Andrew D Wilson

LATEST ARTICLES ( 206 )

• (Re)Introducing "The Purple Perils"

  'Note for a tentative redefinition of behaviour', 1975. James J Gibson ran an afternoon seminar for many years at Cornell. This seminar was widely attended by... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2015 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• What Kind of Thing is an Information Variable? The (Annoying) Case of Tau

  

  The central contribution of the ecological approach is the idea of ecological information. Information variables are higher order relations that remain invarian... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2015 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Are We Infomation Processers? (A Brief Note)

  

  I thought about it a lot and I kept thinking: OK, he’s right, I guess, the information is in the light, it has to be there, because where else are you going to... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2015 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• It's Time to Relabel the Brain

  

  Another day, another study finds that 'visual' cortex is activated by something other than information from the eyes:A research team from the Hebrew University... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2015 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Size-Weight Illusion Induced Through Human Echolocation

  

  Echolocation is the ability to use sound to perceive the spatial layout of your surroundings (the size and shape and distance to objects, etc). Lots of animals... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2015 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Do People Really Not Know What Running Looks Like?

  

  Faster, higher, stronger - wobbly!When we run, our arms and legs swing in an alternating rhythm. Your left arm swings back as your left leg swings forward,... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2014 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Your Hand is Not a Perceptual Ruler

  

  Visual perception has a problem; it doesn't come with a ruler. Visual information is angular, and the main consequence of this is that the apparent size of... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2014 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Limits on Action Priming by Pictures of Objects

  

  If I show you a picture of an object with a handle and ask you to make a judgment about that object (say, whether it's right side up or not) you will be faster... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2014 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Visual Illusions and Direct Perception

  

  A while back I reviewed a bunch of papers by Rob Withagen who is currently arguing that while perception is not typically based in specifying variables, it can... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2014 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Rhythmic Constraints on Stress Timing in English

  

  What kind of embodied constraints affect the production of speech? Can we say anything we like when we like, or are there constraints in play that make some... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2014 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Embodying Culture: My Ongoing Conversation with Soliman & Glenberg

  

  Would a formal reply make me this guy?I've been exchanging views with Art Glenberg and his colleagues about a paper he published recently in Frontiers. Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2014 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Gibsonian Analysis of Linguistic Information

  

  This post is based on a talk I just gave at the Finding Common Ground Conference at the University of Connecticut. Please excuse the Power Pointy nature of... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2014 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Affordances Are Not Probabilistic Functions

  

  The journal Ecological Psychology is hosting a special issue with papers from a Festschrift for Herb Pick. Karen Adolph and John Franchak have a paper that... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2014 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Psychology's Real Replication Problem: Our Methods Sections

  Replication has been a big topic in psychology recently as a) we've suddenly realised we need more of it and b) because there have recently been several high... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Connecting the Conceptual Dots in Embodied Cognition

  Around about the time we published our embodied cognition paper, we also reviewed a paper for that research topic, which happened to be an example of the... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2014 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Does Action Scaling Predict 'the Embodiment of Culture'? (No.)

  

  I recently reviewed a paper for Frontiers by Arthur Glenberg and colleagues called 'Sensory motor mechanisms unify psychology: the embodiment of culture'... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2014 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• What Miming a Steering Wheel Tells Us About What We Learn

  

  Pro-tip - keep your eyes open while doing thisOne of my favourite podcasts is '99% Invisible' by Roman Mars. It's about design, and about the consequences for... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2014 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Help with a Lay Summary of My Throwing Research

  I am applying for a research fellowship and part of the application is a 2500 character lay summary; see below. I would love all and any feedback from you... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2013 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• What Are the Units That Perception Measures the World In? Firestone Vs Proffitt

  

  Perception is an act of measurement, and, like all acts of measurement, it needs a scale in order to be useful. Think about placing something on your kitchen... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2013 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Replication Will Not Save Psychology

  

  "Replication is our only hope." "No. There is another"Psychology is big into replication these days. A lot of people think that a major problem with the field i... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2013 LANGUAGES, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE