What determines what we see? In contrast to the traditional “modular” understanding of
perception, according to which visual processing is encapsulated from higher-level …

Perceptual-motor calibration has been described as a mapping between perception and
action, which is relevant to distinguish possible from impossible opportunities for action. To …

A proposal for a fully post-phrenological neuroscience that details the evolutionary roots of
functional diversity in brain regions and networks. The computer analogy of the mind has …

Both the action-specific perception account and the ecological approach to perception–
action emphasize the role of action in perception. However, the action-specific perception …

In this chapter, we present and provide empirical support for an embodied approach to
visual perception. We propose that visual information is scaled by the perceiver's phenotype …

A hole in the ground protects some creatures but endangers others. Dry ground is passable
by creatures who walk, but fatal for a fish. These environments provide different possibilities …

A chief goal of perception is to help us navigate our environment. According to a rich and
ambitious theory of spatial perception, the visual system achieves this goal not by aiming to …

The notion of body-based scaling suggests that our body and its action capabilities are used
to scale the spatial layout of the environment. Here we present four studies supporting this …

In what follows, we have three goals. The first is to explicate pragmatism, which means
looking at it in the context of the history of philosophy, psychology, and science with the …

When Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court, his comments
that a judge should have" the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young …