Patrones motores y atencionales en las emociones básicas : Estudio piloto sobre la codeterminación de la conducta y experiencia.

Abstract

This article proposes an understanding of basic emotions as global cognitive states grounded in the Model of the Three Dimensions of Behavior and Experience, based on Maturana and Varela's theories of Autopoiesis and Biology of Knowing. It is postulated that each basic emotion — fear, anger, joy, and sadness — constitutes a coherent modal configuration of motor and attentional patterns, whose specificity resides not in cultural labels but in the organism's sensorimotor structure. To examine this hypothesis, each emotional state was induced through specific movement sequences from the Cognitive-Corporeal Integration Method (MICC), and first-person experience descriptions were collected through microphenomenological interviews with ten participants experienced in the method. Phenomenological analysis with structured thematic coding revealed characteristic and differentiated experiential structures for each basic emotion. In all cases, the direction of movement (expansion/contraction) corresponded to attentional direction (extraversion/introversion), and muscular tone (hypotonia/hypertonia) to attentional breadth (divergent/convergent), without explicit instruction to participants. These findings provide evidence for the codetermination between behavior and experience and support the MICC as a body-based emotional modulation tool.