In respect to ecological psychology processes of attunement and calibration, this critical
review focusses on how exploratory behaviors may contribute to skilled perception and …

Both the action-specific perception account and the ecological approach to perception–
action emphasize the role of action in perception. However, the action-specific perception …

This paper briefly introduces radical embodied cognitive science (RECS) and places it in
historical perspective. Radical embodied cognitive science is an interdisciplinary approach …

This chapter outlines a theory of affordances according to which affordances are relations
between the abilities of animals and features of the environment. As relations, affordances …

A classical question in philosophy and psychology is if the sense of one's body influences
how one visually perceives the world. Several theoreticians have suggested that our own …

Recent research demonstrates neurologic and behavioral differences in people's responses
to the space that is within and beyond reach. The present studies demonstrated a perceptual …

The current study investigated the perception of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and tool-based
grasping possibilities. In Experiment 1, participants judged whether they would grasp planks …

Perception relates not only to the optical information from the environment but also to the
perceiver's performance on a given task. We present evidence that the perceived height and …

Whether an object can be used to satisfy a given tool user's intention depends on, among
other things, the object's inertial properties. Overcoming an object's rotational inertia is key in …

Locomotion using a wheelchair requires a wider space than does walking. Two experiments
were conducted to test the ability of nonhandicapped adults to estimate the spatial …