Andrew D Wilson

LATEST ARTICLES ( 57 )

• The Embodied Cognition of Tesco's Gendered Toys

  

  Tesco got in trouble on the internet last week for having toy chemistry sets labelled as being for boys, not girls in their online store. Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Information Available in Pictures

  

  I've become fascinated with the problem of pictures and how they relate to the things they are pictures of. One reason is the regular use of pictures of... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2013 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Embodied Cognition in Practice - Some Thoughts and an Open Invitation

  Since our Frontiers paper on embodied cognition came out, Sabrina and I have been giving talks and fielding questions in emails about what we're trying to... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Woman Who Sees the World Upside Down

  

  I came across an utterly fascinating case study on Twitter the other day (via Mo Costandi; see this video too): Rare brain condition leaves woman seeing world... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Taxonomy of Information

  

  Over the past several months I've been thinking about how perception falls within a hierarchy of types of information use. This was spurred by my ideas about... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2013 SCIENCE

• The Affordances of Objects and Pictures of Those Objects

  

  People interested in how perception and action affect cognition have begun talking about affordances. This should be great news; the ecological approach suggest... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2013 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• 'Embodied Cognition Is Not What You Think It Is' - the Paper!

  

  Whoops, we did it again - a paper based on the blog! This time we are in press at Frontiers in Psychology, in a Research Topic on embodied cognition, with a... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2013 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Learning the Affordances for Maximum Distance Throwing

  

  Over the last couple of posts, I have reviewed data that shows people can perceive which object they can, in fact, throw the farthest ahead of time by hefting... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2013 SCIENCE

• Newton International Fellowships 2013

  If you from anywhere other than the UK and are looking for a post-doc opportunity in the UK, and are trained in perception, action, language or embodied... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2013 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Is Hefting to Perceive the Affordance for Throwing a Smart Perceptual Mechanism?

  

  In the last post, I reviewed Geoff's first paper looking at whether people can perceive the affordance for throwing an object to a maximum distance and a first... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2013 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Hefting for a Maximum Distance Throw

  

  From the task dynamic analysis of throwing for maximum distance, we've identified the fact that for a given release angle and maximum release velocity, there... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Do Our Fingers Wrinkle in the Wet to Improve Our Grip?

  

  If you sit in the bath for more than 10 minutes or so, you'll notice that your fingers get wrinkled like a prune. People thought for a while that this was a... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Using Coordination to Study Learning Across the Lifespan

  

  What happens to our ability to learn new movement skills as we age? There is surprisingly little research on this topic; a relatively recent review... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2013 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Our First Paper Based on the Blog is out in Time for Christmas!

  

  Last year we were invited to contribute to a special issue of Avant, an interdisciplinary open access journal that publishes in English and Polish. Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2012 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Radical Embodied Cognitive Neuroscience - A Frontiers Research Topic

  A couple of years ago, Sabrina and I were chatting about the brain and running into the problem that we just don't know enough about how it works. Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Task Dynamics of Throwing to a Maximum Distance

  

  In my last post I went over the formal concept of task dynamics as a way of analysing a task to identify the affordances in that task. Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2012 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Task Dynamics And The Information They Create

  Over the next weeks I want to turn my attention to a detailed account of the process by which you go about studying affordances (formalised as task dynamics) an... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2012 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Psychological Science...meet Me at Camera 3

  Psychological Science, I think we need to talk. I was reading this farewell from your outgoing editor, and it would all be nice enough if I hadn't also just rea... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2012 LANGUAGES, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Do We Perceive Which Objects Afford Throwing the Farthest?

  

  Previous work has established that people with throwing experience can perceive the affordance of 'throwability'. If you let these people heft objects with a... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2012 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Giving Children with Movement Problems a Leg up with Robots

  

  Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is a surprisingly common problem; it's thought that 6-8% of school aged children are diagnosable. Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE