Studies in Brain and Mind
Volume 1 / 2003 to Volume 23 / 2023
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Our paper is concerned with theories of direct perception in ecological psychology that first emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. Ecological psychology continues to be influential among philos...
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Volume 1 / 2003 to Volume 23 / 2023
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In his writings, Gibson firmly claimed that cultural or social factors could never distort perception. Cultural artefacts, social norms, language and signs were instead described as influencing perception and ...
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The enactive approach to cognition is presented as an attractive alternative to mainstream paradigms in the cognitive sciences, rejecting notions such as the ones of information processing, representation, and...
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In the last three decades, an interdisciplinary research program - called “the 4E approaches” - highlighted the necessity of rethinking the theoretical assumptions and experimental practices of mainstream cogn...
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Gibson defined affordances as action possibilities directly offered to an animal by the environment. Ambitiously, affordances are meant to show the inadequacy of the subjective-objective dichotomy in the study...