"enaction" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "a wide spectrum of tics and compulsive movements […] which were enactions of sudden urges.",
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          "ref": "1991, Takuya Katayama, Support for the Software Process, page 151",
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          "ref": "2017, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Thomas Buhrmann, Xabier E. Barandiaran, Sensorimotor Life: An Enactive Proposal, page 76",
          "text": "The processes that underlie the organization and honing of these skills operate over a wide range of timescales, which include the enaction of a particular perceptual act at one end and the lifetime development of perception-action capabilities at the other.",
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          "ref": "2018, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Elena Clare Cuffari, Hanne De Jaegher, Linguistic Bodies: The Continuity between Life and Language",
          "text": "The first mention of enaction as a history of couplings that bring forth a world referred to the activity of \"sensorimotor networks\". (Varela et al. 1991)",
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          "ref": "2019, Mariusz Kozak, Enacting Musical Time: The Bodily Experience of New Music, page 54",
          "text": "Third, drawing on enaction and embodiment gives us the means for considering actions taken in response to musical sounds as sufficient for cognition, and thus constitutive of listeners' musical understanding.",
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