Embodying mental affordances

Bruineberg, Jelle; Herik, Jasper C. van den

doi:10.1080/0020174x.2021.1987316

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“…We outline an ecologically informed account of the performative aspect of surgery. The acquisition of surgical skills in relation to the design of learning environments is informed by Gibson's ecological account of perception (Bruineberg & van den Herik, 2021;Gibson, 1977Gibson, , 1979Shaw et al, 1982). We discuss learning in the context of acquiring procedural skills in relation to recent technological developments in surgical practice, including the increasing use of robotic surgery.…”

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Clinical Affordances: Towards an Ecological Account of Health Affordance and Design of Clinical Learning Spaces

Schweitzer,

Laakso,

Ting

et al. 2024

Australian Journal of Clinical Education

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In this article, we address the following question: how should clinical environments be designed to promote learning opportunities for clinicians? We develop an ecologically-informed account of learning opportunities informed by Gibson’s influential ecological theory of perception (Gibson, 1977, 1979). The so-called ‘push-pull’ account is proposed as a framework in which we can conceptualise how affordances are formed and actioned across different areas of clinical practice. We develop an account of health-care-related affordances that is discussed in relation to surgical training with a particular emphasis in terms of how skills are acquired in the use of robotic surgical techniques. Our primary focus is on the performative aspects of surgical performative process. We situate the current discussion in relation to a broader discussion about skills development in the context of healthcare as well as the future design of clinical spaces.

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Clinical Affordances: Towards an Ecological Account of Health Affordance and Design of Clinical Learning Spaces

Schweitzer,

Laakso,

Ting

et al. 2024

Australian Journal of Clinical Education

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Structuring embodied minds: attention and perceptual agency

Bruineberg,

Stone

2024

Philos Stud

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Perception is, at least sometimes, something we do. This paper is concerned with how to account for perceptual agency (i.e., the active aspect of perception). Eilan divides accounts of perceptual agency up into two camps: enactivist theories hold that perceptual agency is accounted for by the involvement of bodily action, while mental theories hold that perceptual agency is accounted for by the involvement of mental action in perception. In Structuring Mind (2017), Sebastian Watzl aligns his ‘activity view’ with the mental action route and develops the view that the mental activity of attending infuses perceptual experience with agency. Moreover, Watzl claims that his view can accommodate enactivist intuitions, while rejecting their claims about embodiment.In this paper, we scrutinize the relevant notion of mental action involved in the mental action route. We analyze the involvement of the body in overt acts of attention (like sniffing and smelling) and argue that a constitutively embodied account of mental action provides a better analysis of overt attention than a conjunctive account in which overt attention involves a bodily and a (separate) mental action. Furthermore, we argue that the standard cases of covert attention (such as the Posner paradigm) involve the body in multiple ways.In closing, we discuss the relevance of our analysis for the debate on perceptual agency and the embodied mind thesis. We conclude that the embodied mental action route to theorizing perceptual agency provides the best analysis of perceptual agency but comes with significant commitments about the embodiment of attention.

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Not So Blue to be Sad: Affective Affordances and Expressive Properties in Affective Regulation

Caravà,

Benenti

2024

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In our everyday interaction with the environment, we often perceive objects and spaces as opportunities to feel, maintain, enhance, and change our affective states and processes. The concept of affective affordance was coined to accommodate this aspect of ordinary perception and the many ways in which we rely on the material environment to regulate our emotions. One natural way to think of affective affordances in emotion regulation is to interpret them as tools for regulating felt affective states. We argue that this way of conceiving of affective affordances is too restrictive. By analyzing the role of expressive properties of objects and spaces in emotion regulation, we show that our environment does not need to elicit felt affective states to regulate our emotions. Thus, we revise the concept of affective affordance to accommodate these cases. This revised concept explains more with less. Hence, it should be preferred in wide-reaching philosophical projects that aim to explain human affectivity as a situated phenomenon.

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Embodying mental affordances

Cited by 7 publications

References 36 publications

Clinical Affordances: Towards an Ecological Account of Health Affordance and Design of Clinical Learning Spaces

Clinical Affordances: Towards an Ecological Account of Health Affordance and Design of Clinical Learning Spaces

Structuring embodied minds: attention and perceptual agency

Not So Blue to be Sad: Affective Affordances and Expressive Properties in Affective Regulation

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