The selection of goal-directed actions is based on a prospective consideration of possible
action outcomes. Traditional accounts of this process have routinely postulated the …

Studies have shown information specifying some affordances may be faster or easier to
perceive than others. This article investigates the effect of affordance perception on the time …

Introduced in his contribution to the framework of ecological psychology, Gibson (1979)
suggested that action is guided by the perception of affordances, in the sense that …

One of the fundamental hallmarks of agency is flexibility—the interchangeability of means to
achieve a given end. This hallmark is clearly manifest in the performance of goal-directed …

Decision-making processes behind instrumental actions can be divided into two categories:
goal-directed processes, and automatic (or habitual) processes. Goal-directed processes …

Recent empirical findings from social psychology, ecological psychology, and embodied
cognitive science indicate that situational factors crucially shape the course of human …

We give a historical overview of the development of almost 50 years of empirical research
on the affordances in the past and in the present. Defined by James Jerome Gibson in the …

Properties or features of the environment offer information directly, prompting for certain
actions (Gibson, 1986). For instance, an object can be reachable, doorways are crossable, a …

We give a historical overview of the development of almost 50 years of empirical research
on the affordances in the past and in the present. Defined by James Jerome Gibson in the …

Abstract address the links between environmental events and the actional responses to
them/focus on the issue of whether there is direct environmental control over behavior, in the …