Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists

As part of a class on cognitive psychology, I give a seminar in which we talk about the research on the relationship between language and th...

I had a conversation with Eric Brymer  ( @Ericbrymer ) a few weeks ago. Eric is a Reader at Leeds Beckett and is an ecologically minded psy...

Everyone and their dog has a theory about how to interpret Gibson's famously vague definition of affordances; The affordances of the e...

Optic flow is everywhere, all the time (same with other energy arrays, like the acoustic array ). We depend on this fact deeply. When we ar...

The great snare of the psychologist is the confusion of his own standpoint with that of the mental fact about which he is making his repor...

I have this problem where I like pretty much everything William Bechtel writes except when it pertains to cognitive science. It's annoyi...

I previously laid out how specification works and why it's important to the ecological approach. Read that first, because I build on it...

A common response to the claim that we are not information processors  is that this simply cannot be true, because it is self-evidently the ...

One of the apparently controversial things that I say is that psychology, as a science, needs to address function before it gets worried abo...

Perception is how we maintain psychological contact with functionally relevant objects and events in our environments. Explaining how we do ...

'Note for a tentative redefinition of behaviour', 1975.  James J Gibson ran an afternoon seminar for many years at Cornell. This...