Inviting affordances and agency

Withagen, Rob; Araújo, Duarte; Poel, Harjo J. de

doi:10.1016/j.newideapsych.2016.12.002

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“…During 211 the act of perceiving, the limbs, ears or eyes of a performer explores available 212 information in an environment. Complex, structured energy fields of ambient, patterned 213 energy (i.e., information), such as light reflected from objects, are an environmental 214 resource to be sought and exploited by individuals, whocontinuously modulate their 215 interactions with the world, i.e., exerting their agency (Withagen et al, 2017). 216…”

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“…Expert players tend to exhibit fewer fixations of longer 148 durations and focus for a longer time on areas of free space that could be exploited or 149 exposed (e.g., Vaeyens et al, 2007). Again, these findings are explained as revealing the 150 7 underlying neural structure (Vickers, 2016), for example, as explained by mirror neuron 151 theory (Rizzolatti & Sinigaglia, 2016 resource to be sought and exploited by individuals, whocontinuously modulate their 215 interactions with the world, i.e., exerting their agency (Withagen et al, 2017). 216…”

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“…Indeed, each surface property has many affordances, and it is from this 676 selection of which affordance to act upon that it is possible to understand behavioural 677 dynamics in different climbers. Whether the individual takes up these possibilities or 678 not is a separate matter since affordances are not deterministic causes, i.e., one can 679 decline or accept an invitation to act in a specific way (Withagen et al 2012(Withagen et al , 2017. 680…”

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“…In this way, people are 'drawn into' interactions with affordances offered by a 683 performance environment (Withagen et al, 2017). 684…”

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Ecological cognition: expert decision-making behaviour in sport

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Hristovski

Seifert

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International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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3Expert decision-making can be directly assessed, if sport action is understood as 4 an expression of embedded and embodied cognition. Here, we discuss evidence for this 5 claim, starting with a critical review of research literature on the perceptual-cognitive 6 basis for expertise. In reviewing how performance and underlying processes are 7 conceived and captured in extant sport psychology, we evaluate arguments in favour of 8 a key role for actions in decision-making, situated in a performance environment. Key 9 assumptions of an ecological dynamics perspective are also presented, highlighting how 10 behaviours emerge from the continuous interactions in the performer-environment 11 system. Perception is of affordances; and action, as an expression of cognition, is the 12 realization of an affordance and emerges under constraints. We also discuss the role of 13 knowledge and consciousness in decision-making behaviour. Finally, we elaborate on 14 the specificities of investigating and understanding decision-making in sport from this 15 perspective. Specifically, decision-making concerns the choice of action modes when 16 perceiving an affordance during a course of action, as well as the selection of a 17 particular affordance, amongst many that exist in a landscape in a sport performance 18 environment. We conclude by pointing to some applications for the practice of sport 19 psychology and coaching and identifying avenues for future research. How expert athletes decide to do what they do is a topic that has interested 27 scientists for several decades (e.g., Beise & Peasley, 1937), and particularly sport 28 psychologists(e.g., Straub & Williams, 1984). It has been argued that sport is a most 29 appropriate context for studying expert decision-making (Gilovitch, 1984, Gilovitch et al, 30 1985. According to Gobet (2016), sport is a domain of expertise, where expertise relies 31 on perception: "experts literally 'see' things differently compared to novices" and "these 32 differences in perception and knowledge affect problem solving and decision making" 33 (Gobet, 2016, p.7). 34 Predicated on these ideas, studies of decision-making in sport have intensively 35 tested athletes'perception and anticipation, attention, memory, and decision-making. 36An important gap emerges immediately: decision-making in sport, by following trends 37 in cognitive psychology, has neglected the important role of action and its constitutive 38 role in cognition (Araújo, Ripoll & Raab, 2009;Prinz, Beisert & Herwig, 2013; Wolpert & 39 Landy, 2012). In this article, we critically overview research on the perceptual-cognitive 40 basis of decision-making, before we present an action-based alternative, from the 41 ecological dynamics framework, clarifying repercussions for theory and research in 42 sport psychology. 43 44The perceptual-cognitive framework for the study of decision-making in sport 45Currently, the perceptual-cognitive view of decision-making tends to focus on 46 use of perception, memory and decision-making tas...

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Ecological cognition: expert decision-making behaviour in sport

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“…Frijda 1986;Dreyfus and Kelly 2007;Dreyfus 2007;Heft 2010;Rietveld 2012;Withagen et al 2012;De Haan et al 2013Rietveld and Kiverstein 2014;Siegel 2014;Dotov and Chemero 2014;Romdenh-Romluc 2014;Withagen et al 2017). …”

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Understanding phenomenological differences in how affordances solicit action. An exploration

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Affordances are possibilities for action offered by the environment. Recent research on affordances holds that there are differences in how people experience such possibilities for action. However, these differences have not been properly investigated. In this paper I start by briefly scrutinizing the existing literature on this issue, and then argue for two claims. First, that whether an affordance solicits action or not depends on its relevance to the agent's concerns. Second, that the experiential character of how an affordance solicits action depends on the character of the concern to which it is relevant. Concerns are conceived of as bodily forms of responsiveness, and solicitations are experienced through this responsiveness. The main aim of this paper is to make clear that an understanding of experiential differences in solicitations has to be based on a phenomenological appreciation of how one experiences one's responsiveness to those solicitations. In the remainder of the paper I show how such a phenomenological appreciation reveals several characteristics of our responsiveness and I briefly explore three of them: valence, force and mineness. In the final section I discuss the selfreferentiality of affordances in light of the current proposal, and argue that this selfreferentiality is broader than is typically acknowledged.

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