Dio D. Vicen
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Vicente Raja; but I want to be Luffy. Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the University of Murcia (Spain). Associate Faculty at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy (Canada).
It is out and OPEN ACCESS: "The Senses: Perception and Experience" (Cambridge University Press, Elements: Philosophy of Mind, ed. by @keithfrankish.com) #PhilSky #booksky #HPBio #philosophy #cogsci www.cambridge.org/core/element...
The Senses
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - The Senses
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Random question again: If perceptual experience is based on the optimisation of an internal model (or controlled hallucination), why the optimisation process can't solve myopia, for e.g.? Myopia is a relatively simple optical issue that an optimised internal model (w/ priors) could solve. Why not?
Finally, our chapter (with Louise Barrett and Paco Calvo) on ecological psychology and comparative cognition is Open Access. Please, read and share :-) www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
A World of minds | 17 | Ecological psychology as a framework for compa
This chapter argues that ecological psychology offers a powerful alternative framework for comparative cognition, challenging the dominant computational and
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Why would you even both calling your approach ecological if you explicitly endorse indirect perception and representational solutions? Gibson should have trademarked the name. This is honestly getting out of hand
Simons Foundation@simonsfoundation.org · 2mo agoIn a new @cp-neuron.bsky.social article, members of the Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE) outline their plans to investigate how the brain links perception, cognition and action by encoding environmental affordances: https://bit.ly/49YfgaE
Our thematic collection on Progress in radical embodiment is now published in the May 2026 issue of Topoi Issue here link.springer.com/journal/1124... Our editorial introduction here doi.org/10.1007/s112... @segundo-ortin.bsky.social @guicogsci.bsky.social @diovicen.bsky.social
Ed Baggs@edbaggs.bsky.social · last yr.Our special issue of Topoi on "Progress in radical embodiment" can be found here I'll post the articles in the thread below as they are published link.springer.com/collections/...
[CONFERENCE ALERT] May 5-7, EMBODIED COGNITION AND COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY Universidad de Murcia (Spain) Invited speakers: Louise Barrett, Lucia Jacobs, Susana Monsó, Paco Calvo, Matt Sims & Aditya Ponkshe. Check out the full program here: embodiedcomparativepsychology.square.site/program
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We (@edbaggs.bsky.social, @segundo-ortin.bsky.social, @guicogsci.bsky.social, & I) have organised the conference "Dimensions of Radical Embodiment" for the last few years [Stay tuned for the next one!]. And we just edited a special issue around it. Here's the intro: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Introduction: Progress in Radical Embodiment - Topoi
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"If we ask ourselves candidly 'what has neuroscience taught us about cognition that we did not already know from behavior?' we realize that unfortunately the answer is 'not very much.'" (Niv, 2021) I'm curious about what's the general take in the field about this claim 🤔
@tonychemero.bsky.social and I have written a short James Gibson's bio for The Palgrave Encyclopaedia for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. Check it out! ⬇️ doi.org/10.1007/978-...
James J. Gibson (1904–1979)
In this entry, we detail the academic journey of J. J. Gibson through his career as a perceptual psychologist. We make special emphasis on direct perception and the theory of affordances.
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@braininspired.bsky.social talks to @dewitmm.bsky.social, Luis Favela and @diovicen.bsky.social about the trend of neuroscientists importing concepts from ecological psychology, how an organism’s interactions with its environment explains perception and action. #neuroskyence bit.ly/3OyNEkp
Three ecological psychologists on the right and wrong ways to use the field’s principles in neuroscience
Matthieu de Wit, Luis H. Favela and Vicente Raja weigh in on the recent trend of neuroscientists importing concepts from ecological psychology, the study of how an organism’s interactions with its…
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Luis Favela, @dewitmm.bsky.social, and yours truly talked to @braininspired.bsky.social about ecological neuroscience. Among other things, we tried to comment on how to make "affordances" and "ecological information" helpful for neuroscientists. Check it out! youtu.be/p987y_v-_PE?...
BI 232 How Should Neuroscience Integrate with Ecological Psychology?
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Luis Favela and I just finished editing a special issue on dynamical cognitive science for topiCS. The great contributors of the issue talk a little bit about what happened in the last 30 years, where we are now, and where we are heading to. Here's the intro (open access): doi.org/10.1111/tops...
Dynamical Cognitive Science! Wherefore Art Thou?
How has dynamical systems theory—especially the dynamical hypothesis—influenced the cognitive sciences since the 1990s? This topic brings together informatics, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, ...
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Ah... I'm so invested in what we could call "non-standard approaches to cognition" that I often forget that out there in the real world we still lay comfortably in the arms of Immanuel Kant/René Descartes/pick-your-own-Modern-poison... www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear
The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next.
