FRONTAL CORTEX, THE MIND, AND THE BODY
Commentary on Abbruzzeze et al. on Frontal-Cortex

<hr> E.J. Neafsey (1993) Frontal Cortex, the Mind, and the Body. Psycoloquy: 4(15) Frontal Cortex (2)<br>Versions: <a href=ftp://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/psycoloquy//1993.volume.4/psyc.93.4.15.frontal-cortex.2.neafsey>ASCII</a> <a href=http://www.cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?4.15>formatted</a><hr>
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<H1>FRONTAL CORTEX, THE MIND, AND THE BODY<br>
Commentary on Abbruzzeze et al. on Frontal-Cortex<br>
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<ADDRESS>E.J. Neafsey<br>
Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy<br>
Loyola University Medical Center<br>
2160 S. First Avenue<br>
Maywood, IL 60153 USA<br>
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KEYWORDS: cognitive disorder, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex,<br>
mental disorder, neuropsychology, obsessive-compulsive disorder,<br>
orbitofrontal cortex, psychosis, schizophrenia.<br>
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<a href=mailto:eneafsey@lucpug.it.luc.edu>eneafsey@lucpug.it.luc.edu</a> 
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<P><H1>Abstract</H1><BLOCKQUOTE>
The fundamental problem with attempting to understand
frontal cortical function using the computer-inspired,
functionalist models of contemporary cognitive science is that such
models are by definition "disembodied." As a result, the brain as
well as the mind tends to become disembodied, even "ghostly," in
the traditional, dualistic, Cartesian fashion, (Ryle [1949/1984]
notwithstanding). Far better are attempts rooted in the views of
Hughlings Jackson, for whom the brain from "bottom to top" never
lost its fundamental and basic bodily orientation. Human beings
think and know in an inescapably and inherently bodily manner, even
at the "highest levels" of the prefrontal cortex. As Gleick (1992)
notes in his biography of Richard Feynman, the physicist legendary
for his intuitive understanding of the abstract and unimaginable
theories of quantum mechanics, "Those who watched Feynman in
moments of intense concentration came away with a strong, even
disturbing sense of the physicality of the process, as though his
brain did not stop with the gray matter but extended through every
muscle in his body."
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<P><H1>Keywords</H1><i>
cognitive disorder, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex,
mental disorder, neuropsychology, obsessive-compulsive disorder,
orbitofrontal cortex, psychosis, schizophrenia.
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