What is dexterity and how does it differ from coordination? In this blog, I analyse Bernstein’s treatment of the two terms and argue that they are actually more similar than he makes them out to be! Plus, are dancing robots coordinated or dexterous?? exploringecopsych.blogspot.com/2026/06/on-d...

What makes movement so difficult? And how does our evolutionary history account for this? In this blog, I draw explicit links between problems of coordination and specific evolutionary events as outlined in Bernstein’s On Dexterity and its Development. exploringecopsych.blogspot.com/2026/06/prob...

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: exploringecopsych.blogspot.com/2026/02/paid...

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 :) exploringecopsych.blogspot.com/2026/02/fran...

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...

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#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #placebo Thinking about how your participants experience your experiment is a good thing.

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....

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...

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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.*>

Annika Külpmann@anniria.bsky.social · 6mo ago

How many versions of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) exist? And how much does this affect research using the IGT? More than you might think. 🧵

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.

Part 1: How do LLMs work?

YouTube video by Andrew Perfors

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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. Links below. cc @clscohorts.bsky.social @pwgtennant.bsky.social

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!

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆? 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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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"Ecological psychology and the mirror of nature" is now open access. (by @tonychemero.bsky.social and yours truly) www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/read-...

Dio D. Vicen@diovicen.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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.

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! exploringecopsych.blogspot.com/2026/01/heft...

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! exploringecopsych.blogspot.com/2025/12/heft...

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. #neuroskyence https://bit.ly/4se65Kx

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.”…

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This is a really neat illusion!

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...

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...

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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 🤔

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Oh fun, I am being accused again of being a creationist 🫠 Sure …. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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! exploringecopsych.blogspot.com/2025/12/heft...

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! exploringecopsych.blogspot.com/2025/11/ecol...

Next post in my 'Building a BSc Thesis' series: On representative learning designs exploringecopsych.blogspot.com/2025/09/buil...

First of a series of posts outlining the studies that inspired my BSc thesis investigating eye-tracking behaviour in volleyball players! First up, on representative experimental designs: exploringecopsych.blogspot.com/2025/08/buil...

Building a BSc thesis 1: Representative experimental designs

I'm running a student-initiated project for my undergraduate thesis next academic year, where I'm hoping to strap on some eye-tracking glass...

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An overview of some psychological properties of sound, including pitch, loudness, and timbre! exploringecopsych.blogspot.com/2025/08/psyc...

Psychology of Music (Tan et al., 2010): Chapter 3.1, Psychological Properties of Sound

Now that we've covered the physical properties of sound waves, we move on to the first part of Chapter 3, which explores the psychological p...

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A whistle-stop tour of a whistle-stop tour on neuroanatomy: exploringecopsych.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

The Entangled Brain (Pessoa, 2022): Chapter 2, Neuroanatomy

Before we go on any further in our journey to understand the brain, we must first take some time looking at the anatomy of the brain. Pessoa...

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I started a new blog called "Exploring Ecological Psychology" a month or so ago. It's going to include writing on topics like eco psych, neuroscience, philosophy and just about anything I find interesting! Feedback and discussions are always welcome! exploringecopsych.blogspot.com

For many, it's not difficult to move an empty teacup across the kitchen counter. But fill it up with coffee, and suddenly it becomes a whole different task. So, how do we perceptually control the transfer of liquid-filled containers? Read on for a study by Xu et al. (2023) exploring this question!

a young boy wearing a shirt that says marvel

ALT: a young boy wearing a shirt that says marvel

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