Synergy Makes Direct Perception Inefficient. [PDF]
A typical claim in anti-representationalist approaches to cognition such as ecological psychology or radical embodied cognitive science is that ecological information is sufficient for guiding behavior. According to this view, affordances are immediately perceptually available to the agent (in the so-called “ambient energy array”), so sensory data does
de Llanza Varona M, Martínez M.
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Direct perception of affective valence from vision. [PDF]
Affect has been posited as the basic subjective feeling component underlying all experience, arising directly from internal states of the body and the closely related proximal senses. By contrast, in the distal senses such as vision, affect is thought to be indirect, largely mediated by higher level processes.
Sadeghi S +4 more
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The direct perception hypothesis: perceiving the intention of another's action hinders its precise imitation. [PDF]
We argue that imitation is a learning response to unintelligible actions, especially to social conventions. Various strands of evidence are converging on this conclusion, but further progress has been hampered by an outdated theory of perceptual ...
Froese T, Leavens DA.
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Affective Affordances Direct Perception Meets Affectivity
In this paper, I explore and examine different ways in which affectivity is related toperception within ecological psychology. I assess whether some of those wayscompromise the realist and direct aspects of traditional ecological perception. I sus-tain that they don’t.
Eros Carvalho
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Factors associated with social alienation in cancer patients: a structural equation modeling approach. [PDF]
IntroductionSocial alienation is an important issue for patients with cancer. However, the interrelationships among factors influencing social alienation in cancer patients have not been sufficiently investigated.
Hu Y +6 more
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Nested affordance-based intuitive design tool: Affordance interaction matrix
Affordances serve as design cues, facilitating users in effortlessly identifying the intended use of objects. However, due to the phenomenological nature of the affordance concept, its application and understanding in the human-computer interaction (HCI)
Yixuan Gao +3 more
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Scientific Observation Is Socio-Materially Augmented Perception: Toward a Participatory Realism
There is an overlooked similarity between three classic accounts of the conditions of object experience from three distinct disciplines. (1) Sociology: the “inversion” that accompanies discovery in the natural sciences, as local causes of effects are ...
Tom Froese
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Being Perceived and Being “Seen”: Interpersonal Affordances, Agency, and Selfhood
Are interpersonal affordances a distinct type of affordance, and if so, what is it that differentiates them from other kinds of affordances? In this paper, I show that a hard distinction between interpersonal affordances and other affordances is ...
Nick Brancazio
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Toward an ecological aesthetics: music as emergence [PDF]
In this article we intend to suggest some ecological based principles to support the possibility of develop an ecological aesthetics. We consider that an ecological aesthetics is founded in concepts as “direct perception”, “acquisition of affordances and
Oliveira, A. L. G., Oliveira, L. F.
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Human Egalitarianism and the Patriarchal Illusion: A Phenomenological View
This is a phenomenological study about the Ontological Basis of Egalitarian Life. The foundational source of Egalitarian Life is the experience of Equality Consciousness and Equal Vision.
Rudolph Bauer
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