Andrew D Wilson

LATEST ARTICLES ( 206 )

• How Information Gets Its Meaning (Specification II)

  

  Gibson proposed that specification was required in order for perceptual information to have meaning that was tied to the world in a manner an organism could use. Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2012 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Specification: What It Is, and Why We Need It (Specification I)

  The first thing I need to do in a discussion of specification is explain what it is and why it's important to ecological psychology. Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Specification & Its Discontents

  A topic that has been flying under the radar a little in Sabrina's language posts is the issue of specification. Sabrina's ecological analysis of language... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Inaugural 'Name Our New Blog' Competition

  

  We have recently accepted an offer to blog on Psychology Today, where we will have an opportunity to talk to a wider popular science audience about the various... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Language: A Task Analysis (kind Of)

  In the last post, I discussed the similarities and differences between language and other types of information. From the first person perspective, spoken... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Language Isn't Magical (but It is Special)

  One of the most common comments about ecological psychology is that it's hard to imagine how it could apply to things like language. Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• 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