The Modern Legacy of Gibson's Affordances for the Sciences of Organisms (Resources for Ecological Psychology Series)

This edited collection provides a comprehensive and empirically informed discussion on affordances and their role in studying goal-directed behavior, covering philosophical, experimental psychological, neuroscientific, and applied perspectives. Showcasing the work of expert contributors from different backgrounds, the book inspires new directions for future research in affordances. Chapters address questions relating to the definition and perception of affordances, their advantages over stimuli, the relationship between affordances and behavior, and how systems engage with affordances in different tasks and intentions. This question-based format provides a distinctive perspective that allows for a thorough exploration of the expansive field of affordance research. This book serves as a crucial resource for seasoned scientists, researchers, and undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of ecological psychology, sensation and perception, cognition, and the philosophy of cognitive science, as well as non-academic individuals interested in mind sciences broadly construed. It provides valuable insights and knowledge in these fields, making it an essential reference for those seeking to deepen their understanding in the areas of perception and cognition. Contents List of Illustrations List of Contributors Series Editor’s Foreword: Resources for Ecological Psychology • Jeffrey B. Wagman and Julia J. C. Blau Foreword On Gibson’s Legacy • William M. Mace Preface • Madhur Mangalam, Alen Hajnal, and Damian G. Kelty-Stephen 50 Years On: What Does Affordance Afford Us? • Madhur Mangalam, Alen Hajnal, and Damian G. Kelty-Stephen Part I: Ontology and Epistemology of Affordances 1 Why It Matters That Affordances Are Relations • Taraneh Wilkinson and Anthony Chemero 2 The Sociomaterial Theory of Afordances • Julien D. Kiverstein 3 When It Comes to Afordances, What Do Animals Know and How Do They Know It? • Jefrey B. Wagman, Tyler Dufrin, and Thomas A. Stofregen 4 Mental Action and the Scope of Afordance Perception • Thomas McClelland and Max Jones 5 An Afordance-Based Approach to the Origins of Concepts • Manuel Heras-Escribano, David Travieso, and Lorena Lobo 6 Toward an Ecological Theory of Time • Brandon J. Thomas Part II: The Role of Exploratory Activity and Scale in Perception of Afordances 7 The Dynamics of Afordance Emergenceand Perception • Matheus M. Pacheco and Ricardo Drews 8 Description of the World That Agential Systems Fit Into • Tetsushi Nonaka 9 The Role of Exploratory Activity in Afordance Perception • Alen Hajnal 10 Scaling Up: Lawfulness of Afordances Requires Independence From Any Single “Scale of Behavior” • Damian G. Kelty-Stephen Part III: Afordances Through the Lens of Neuroscience 11 Afordance Switching in Self-Organizing Brain-Body-Environment Systems • Vicente Raja and Matthieu M. de Wit 12 What Is NExT for Afordances? Taking Brains Seriously in Organism-Environment Systems • Luis H. Favela 13 Afordance and Tool Use: A Neurocognitive Approach • François Osiurak and Giovanni Federico 14 From Turing to Gibson: Implications of Afordances for the Sciences of Organisms • Madhur Mangalam, Louise Barrett, and Dorothy M. Fragaszy Part IV: Applications of the Ecological Theory of Afordances 15 Understanding Skilled Adaptive Behavior: The Role of Action, Perception, and Cognition in an Ecological Dynamics Perspective • Ludovic Seifert, Duarte Araújo, and Keith Davids 16 Disability Through the Lens of Afordances: A Promising Pathway for Transforming Physical Therapy Practice • Paula L. Silva and Sarah M. Schwab 17 “I Got All I Need to Know About Afordances From Norman”: What Engineers, Designers, and Architects Need to Know About Afordances • Balagopal Raveendranath, Elenah Rosopa, and Christopher C. Pagano 18 Perception of Afordances in Interaction With Autonomous Systems • Tri Nguyen, Corey Magaldino, Jayci Landfair, Matt Langley, and Polemnia G. Amazeen 19 On Afordances and Their Entailment for Autonomous Robotic Systems • Mihai Andries, Lorenzo Jamone, Justus H. Piater, and Erol Sahin Index This edited collection provides a comprehensive and empirically informed discussion on affordances and their role in studying goal-directed behavior, covering philosophical, experimental psychological, neuroscientific, and applied perspectives.Showcasing the work of expert contributors from different backgrounds, the book inspires new directions for future research in affordances. Chapters address questions relating to the definition and perception of affordances, their advantages over stimuli, the relationship between affordances and behavior, and how systems engage with affordances in different tasks and intentions. This question-based format provides a distinctive perspective that allows for a thorough exploration of the expansive field of affordance research.This book serves as a crucial resource for seasoned scientists, researchers, and undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of ecological psychology, sensation and perception, cognition, and the philosophy of cognitive science, as well as non-academic individuals interested in mind sciences broadly construed. It provides valuable insights and knowledge in these fields, making it an essential reference for those seeking to deepen their understanding in the areas of perception and cognition.Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license