Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Salento, Via di Valesio 24, 73100, Lecce, Italy.
Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Piazza Capitaniato 3, 35139, Padova, Italy.
Phys Life Rev. 2024 Sep;50:143-165. doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.07.008. Epub 2024 Jul 31.
The paper presents the Affective Pertinentization model (APER), a theory of the affect and its role it plays in meaning-making. APER views the affect as the basic form of making sense of reality. It consists of a global, bipolar pattern of neurophysiological activity through which the organism maps the instant-by-instant variation of its environment. Such a pattern of neuropsychological activity is constituted by a plurality of bipolar affective dimensions, each of which maps a component of the environmental variability. The affect has a pluri-componential structure defining a multidimensional affective landscape that foregrounds (i.e., makes pertinent) a certain pattern of facets of the environment (e.g., its pleasantness/unpleasantness) relevant to survival, while backgrounding the others. Doing so, the affect grounds the following cognitive processes. Accordingly, meaning-making can be modeled as a function of the dimensionality of the affective landscape. The greater the dimensionality of the affective landscape, the more differentiated the system of meaning is. Following a brief review of current theories pertaining to the affect, the paper proceeds discussing the APER's core tenets - the multidimensional view of the affect, its semiotic function, and the concepts of Affective Landscape and Phase Space of Meaning. The paper then proceeds deepening the relationship between the APER model and other theories, highlighting how the APER succeeds in framing original conceptualizations of several challenging issues - the intertwinement between affect and sensory modalities, the manner in which the mind constitutes the content of the experience, the determinants of psychopathology, the intertwinement of mind and culture, and the spreading of affective forms of thinking and behaving in society. Finally, the unsolved issues and future developments of the model are briefly envisaged.
本文提出了情感相关化模型（APER），这是一种关于情感及其在意义构建中作用的理论。APER 将情感视为理解现实的基本形式。它由一种全球性的、两极的神经生理活动模式组成，通过这种模式，生物体可以映射其环境的即时变化。这种神经心理活动模式由多个两极情感维度构成，每个维度都映射环境可变性的一个组成部分。这种情感具有多成分结构，定义了多维情感景观，突出（即相关）与生存相关的环境方面的某些模式（例如，其愉悦/不愉快），而将其他方面背景化。这样做，情感为以下认知过程提供基础。因此，意义构建可以建模为情感景观的维度性的函数。情感景观的维度性越大，意义系统的分化程度就越高。在简要回顾了当前与情感相关的理论之后，本文继续讨论了 APER 的核心原则——情感的多维观点、其符号学功能，以及情感景观和意义相空间的概念。然后，本文深入探讨了 APER 模型与其他理论之间的关系，强调了 APER 如何成功地对几个具有挑战性的问题提出了原创的概念化——情感与感觉模式的交织、心灵构成体验内容的方式、精神病理学的决定因素、心灵与文化的交织，以及情感形式的思维和行为在社会中的传播。最后，简要展望了模型的未解决问题和未来发展。
