Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists

About 3 weeks ago I got an email from a person who had found our blog via Robert Epstein's piece ' The Empty Brain '. The email...

I've just discovered a treasure trove of 30 talks recorded at the 2015 International Conference on Perception and Action (the main US e...

A new paper in Psychonomic Bulletin and Review ( Goldinger, Papesh, Barnhart, Hansen & Hout, 2015 ) has taken a swing at the field of em...

Faster, higher, stronger - wobbly! When we run, our arms and legs swing in an alternating rhythm. Your left arm swings back as your left...

Would a formal reply make me this guy? I've been exchanging views with Art Glenberg and his colleagues about a paper he published re...

UPDATE 9 June 2015: We published this critique .  Around about the time we published our  embodied cognition paper , we also reviewed a pa...

I recently reviewed a paper for Frontiers by Arthur Glenberg and colleagues called ' Sensory motor mechanisms unify psychology: the emb...

Perception is an act of measurement, and, like all acts of measurement, it needs a scale in order to be useful. Think about placing someth...

One of the major reasons psychologists think we have mental representations is to overcome delays in the nervous system. Information has to ...

Brains, HUH, yeah, what are they good for? When we say "there are no mental representations", people often hear 'the brain...

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

I have my doubts about psychology.  Anyone who's read this blog before knows that Andrew and I are fairly opinionated about what we th...

Our Frontiers paper made the case that embodied cognition is, by definition, a fairly radical affair. We argue  ...if perception-action...

Whoops, we did it again - a paper based on the blog! This time we are in press at Frontiers in Psychology, in a Research Topic on embodie...

UPDATE: This topic is now live! We welcome all and any submissions that fit the remit. Please email Andrew if you are interested and I wi...

Psychological Science , I think we need to talk. I was reading this farewell from your outgoing editor , and it would all be nice enough if ...

Small effects sometimes matter - but psychology can do better One of the things that bugs me about 'embodied' cognition researc...

'Embodied Cognition', by philosopher Lawrence Shapiro, is not a book advocating for any particular brand of embodiment. Instead, S...

Michael Britt ( @mbritt on Twitter) runs the popular Psych Files podcast , which is downloaded by thousands of students and interested peo...

One of the most common comments about ecological psychology is that it's hard to imagine how it could apply to things like language. T...