Environment Cognition And Action

Author : Tommy Garling,Gary W. Evans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780195362824

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Environment, Cognition, and Action by Tommy Garling,Gary W. Evans Pdf

How do human beings comprehend, evaluate, and utilize the physical environments they inhabit? In this edited volume, a distinguished group of international contributors examines in detail the interconnections between what we know about, feel, and hope to accomplish in real world environments. Psychologists, planners, architects, and geographers discuss the state of knowledge in environmental cognition, building and landscape assessment, aesthetics, and decision-making. Gaps in our thinking about environmental issues are also discussed. The authors present an analysis of how our knowledge can be utilized in the design and planning of settings better suited to human needs. Of interest to psychologists, geographers, and environmental designers, Environment, Cognition, and Action examines the dynamic interplay of assessment, knowledge, and action of people in all settings relevant to daily life -- home, school, office and industry.

Author : Tommy Garling,Gary William Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1601297572

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Environment, Cognition, and Action by Tommy Garling,Gary William Evans Pdf

How do human beings comprehend, evaluate and utilize the physical environments they inhabit? In this volume, psychologists, planners and architects discuss the present state of knowledge in environmental cognition, building and landscape assessment, aesthetics and decision-making.

Author : Stephen Kaplan,Rachel Kaplan
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Cognition
ISBN : IND:30000041718945

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Cognition and Environment by Stephen Kaplan,Rachel Kaplan Pdf

Author : Pentti Määttänen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3319369601

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Mind in Action by Pentti Määttänen Pdf

The book questions two key dichotomies: that of the apparent and real, and that of the internal and external. This leads to revised notions of the structure of experience and the object of knowledge. Our world is experienced as possibilities of action, and to know is to know what to do. A further consequence is that the mind is best considered as a property of organisms’ interactions with their environment. The unit of analysis is the loop of action and perception, and the central concept is the notion of habit of action, which provides the embodied basis of cognition as the anticipation of action. This holds for non-linguistic tacit meanings as well as for linguistic meanings. Habit of action is a teleological notion and thus opens a possibility for defining intentionality and normativity in terms of the soft naturalism adopted in the book. The mind is embodied, and this embodiment determines our physical perspective on the world. Our sensory organs and other instruments give us instrumental access to the world, and this access is epistemic in character. The distinction between the physical and conceptual viewpoint allows us to define truth as the correspondence with operational fit. This embodied epistemic truth is however not a sign of antirealism, as the instrumentally accessed theoretical objects are precisely those objects that experimental science deals with.

Author : Snehlata Jaswal
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9782889199792

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Perception, Action, and Cognition by Snehlata Jaswal Pdf

Even as simple a task as quenching thirst with a glass of water involves a sequence of perceptions and actions woven together by expectations and experience. What are the myriad links between perception and action, and what does cognition have to do with them? Intuitively we think that perception precedes action, but we also know that action moulds perception. The reciprocal links between perception and action are now accepted almost universally. The discovery of mirror neurons that encode observed actions has further emphasized the coupling of perception and action. The real aim of this research topic is to go beyond identifying the evidence for perception-action coupling, and study the cognitive entities and processes that influence the perception-action link. For example, the internal representations of perceived and produced events are created and modified through experience. Yet the perception action link is considered relatively automatic. To what extent is the perception-action link affected by representations and their manipulations by cognitive processes? Does selective attention modify the perception action coupling? How, and to what extent, does the context provide sources of cognitive control? The developmental trajectory of the perception-action link and the influence of cognition at various stages of development could be another line of important evidence. The responses to these and other such questions contribute to our understanding of this research area with significant implications for perception-action coupling.

Author : Robert Gifford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781118795385

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Research Methods for Environmental Psychology by Robert Gifford Pdf

Covering the full spectrum of methodology, the timely and indispensible Research Methods for Environmental surveys the research and application methods for studying, changing, and improving human attitudes, behaviour and well-being in relation to the physical environment. The first new book covering research methods in environmental psychology in over 25 years. Brings the subject completely up-to-date with coverage of the latest methodology in the field The level of public concern over the impact of the environment on humans is high, making this book timely and of real interest to a fast growing discipline Comprehensively surveys the research and application methods for studying, changing, and improving human attitudes, behavior, and well-being in relation to the physical environment Robert Gifford is internationally recognised as one of the leading individuals in this field, and the contributors include many of the major leaders in the discipline

Author : Zheng Jin,Maurizio Tirassa,Anna M. Borghi
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889458158

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Beyond Embodied Cognition: Intentionality, Affordance, and Environmental Adaptation by Zheng Jin,Maurizio Tirassa,Anna M. Borghi Pdf

Author : Miguel A. Sepúlveda-Pedro
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031202827

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Enactive Cognition in Place by Miguel A. Sepúlveda-Pedro Pdf

This book aims to enrich our understanding of the role the environment plays in processes of life and cognition, from the perspective of enactive cognitive science. Miguel A. Sepúlveda-Pedro offers an unprecedented interpretation of the central claims of the enactive approach to cognition, supported by contemporary works of ecological psychology and phenomenology. The enactive approach conceives cognition as sense-making, a phenomenon emerging from the organizational nature of the living body that evolves in human beings through sensorimotor, intercorporeal, and linguistic interactions with the environment. From this standpoint, Sepúlveda-Pedro suggests incorporating three new theses into the theoretical body of the enactive approach: sense-making and cognition fundamentally consist of processes of norm development; the environment, cognitive agents actually interact with, is an active ecological field enacted in their historical past; and sense-making occurs in a domain consisting of multiple normative dimensions that the author names enactive place.

