Andrew D Wilson

LATEST ARTICLES ( 199 )

• Do Affordances Select Or Control Actions?

  I've been working for a while to connect the perception of affordances to motor abundance methods such as the uncontrolled manifold. Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2023 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Effectivities for Reach-to-Grasp Actions

  I just reviewed the affordance properties that produce the spatial structure in reach-to-grasp actions, and there's an unquestioned assumption lurking in that... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2023 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Affordances for the Spatial Structure of Reach-To-Grasp (Mon-Williams &...

  

  I have reviewed the spatial and temporal structure of reach-to-grasp movements, and the task dynamical analysis that has connected affordance properties and... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2023 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Task Dynamics of Reaching-to-Grasp

  

  In the last post, I reviewed the basic form of the reach-to-grasp task and the basic spatial and temporal structure of the resulting reach-to-grasp action. Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2023 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Spatial and Temporal Structure of Reach-to-Grasp Movements

  

  This post is part of my current series where I am developing a research programme to formally connect affordances and motor abundance analyses (see the intro... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2023 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Motor Abundance & the Affordances for Reaching-to-Grasp

  Movements are never the same twice, even when you are trying to do that same thing over and over. Variability is an inescapable fact of trying to organise and... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2023 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• What Science Has to Offer the World of Coaching

  It started, as these things always do, on Twitter. Someone posted a training drill they were excited about (kids kicking a ball against a wall) and I made a... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2023 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 9: The Space Enigmas II: Kant, the Nature of Geometry, and the Geometry...

  The first space enigma was the fact that vision lives in the two dimensions of Flatland, but produces an experience of three dimensional Spaceland. Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2023 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Trip Report from the Uncontrolled Manifold

  I've spent the past few months getting a new paper to the 'complete first draft' stage (you can find a copy here in the meantime; it's still got some work to... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2022 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Are Illusions Even a Thing?

  Traditional vision science is very excited about illusions. These are cases when perception seems to break down; there is a mismatch between what is out there... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2022 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lecture 8: The Space Enigmas I: Berkeley (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on Perception)

  One of the big problems that emerges from all the proceeding discussions of perception is how we are able to perceive space. Space has been considered as a... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2022 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Medium for Direct Perception (Notes on Van Dijk & Kiverstein, 2020)

  The ecological approach has hit a point in its history where it has become interested in expanding its scope, to go beyond the real time coordination and contro... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2021 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Is Indirect Perception Plausible?

  There are two basic ways perception might work to let us experience the world in behaviourally relevant ways. Direct perception is the idea that perception... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2021 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Is Direct Perception Plausible? Ecological Information

  We're in the home stretch of working through how direct perception is, at least, an option, and how the ecological approach in particular attempts to make it... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2021 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Is Direct Perception Plausible? The Case for Affordances-as-Dispositions

  The first post in this series laid out the rules for what makes a theory of perception direct or indirect. In order to avoid having to require organisms to... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2021 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Are Affordances Plausible? Updating Some Intuitions

  In the previous post, I laid out the basic distinction between direct and indirect theories of perception. The basic issue is how to get to behaviourally... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2021 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• What Does It Mean for Perception to Be 'Direct' Vs 'Indirect'?

  The ecological approach is a theory of direct perception. Put simply, direct perception proposes that our perceptual experience of the world is not mediated by... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2021 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Introducing...The Southampton Project

  

  I am embarking on a very exciting and potentially game-changingly huge collaboration this year, with Southampton Football Club and a bunch of ecologically minde... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2021 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Structured Flow on Neural Manifolds (Jirsa Et Al, 2019)

  As I try to develop a vocabulary for an ecological neuroscience, I am looking for two things. First, I'm looking for help from existing methods to help... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2021 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Do Markov Blankets Give Us Real Neural Parts?

  In my last post, I laid out what I think the rules are for developing a mechanistic model of the neural scale contribution to behaviour. I ended there with a... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2021 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE