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Synergy Makes Direct Perception Inefficient [PDF]
EntropyA 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
Miguel de Llanza Varona +1 more
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Direct perception in the intersubjective context
Consciousness and Cognition, 2008 This paper, in opposition to the standard theories of social cognition found in psychology and cognitive science, defends the idea that direct perception plays an important role in social cognition. The two dominant theories, theory theory (TT) and simulation theory (ST), both posit something more than a perceptual element as necessary for our ability ...
Shaun Gallagher
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Consciousness and Cognition, 2015 Direct Social Perception (DSP) is the idea that we can non-inferentially perceive others' mental states. In this paper, I argue that the standard way of framing DSP leaves the debate at an impasse. I suggest two alternative interpretations of the idea that we see others' mental states: others' mental states are represented in the content of our ...
Shannon Spaulding
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Affective affordances direct perception meets affectivity [PDF]
Perspectiva Filosófica, 2022 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.
Eros Carvalho
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Direct perception of affective valence from vision [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsSubjective feelings are thought to arise from conceptual and bodily states. We examine whether the valence of feelings may also be decoded directly from objective ecological statistics of the visual environment.
Saeedeh Sadeghi +4 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015 In this paper we suggest that differing approaches to the science of social cognition mirror the arguments between radical embodied and traditional approaches to cognition.
Travis J. Wiltshire +3 more
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Direct and indirect perception of size [PDF]
Perception & Psychophysics, 1980 Three experiments, using a reaction time paradigm, examine the direct (stimulus bound) and indirect (mediational inference) approaches to size perception. Subjects determine which of two stimuli is the larger when the two can be at different egocentric distances.
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Scientific Observation Is Socio-Materially Augmented Perception: Toward a Participatory Realism
Philosophies, 2022 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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Nested affordance-based intuitive design tool: Affordance interaction matrix
Cogent Engineering, 2023 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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Perception of Vibratory Direction on the Back [PDF]
, 2020 AbstractIn this study, we investigated the accuracy and precision by which vibrotactile directions on the back can be perceived. All direction stimuli consisted of two successive vibrations, the first one always on a centre point on the spine, the second in one of 12 directions equally distributed over a circle.
Astrid M. L. Kappers +2 more
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