Author : Nigel Foreman,Raphael Gillett
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Cognition
ISBN : 9780863777998

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Handbook of Spatial Research Paradigms and Methodologies: Spatial cognition in the child and adult by Nigel Foreman,Raphael Gillett Pdf

Part of a two-volume handbook reviewing the major paradigms used in each of the contributors' research areas of spatial cognition.

Author : Claes Von Hofsten,Kerstin Rosander
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780080553436

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From Action to Cognition by Claes Von Hofsten,Kerstin Rosander Pdf

Extensive neurophysiological and neuropsychological evidence show that perception, action, and cognition are closely related in the brain and develop in parallel to one another. Thus, perception, cognition, and social functioning are all anchored in the actions of the child. Actions reflect the motives, the problems to be solved, and the constraints and possibilities of the child’s body and sensory-motor system. The developing brain accumulates experiences, which it translates into knowledge used in planning future actions. Such knowledge is available because events are governed by rules and regulations. The present volume discusses all these aspects of how action and cognition are related in development.

Author : Dermot Lynott,Judith Holler,Louise Connell
Publisher : Frontiers E-books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9782889192625

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The role of body and environment in cognition by Dermot Lynott,Judith Holler,Louise Connell Pdf

Recent evidence has shown many ways in which our bodies and the environment influence cognition. In this Research Topic we aim to develop our understanding of cognition by considering the diverse and dynamic relationship between the language we use, our bodily perceptions, and our actions and interactions in the broader environment. There are already many empirical effects illustrating the continuity of mind- body-environment: manipulating body posture influences diverse areas such as mood, hormonal responses, and perception of risk; directing attention to a particular sensory modality can affect language processing, signal detection, and memory performance; placing implicit cues in the environment can impact upon social behaviours, moral judgements, and economic decision making. This Research Topic includes papers that explore the question of how our bodies and the environment influence cognition, such as how we mentally represent the world around us, understand language, reason about abstract concepts, make judgements and decisions, and interact with objects and other people. Contributions focus on empirical, theoretical, methodological or modelling issues as well as opinion pieces or contrasting perspectives. Topic areas include, perception and action, social cognition, emotion, language processing, modality-specific representations, spatial representations, gesture, atypical embodiment, perceptual simulation, cognitive modelling and perspectives on the future of embodiment.

Author : Patrik Sörqvist,John E. Marsh
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889630134

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The Cognitive Psychology of Climate Change by Patrik Sörqvist,John E. Marsh Pdf

Climate change is one of society’s great challenges. The scientific community agrees that human activity is to a large degree responsible for these changes and efforts to promote more sustainable behaviors and lifestyles often backfire. People travel for longer distances when driving a vehicle that uses a ‘sustainable’ energy source; they purchase ‘organic’ food as a means to be environmentally friendly without necessarily reducing other means of consumption; and those who deliberately change their behavior to be more environmentally friendly in one area often start behaving environmentally irresponsibly in another. Environmentally harmful behavior and decision making often have their roots in cognitive biases and cognitive inabilities to properly understand climate change issues, to understand the effects of one's own behavior on the environment, and other means by which thinking and reasoning about climate change issues are biased.

Author : C. Freksa,Markus Knauff,Bernd Krieg-Brückner,Thomas Barkowsky,Bernhard Nebel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540250487

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Spatial Cognition IV, Reasoning, Action, Interaction by C. Freksa,Markus Knauff,Bernd Krieg-Brückner,Thomas Barkowsky,Bernhard Nebel Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Cognition 2004 held in Fauenchiemsee, Germany in October 2004. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on route directions, wayfinding, and spatial behaviour; description of space, prepositions and reference; meta-models, diagrams, and maps; spatial-temporal representation and reasoning; and robot mapping and piloting.

Author : Bradley Franks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781350312180

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Culture and Cognition by Bradley Franks Pdf

Human culture depends on human minds for its creation, meaning and exchange. But minds also depend on culture for their contents and processes. Past resolutions to this circularity problem have tended to give too much weight to one side and too little weight to the other. In this groundbreaking and timely work, Bradley Franks demonstrates how a more plausible resolution to the circularity problem emerges from reframing mind and culture and their relations in evolutionary terms. He proposes an alternative evolutionary approach that draws on views of mind as embodied and situated. By grounding social construction in evolution, evolution of mind is intrinsically connected to culture – resolving the circularity problem. In developing his theory, Franks provides a balanced critical assessment of modularity-based and social constructionist approaches to understanding mind and culture.

Author : Timothy L. Hubbard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781107154988

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Spatial Biases in Perception and Cognition by Timothy L. Hubbard Pdf

Numerous spatial biases influence navigation, interactions, and preferences in our environment. This volume considers their influences on perception and memory.