548 – Focus of Attention, the Structure of Variability & Placebo Effects
The Perception & Action Podcast
Release Date: 09/09/2025
566 – Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception, Chaps 5 (JC 61)
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Join Andrew, Marianne, and me as we discuss Chapter 5 from Gibson’s “1979 book”: The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. What is the ambient optic array? Links: Credits: The Flamin' Groovies – Shake\Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com
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565 – Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception, Chaps 3-4 (JC 60)
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Looking at Chapters 3 and 4 from Gibson’s “1979 book”: The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception Links: Credits: The Flamin' Groovies – Shake\Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com
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564 – Ecological Cognition IV: Decision Making
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Looking at decision-making from an ecological perspective. From a mental event that follows perception and precedes action to a phenomenon that emerges from the performer-environment interaction. Links: Credits: The Flamin' Groovies – Shake\Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com
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563 – Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (JC 59)
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Join Andrew, Marianne, and me as we start a new book. Looking at Chapters 1 and 2 from Gibson’s “1979 book”: The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception Links: Credits: The Flamin' Groovies – Shake\Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com
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562 – Ecological Cognition III: Radical Embodied Cognitive Science (part 1)
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Continuing the journey in understanding the Ecological approach to cognition by looking at Tony Chemero’s book: Radical Embodied Cognitive Science. Conceptualizing cognition in terms of agent-environment dynamics instead of computation and representation. What is RECS, and where did these ideas come from? Links: Credits: The Flamin' Groovies – Shake\Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com
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561 – An Ecological Dynamics Account of Flow in Sport
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Looking at an ecological dynamics account of the experience of flow as a way to illustrate some of the key concepts in understanding the ecological view of cognition. Links: Credits: The Flamin' Groovies – Shake\Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com
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560 – Ecological Cognition II: Resonance
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What the heck does the brain do in Ecological Dynamics, if it isn’t computing, processing, or representing? An introduction to the concept of Resonance. Articles: Credits: The Flamin' Groovies – Shake\Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com
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559 – Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, Chapter 26 (JC58)
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On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson and Marianne Davies to discuss chapter 26 from Michael Turvey’s book “Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective” Links: Credits: The Flamin' Groovies – Shake\Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com
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558 – The Ecological Approach to Cognition: An Introduction
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Is it true that there is no cognition in the ecological approach to skill? No, of course not. In this episode, I want to start a series of episodes to explain how we can understand cognition (e.g., problem solving, memory, intention, agency, anticipation, decision making, etc) from an ecological viewpoint. Articles: Credits: The Flamin' Groovies – Shake\Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com
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557 – Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, Chapters 24-25 (JC57)
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On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson and Marianne Davies to discuss chapters 24 and 25 from Michael Turvey’s book “Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective” Links: Credits: The Flamin' Groovies – Shake\Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com
info_outlineA look at a couple studies examining the effect of focus of attention on performance. How does focus of attention affect good and bad movement variability? Does it alter placebo effects?
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Changing one’s focus of attention alters the structure of movement variability
The placebo effect in the motor domain is differently modulated by the external and internal focus of attention
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