Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-42gr6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-19T22:19:20.726Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Explanatory burdens and natural law: Invoking a field description of perception-action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2002

Robert E. Shaw  and
Jeffrey B. Wagman
Robert E. Shaw
Affiliation:
Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269 Robert.E.Shaw@uconn.eduJeffrey.B.Wagman@uconn.edu http://ione.psy.uconn.edu/~cespaweb/people/wagman.html
Jeffrey B. Wagman
Affiliation:
Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269 Robert.E.Shaw@uconn.eduJeffrey.B.Wagman@uconn.edu http://ione.psy.uconn.edu/~cespaweb/people/wagman.html
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Although we agree with Hommel et al. that perception and action refer to one another, we disagree that they do so via a code. Gibson (1966; 1979) attempted to frame perception-action as a field phenomenon rather than as a particle phenomenon. From such a perspective, perception and action are adjoint, mutually interacting through an information field, and codes are unnecessary.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 5 , October 2001 , pp. 905 - 906
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)