Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists

One of the more enduring arguments in ecological psychology is about the best way to formally describe affordances. The two basic approaches...

One common critique of the ecological approach is how can we use perception to explain behaviour that is organised with respect to things in...

So far we have learned what a mechanism is, two ways of modelling mechanisms (functional and mechanistic) and we've identified that cog...

I'm on my way back from an enactivist/embodiment conference in Warsaw. I gave a talk ( slides ) in which I argued that in order to make...

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One of Gibson's key contributions was to reveal that it was possible for the optic array to specify a meaningful property of the world....

Gibson proposed that specification was required in order for perceptual information to have meaning that was tied to the world in a manner...

The first thing I need to do in a discussion of specification is explain what it is and why it's important to ecological psychology. I...

A topic that has been flying under the radar a little in Sabrina's language posts is the issue of specification. Sabrina's ecolog...

The idea that affordances are dispositional properties of the environment is not immediately obvious, given the way everyone talks about t...