The Rough Guide to the Blog


We have posted on a variety of topics at various points in time; here is a somewhat organised list of key posts, arranged (within topic) in the order you might like to read them.

Feel free to comment on anything, even old posts; we monitor the comment RSS feed and will see them. We always like interacting with our readers!

Categories:
Theory in Psychology: These posts about about developing a coherent theoretical grounding for psychological science.
Research Blogging: These posts are about identifying projects we would like to do with other scientists. If you're interested, please let us know!
Reading Groups: We have worked our way through a few books on embodied cognition and ecological psychology  and will continue to do so. 
Review of Empirical Research: We work our way through research literature as a way to think the various problems through and identify ways forward. We've covered coordinated rhythmic movement, long distance throwing and the issue of specification in perception. 


Theory in Psychology
Embodied cognition
Embodied cognition is not what you think it is 
Theory, and Why It's Time Psychology Got One
Some Ground Rules for a Theory of Psychology  
A field spotter's guide to embodied cognition 
'Embodied Cognition Is Not What You Think It Is' - the paper!
 
Embodied cognitive neuroscience 
There's More to Us Than Our Brains - So What Does The Brain Do? 
What Does The Brain Do, Pt 2: The Fast Response System
Mirror Neurons, or, What's the Matter with Neuroscience?
There's More Than One Way to Rhythmically Move a Lobster
Embodied solutions to neural delays: Information and Network Motifs
On why fMRI is bullshit, even when you're doing it right 
Radical Embodied Cognitive Neuroscience - A Frontiers Research Topic

Ecological Psychology
There is no poverty of stimulus
Poverty of stimulus and ecological laws
"Smart" perceptual mechanisms 
Runeson, the Ames Room and the Irrelevance of Equivalent Configurations 
Gibson vs Physics: Gibson Wins, at the Ecological Scale 
Task Specific Devices and the Perceptual Bottleneck
Task Dynamics And The Information They Create

Information
There's No Prospective Information About Friction, or, Why I Fell Over on the Ice
Mirrors are Literally Windows to Another World
Prospective Control I: The Outfielder Problem 
A Taxonomy of Information

Affordances 
Affordances, Part 1: Affordances are real dispositions of the environment 
Affordances, Part 2: Affordances are relations between organism and environment 
Affordances, Part 3: Dispositions or relations - which is it?
F*cking affordances - how do they work?
The Affordances of Everyday Things  
The affordances of objects and pictures of those objects
   
Language
An Ecological Approach to Language
Language isn't magical (but it is special)

Language: A task analysis (kind of) 
Why does linguistic information mean what it does? 
A Taxonomy of Information

Representations & Why We Should Abandon Them
Whose representation? 
In which I finish talking about discrete computational representations 
What else could it be? The case of the centrifugal governor
Internal representation or behavioural dynamics?
A selection of problems with representation
Life and other vague categories
What's the difference between perception and conception?
Is it time to abandon the cognitive / non-cognitive distinction? 

Dynamical Systems 
Perception, Action & Dynamical Systems 
Robots, Representation, & Dynamical Systems

Problems in Psychology  
The Small Effect Size Effect - Why Do We Put Up With Small Effects?
Psychological Science...meet me at camera 3
The affordances of objects and pictures of those objects 

Theory in General
Assume the Cow is a Sphere
Is Cognition Extended?  


Research Blogging
How Information Gets Its Meaning
Specification & Its Discontents
Specification: What It Is, and Why We Need It
How Information Gets Its Meaning
Non-Specifying Variables in the Perception of Collisions
Individual Variation in the Use of Perceptual Information
Evolution vs.Specification  
A Way Forward on Specification
  
Non-representational neuroscience
Radical Embodied Cognitive Neuroscience - A Frontiers Research Topic
 
Reading Groups 
Louise Barrett, Beyond the Brain
Review: Louise Barrett's "Beyond the Brain"


Tony Chemero, Radical Embodied Cognitive Science 
Chapter 1: Hegelian Arguments in Cognitive Science
Chapter 2: Embodied Cognition 
Chapter 3: Theories of Representation
Chapter 4: The Dynamical Stance
Chapter 5: Guides to Discovery 
Chapter 6: Information and Direct Perception
Chapter 7: Affordances, etc (Pt 1)

Chapter 7: Affordances, etc (Pt 2) 
   A Brief Pause to See Where I'm At 
Chapter 8: Neurophilosophy Meets RECS 
Chapter 9: The Metaphysics of Radical Embodiment

James J Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
Chapter 1 
Chapter 2
Chapter 3 
Chapter 4
Chapter 5

Chapter 5 Part 2
Chapter 5 Part 3 
Chapter 6 Part 1
Chapter 6 Part 2 

Harry Heft,  Ecological Psychology in Context: James Gibson, Roger Barker and the Legacy of William James's Radical Empiricism
Chapter 1: Intro + Prologue  
Chapter 2: William James and Radical Empiricism
Chapter 3: EB Holt 
  A Note on Holt on Visual Illusions
Chapter 4: Gibson
  Gibson (Pt IIa)
  The Problem of Two Minds
  The Problem of Time

Lawrence Shapiro, Embodied Cognition
Review: 'Embodied Cognition', by Lawrence Shapiro


Reviews of Empirical Research
Coordinated Rhythmic Movement/Coordination Dynamics  
What Does Coordinated Rhythmic Movement Have To Do With Anything?
Coordinated rhythmic movement. - an introduction to an experimental paradigm
How to Build a Valid Measure of Behaviour
Coordination and the Haken-Kelso-Bunz Model  
Learning a Novel Coordination - The Dynamic Pattern Hypothesis  
Rates of learning and the dynamic pattern approach
Learning a Novel Coordination; Things Get Interesting 
Visual perception of coordinated rhythmic movements 
Establishing the Role of Perception in Coordination: Proprioception and Action Measures
A Perception/Action Model of Coordination  
Perceptual Learning Stabilises Action: A Test of the Bingham Model 
Identifying the Visual Information for Relative Phase
Visual feedback for training novel coordinations 
Lissajous feedback and coordination stability
Coordination dynamics and relative speed 
Using coordination to study learning across the lifespan

Throwing for distance and accuracy  
Task Dynamics And The Information They Create
The Task Dynamics of Throwing to a Maximum Distance 

Object Perception 
Hefting for a maximum distance throw
Is hefting to perceive the affordance for throwing a smart perceptual mechanism? 
Learning the affordances for maximum distance throwing 
The Size-Weight Illusion is Functional, and It's About Throwing
How do we perceive which objects afford throwing the farthest?

Space Perception
Perceiving long distances in action scaled units 

Throwing & Language
Did language emerge from the neural systems supporting aimed throwing? 
Shared neural resources for throwing and language: a whacky idea for an experiment

'Embodied' cognition
"Moving Through Time" and embodied cognition 
Leaning to the left makes you believe odd things about embodied cognition

Various bits and pieces
Are babies super? Performance, competence and infant habituation 
Patient DF uses haptics, not intact visual perception-for-action to reach for objects
Cracking the Tough Nut of Chimp Tool Use 
Breaking the (ecological) law: why illusory sounds don't make for safer cars 
Giving children with movement problems a leg up with robots
Do our fingers wrinkle in the wet to improve our grip?

Can’t form a mental image? No big deal
A brief rant about waist-to-hip ratio
How Universal Is The Mind? 

Daryl Bem and Precognition 
Failing to Replicate Bem's Ability to Get Published

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