Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists

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

One of my main experimental tasks is coordinated rhythmic movement . This is a simple lab task in which I ask people to produce rhythmic mov...

Direct learning ( Jacobs & Michaels, 2007 ) is an ecological hypothesis about the process of perceptual learning. I describe the theory ...

In my previous post I laid out the direct learning framework developed by Jacobs & Michaels (2007) . In this post, I'm going to eval...

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

Throwing a projectile in order to hit a target requires you to produce one lot of the set of release parameters that result in a hit; releas...

Gibson's ecological psychology is weird, if you are coming from a more traditional information-processing background. The two approaches...