Ecological psychology is built on a perception-oriented ontology. The primary focus has been explaining the perception and action behavior of individual animals. To accommodate social phenomena within ecological approach, it necessary to expand ontology, however theorists have unclear about how do this. paper presents negative argument positive programmatic outline. against use term ‘social aff...

Judgments of affordances, the potential actions that an observer can carry out within an environment, require observers to relate information about their body to information in the environment. Although humans can accurately judge affordances for others, it is unknown whether other people's capability to act influences one's own affordance judgments. Based on theoretical accounts and recent emp...

Behavioral and neuroscience studies have shown that objects observation evokes specific affordances (i.e., action possibilities) and motor responses. Recent findings provide evidence that even dangerous objects can modulate the motor system evoking aversive affordances. This sounds intriguing since so far the majority of behavioral, brain imaging, and transcranial magnetic stimulation studies w...

While it is generally accepted that patient centred care should be the guiding principle for the delivery of health services, it is not yet clear how this should be digitalised. What is clear, however, is that the current IT solutions are not satisfactory. In this research, we suggest the affordance construct as an analytical lens to understand how technological artefacts and human agency can g...

The computational model presented here, Grasping Affordances (GA) model, provides a precise explication of the notion of affordance in the context of grasping actions carried out by monkeys. This explication is consistent with both direct perception theories and neuroscientific models of monkey brains, insofar as the identification of grasping affordances requires, according to this model, neit...

In psychological theory, affordances provide a way to describe an environment in terms of the opportunities it provides an organism to act. Affordance-based models have been applied to robotics in areas such as tool-use, interaction and vision, as an alternative to hybrid control architectures. This paper introduces a model of affordances for controlling and evaluating intrinsically motivated r...

Affordances are meaningful relations between the features of observed objects and the observer’s action systems with its proper abilities. The notion of affordance integrates perceptual, cognitive and motor functions, so that perceiving an object, conducting cognitive operations on it, and executing motor actions with it cannot be considered as independent functions. Limb apraxia is a higher-or...

Phenomenological psychopathologists conceptualize schizophrenia as a self-disorder involving profound distortions of selfhood. For James Gibson, "to perceive the world is to coperceive oneself." If the sense of self is disturbed in individuals with schizophrenia, this could also lead to disturbances in these individuals' ability to perceive affordances, environmental properties taken with refer...

This paper seeks to explore the key affordances influencing patients’ engagement with online communities on Twitter. Drawing on a socio-technical perspective of affordances, the paper presents the qualitative analysis of a sample of tweets from a patients’ community chat on Twitter. The paper makes the following contributions. First, it draws on the concept of composite affordances to show the ...

In this paper, we set out to develop a theoretical and conceptual framework for the new field of Radical Embodied Cognitive Neuroscience. This framework should be able to integrate insights from several relevant disciplines: theory on embodied cognition, ecological psychology, phenomenology, dynamical systems theory, and neurodynamics. We suggest that the main task of Radical Embodied Cognitive...