. Contextual Cognition will be
of interest to students teachers and researchers from the fields of cognitive science
neurology psychiatry neuroscience psychology behavioral science linguistics and
philosophy.
