Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists

The ecological hypothesis is that we perceive properties of the environment and ourselves using information variables that specify those pro...

The most commonly studied tasks in the ecological approach involve the perceptual control of actions such as interception and steering. Thes...

This post is based on a talk I just gave at the Finding Common Ground Conference at the University of Connecticut. Please excuse the Power P...

I want to follow on from Sabrina's important posts about information , and why psychology should be about information for the forseeable...

I've become fascinated with the problem of pictures and how they relate to the things they are pictures of. One reason is the regular ...

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...

In the last post, I discussed the similarities and differences between language and other types of information. From the first person per...

Add psychology to the list A fairly common response to our theory post was 'here's my theory, which is designed to replace and ...

Psychology has a problem. We have no core theory to guide our research; no analogue to the theories of evolution or relativity. When parti...

There are a lot of books about embodied cognition. Like psychology itself, the idea that cognition might not all be in the head has fractu...

I've been wanting to blog this paper, Bingham (1988; download link ), for some time, and I've had the excuse to be reading it this ...

Over Easter I visited the Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience at Aarhus University in Denmark, courtesy of the Interacting Mi...

Last time I went over affordances-as-dispositions, and Chemero's first swing at affordances-as-relations. Affordances can't be dis...

In the previous chapter , Chemero laid out his first idea as to how a radical embodied cognitive science could be a science; he suggested t...