Andrew D Wilson

LATEST ARTICLES ( 206 )

• 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