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New blog on the first chapter of the 2019 book 'Perception as Information Detection'! Here, I summarise the argument for the third sense of environment by @edbaggs.bsky.social and @tonychemero.bsky.social:

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Frank (2019): Chapter 1, Introduction This is the first post to a new book that I'll be starting by Till Frank (2019), Determinism and Self-Organisation of Human Perception and P...

Starting a new book, Determinism and Self-organisation of Human Perception and Performance by Till Frank! Join me as I embark on a journey to shore up my understanding of synergetics in the context of human behaviour :)

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one group of people dancing in circle, another group sitting in chairs. One woman on chair says "So I'm guessing we're in the placebo group"

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #placebo

Thinking about how your participants experience your experiment is a good thing.

The Emancipation of the drone: A Dennettian thought experiment This paper presents an extended thought experiment conducted by Daniel Dennett and the author as a way of exploring how consciousness might develop without a central “Cartesian Theater.” The starti...

Just out: my account of an extended thought experiment conducted by Dan Dennett and me. Open access. The Emancipation of the drone: A Dennettian thought experiment www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Self-report scales in psychology get a lot of flak & there’s a desire for more objective, “scientific” behavioral measures. Now if you look at some of these more closely, there are hundreds of way to score them to generate some outcome variable — and many scorings are used exactly *once.*>

Part 1: How do LLMs work? YouTube video by Andrew Perfors

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊

Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

If you are interested in all things ✨causal inference✨, please join our multidisciplinary Causal Inference Interest Group (CIIG). We host monthly seminars featuring speakers with various academic backgrounds and research interests.

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Beautiful business research people: The Leibniz Information Centre for Economics has created an accessible introduction to Open Science that you can download in both English and German here: expedition-open-science.org

You can even order the German print version for free!

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Much has been written but an excellent starting point is given by Shallice and Cooper (2011).
This is not entirely exhaustive and further formalization would be beneficial to tighten the definitions.
#neuroskyence

Reading Group: Turvey (2019), Lectures on Perception Michael Turvey ran a famously intense graduate level class on perception and action at CESPA . He has recently, finally, published a ...

I have finally completed the blog posts on each Lecture on Perception, the Michael Turvey book based on his UConn graduate seminar. All posts linked here, as well as links to the journal club discussions with Rob Gray and Marianne Davis that enabled me to actually finish this project

ICPA - ICPA 2026 Welcome to the 2026 International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA). This year, we meet in Omaha, Nebraska, bringing the international ecological psychology community together in a setting th...

Call for papers: 2026 International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA) in Omaha, NE, June 23–26, 2026 icpa2026omaha.com (please RT!)

Interesting, was not aware of that first point. I’ll have to reread that literature soon :)

First thoughts: the relations in question are different. Turvey rejects affordances as relations between organism & environment. James seems to be talking about relations between environmental elements, which can be considered environmental properties. So Turvey’s formulation still agrees with James

Later on, Heft draws links between James’s percepts/concepts and Gibson’s affordances/information, respectively.

Accordingly, directly experienced relations, or percepts, are affordances.

Does this bear any impact on the affordance debate?

I’ve been engaging with James’s radical empiricism through Heft, who points out the ‘radical’ bit of radical empiricism being that relations, and not individual elements, are directly perceived.

"Ecological psychology and the mirror of nature" is now open access. (by @tonychemero.bsky.social and yours truly)

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Definitely agree with you, especially if representations are defined with respect to their ability to stand for/describe something! What I’m trying to get away from are computational/internal/helmholtzian representations, in favour of descriptions that are compatible with direct perception theories

We’re on to Chapter 3, where I focus on the intellectual links between James, Holt, and Gibson surrounding animal-environment mutuality and the importance of phenomological analysis!

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New blog on Chapter 2 of Heft (2001), where I focus on Edwin Holt’s ideas surrounding molar behaviourism and the recession of the stimulus!

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Talking shop: The Transmitter’s top quotes of 2025 Find out what “may be one of the brain’s most underappreciated superpowers” and why it’s so crucial to “talk about our research in our everyday lives.”…

Find out what “may be one of the brain’s most underappreciated superpowers” and why it’s so crucial to “talk about our research in our everyday lives,” in our favorite quotes from the past year.

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This is a really neat illusion!

Also, I recently read Holt’s interesting view of remembering as a relation between current experience and direct awareness of the temporal order of events.

I’ll have to think more about it, but this feels similar to the brain-body-environment relation idea advocated here.

Radical Embodied Memory (Wilford & Anderson, 2025) Of all the representation-hungry problems out there, memory seems to be the hungriest. It is clearly a fact that we can organise our present...

My Christmas miracle is that I *think* I’m starting to understand how memory might viably work without the need for encoding and retrieving representations 🙃

See comments section of @adw.bsky.social’s blog for context: psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/2025/11/radi...

Thanks for sharing!

For e.g., instead of looking at classes of representations, situations, and actions, how about just direct attunement (to ecological information) and calibration (of action to info)?

Or would there still a need to examine the tractability of the cognitive architecture?

Really cool read!

I wonder how much of the intractability challenge (at least on a cognitive level) might be solved by adopting Gibson’s ecological approach 🤔

Chapter 2 explores the work of Edwin B. Holt, the historical and intellectual link between William James's radical empiricism and James J. Gibson's ecological psychology. Plus, a pretty neat searchlight analogy of perception!

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Does this mean that controlling for the collider (in this case, I’m guessing elite adult performer status?) will never yield sound scientific conclusions? Are there questions such correlational data might still answer in a valid way?

This week, we begin with the prologue + first section of chapter 1 where Heft introduces psychology’s Cartesian roots. This will set the stage for James’s radical empiricism later on in the chapter!

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Next post in my 'Building a BSc Thesis' series: On representative learning designs

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