Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists

In this final chapter, Turvey lays out the basics of the ecological approach to coordinating action with respect to the future. This is actu...

This chapter is about the mechanical consequences of interacting with the environment; what happens when we come into physical contact with ...

This chapter focuses on the perception side of the perception-action system we will end up with for behaviour. It covers the objects of perc...

The 'barrage of conceptual details that was Lecture 22' has provided us with the notion of affordances, and these are to be the obje...

After a book length set of preliminaries, we are finally getting to the meat of the positive case the ecological approach has to make. That ...

Last Lecture Turvey introduced the notion of ecological realism; realism that has a species-dependence to it. Normally a realism is for ever...

Turvey has finally arrived at the ecological approach, but all the preceding chapters have made it such that there are preliminaries to deal...

The final lecture about the computational-representational perspective is focused on the general claim that intelligent action can arise fro...

We have encountered the idea in Lectures 6 and 16 that perception might be formalised as a form of computation, and that this might be the s...

Last Lecture   Turvey reviewed the basics of the computational approach, and highlighted again how it is just the latest iteration of the Ca...

The next four Lectures are specifically focused on the modern form of the Cartesian programme - the computational-representational approach....

The two previous lectures reviewed some of the changes happening in related fields to psychology that were showing up in Gestalt psychology,...

In the previous Lecture, Turvey discussed the machine metaphor in which things are just equal to the sum of their parts. In this Lecture, Tu...

We are nearing the end of the Foundational Concepts  section of the book, and we have arrived at one final historical attempts to explain pe...

This Lecture is in roughly two parts. The first brief section walks through a Helmhotzian method for perceiving depth via unconscious infere...

This Lecture is about Helmholtz, and his theory of sensations being integrated into perceptual experience via unconscious inference. Everyth...

The previous two lectures have covered aspects of the problem of space perception. We perceive objects, and these inhabit space - they are a...

The first space enigma was the fact that vision lives in the two dimensions of Flatland, but produces an experience of three dimensional Sp...

One of the big problems that emerges from all the proceeding discussions of perception is how we are able to perceive space . Space has bee...

I have now reviewed the first 7 Lectures on Perception from Turvey' textbook ( posts indexed here ). I feel like I've reached a natu...