Open AccessOperationalizing the Relation Between Affect and Cognition With the Somatic Transform
Author(s) -
Neil J. MacKin,
Jesse Hoey
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
emotion review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.798
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1754-0747
pISSN - 1754-0739
DOI - 10.1177/17540739211014946
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , complementarity (molecular biology) , cognition , psychology , operationalization , cognitive psychology , categorization , relation (database) , meaning (existential) , social psychology , cognitive science , epistemology , artificial intelligence , communication , computer science , philosophy , genetics , database , neuroscience , psychotherapist , biology
This article introduces the somatic transform that operationalizes the relation between affect and cognition at the psychological level of analysis by capitalizing on the relation between the cognitive-denotative and affective-connotative meaning of concepts as measured with semantic differential rating scales. Following discussion of levels of analysis, the importance of language at the psychological level, and two principles (inextricability and complementarity) summarizing the relation between affect and cognition that are rendered explicit by the somatic transform, we present affect control theory (ACT) and its Bayesian extension (BayesACT) containing the somatic transform. We conclude by identifying examples of inextricability and complementarity in the social science and neuroscience literatures and discussing how our psychological model might be implemented in a realistic neural model.