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I like the idea of the book. Indeed, ecological resonance is pretty much about it. Now, unpopular opinion: ecological psychology is not a form of anti-representationalism. I say more: representations are NOT (or, at least, should NOT be) a relevant topic within the ecological approach.
Andrew D Wilson@adw.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe call for abstracts for ICPA 2026 in Omaha is open and includes an intriguing idea for a book icpa2026omaha.com/schedule
"Ecological psychology and the mirror of nature" is now open access. (by @tonychemero.bsky.social and yours truly) www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/read-...
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Dio D. Vicen@diovicen.bsky.social · 8mo agoA little bit of spam, but this one is honestly one of my favourite papers I've participated in. I still think there's a whole dissertation to be written on this topic--ecological psychology & epistemology.
Just signed a contract for a Cambridge Elements in Ecological Neuroscience! With @diovicen.bsky.social Look for it in a year or so. www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
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As an ecological psychologist, when I read: "the PBDR approach is always grounded in the physics of light transport... [...]... because it allows the identification of perceptual invariants." It actually sounds like: "we use the optic array to find perceptual invariants." I like it!
Tom Wallis@tsawallis.bsky.social · 8mo agoLegit super excited about this work coming out. My amazing doctoral student @ben.graphics has been working on an idea to use physically based differentiable rendering (PBDR) to probe visual understanding. Here, we generate physically-grounded metamers for vision models. 1/4 arxiv.org/abs/2512.12307
A little bit of spam, but this one is honestly one of my favourite papers I've participated in. I still think there's a whole dissertation to be written on this topic--ecological psychology & epistemology.
Andrew D Wilson@adw.bsky.social · 8mo agoEcological psychology and the mirror of nature (by @diovicen.bsky.social, @tonychemero.bsky.social)
"meaningful affordances" "bio-mechanical affordances" "mental affordances" "non-representational affordances" Please stop. Stop with the adjectives. It makes no sense. Thank you.
I've been talking about ecological neuroscience and other topics with @braininspired.bsky.social on the Brain Inspired podcast. You can check it out here 👇 youtu.be/Aj3LyStBgpg
BI 223 Vicente Raja: Ecological Psychology Motifs in Neuroscience
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What is plant nutation? What is a motif in science? What lessons does ecological psychology have for neuroscience? How does Vicente @diovicen.bsky.social enjoy the band Judas Priest yet still do good philosophy and science? Here are the answers: braininspired.co/podcast/223/
Some friends and I submitted a commentary Preprint here: doi.org/10.31234/osf... @guicogsci.bsky.social @segundo-ortin.bsky.social @diovicen.bsky.social @tonychemero.bsky.social
Ed Baggs@edbaggs.bsky.social · last yr.A paper on affordances open for commentaries at BBS. Cites basically no ecological psychologists. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Is ecological neuroscience a feasible enterprise? After some theoretical work on ecological resonance, we've engaged on experimental research to test some of the hypotheses that follow from it. These are the first results of (hopefully) many more to come! It's open access 👇 doi.org/10.1111/psyp...
<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library
This study bridges brain and body through ecological psychology and neuroscience by demonstrating how ecological information—in this case, “time to contact” or tau—constrains brain activity and as mu...
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"Although neuroscience has developed powerful tools for measuring brain activity, its behavioral measures are far more primitive, as it lacks a coherent conceptual framework for analyzing and interpreting behavior." True! Happy to see this idea is growing. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Aligning brain and behavior
To understand how the brain generates behavior, both brain activity and behavior must be measured accurately. Although neuroscience has developed powe…
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It never ceases to amaze me how angry some people in mainstream cognitive science get when one talks about non-representation/non-computation while they completely refuse to at least read something about it so they can have an actual reason to be angry that is not just "hey, normal science, bro".
My impression is we’ve lost this kind of thinking in contemporary neuroscience: that we need good theories of the brain and *behavior* to explain stuff. James, Lashley, Hebb, Tolman, Skinner, Gibson… They all agreed on that.
Kevin Mitchell@wiringthebrain.bsky.social · last yr.Karl Lashley, writing in 1930, on the Basic Neural Mechanisms of Behaviour: wexler.free.fr/library/file...
David Lee just died. He formulated tau/time-to-contact, the most famous bit of ecological information. He is one of the main reasons why ecological psychology is still alive. We all are indebted to him. I met him once and ended up having dinner at his place. Very cool guy! RIP
Affordances are motifs. Representations are motifs. A sentence with both words can mean anything! 😱
Kevin Mitchell@wiringthebrain.bsky.social · last yr.This'll drive the ecological psychology / direct perception folks nuts! Yes, affordances have to be represented! 😅
