Learning to perceive is faced with a classical paradox: if understanding is required for
perception, how can we learn to perceive something new, something we do not yet …

I discuss some central ideas of the enactive approach in cognitive science, including the
concepts of autonomy, sense-making, and agency, and show the way they are grounded in …

Sensorimotor theories understand perception to be a process of active, exploratory
engagement with the environment, mediated by the possession and exercise of a certain …

According to the sensorimotor approach, perception is a form of embodied know-how,
constituted by lawful regularities in the sensorimotor flow or in sensorimotor contingencies …

How accurate is the picture of the human mind that has emerged from studies in
neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science? Anybody with an interest in how minds …

Ecological and sensorimotor theories of perception build on the notion of action-dependent
invariants as the basic structures underlying perceptual capacities. In this paper we contrast …

Perception is interpreted as a set of capabilities that facilitate two functions necessary for
survival; learning about the environment and controlling real-time behavioral interactions …

In Mossio & Taraborelli (2008) we challenged the assumption according to which the
ecological and sensorimotor approaches are mere conceptual variations on the same …

In this paper we re-visit and elaborate-on the theoretical framework of learning as searching
within the perceptual-motor workspace for a solution to the task. The central focus is the …

The sensorimotor theory of perceptual experience claims that perception is constituted by
bodily interaction with the environment, drawing on practical knowledge of the systematic …