According to the action-specific perception account, people perceive the environment in
terms of their ability to act in it. For example, softball players who are hitting better see the …

Over the last decades, scientists have questioned the origin of the exquisite human mastery
of tools. Seminal studies in monkeys, healthy participants and brain-damaged patients have …

In 1988, the cognitive revolution had become institutionalized: Cognition was the
manipulation of abstract symbols by rules. But, much like institutionalized political parties …

Tool use is a defining feature of human species. Therefore, a fundamental issue is to
understand the cognitive bases of human tool use. Given that people cannot use tools …

A tidal wave of recent research purports to have discovered that higher-level states such as
moods, action capabilities, and categorical knowledge can literally and directly affect how …

One of the most remarkable capacities of the mind is its ability to simulate sensations,
actions, and other types of experience. A mental simulation process that has attracted recent …

A series of experiments provide evidence that affordances rely not only on the mutual
appropriateness of the features of an object and the abilities of an individual, but also on the …

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 …

When people are engaged in a skilled behavior, such as occurs in sports, their perceptions
relate optical information to their performance. In the present research, we demonstrate the …

Many current programs for cognitive science sail under the banner of “embodied cognition.”
These programs typically seek to distance themselves from standard cognitive science. The …