Andrew D Wilson

LATEST ARTICLES ( 200 )

• An Ecological Approach to Language

  Language is often held up as an example against the possibility of the radical (non-representational) psychology we advocate for. Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Shared Neural Resources for Throwing and Language: a Whacky Idea for an...

  

  For some time now, there has been an hypothesis floating around in evolutionary biology that the human capacity for language emerged, in part, from the... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Patient DF Uses Haptics, Not Intact Visual Perception-for-action to Reach for...

  

  Before functional neuroimaging techniques like PET and fMRI became common, what we knew about which parts of the brain did what came from neuropsychology. Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Did Language Emerge from the Neural Systems Supporting Aimed Throwing?

  

  Aimed throwing is surprisingly uncommon in the animal kingdom. Humans do it par excellence, and otherwise it only shows up occasionally, even in our closest... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Field Spotter's Guide to Embodied Cognition

  

  I've spent quite a bit of time lately on the blog and Twitter talking about what embodied cognition is not. For example, it's not about moving through time... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Are Babies Super? Performance, Competence and Infant Habituation

  

  Are babies really more competent than we give them credit? (No.)Developmental psychology is filled with studies that claim to show the hidden abilities of... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Review: Louise Barrett's "Beyond the Brain"

  

  There are a lot of books about embodied cognition. Like psychology itself, the idea that cognition might not all be in the head has fractured off into about 5... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Newton International Fellowships

  If you are looking for a post-doc opportunity in the UK, and are trained in perception, action or embodied cognition type research, then this is an excellent... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Introducing Elliott Thomas

  

  Sabrina and I are proud to announce our most recent joint production: Elliott Thomas Wilson Golonka, born at 16:05 GMT on the 21st of December, 2011, at St... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Leaning to the Left Makes You Believe Odd Things About Embodied Cognition

  

  Embodied cognition is not what you think it is. But I do understand why people think differently; it's because of the depressingly endless stream of papers... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2011 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Some Ground Rules for a Theory of Psychology

  

  Add psychology to the listA fairly common response to our theory post was 'here's my theory, which is designed to replace and fix all the others'. Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2011 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• This is Not the Paternity Leave Policy You Were Looking for

  

  So, this is a bit off the scientific/psychological beaten path, but since we get a good amount of traffic from people in the UK it seemed worth mentioning... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2011 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Universal Is The Mind?

  If someone asked you to describe the psychological aspects of personhood, what would you say? Chances are, you'd describe things like thought, memory,... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2011 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Theory, and Why It's Time Psychology Got One

  

  Psychology has a problem. We have no core theory to guide our research; no analog to the theories of evolution or relativity. When particle physicists recently... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2011 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Embodied Cognition is Not What You Think It is

  The most exciting thing in cognitive science right now is the theory that cognition is embodied. It is, in fact one of the things interested lay people know... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2011 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Robots, Representation, & Dynamical Systems

  

  When cognitive science tries to explain a given behaviour, it typically looks in one of two places for it's explanation. Some people go looking in the brain... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2011 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Affordances of Everyday Things

  

  I ramble on about affordances quite a bit; a big chunk of those posts was dedicated to figuring out whether they are relations or dispositions (answer: they're... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2011 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Prospective Control I: The Outfielder Problem

  

  A couple of posts ago I raised the distinction between prediction and prospective control. I was trying to make the point that, if you are coupled to the right... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2011 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Introduce Yourselves, Dear Readers

  

  Dear readers:We keep finding out that all kinds of people are reading our blog, when you email us, or when we say 'hey, you should totally read our blog' and yo... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2011 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Embodied Solutions to Neural Delays: Information and Network Motifs

  

  One of the bugbears of direct perception is the fact of neural delays. The transmission of signals through the nervous system takes time, and this means that... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2011 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE