What developmental scientists have contributed working within ecological psychology and transactionalism

The womb and the skin as false boundaries in perception–action and development: A response

“…Despite the developmental focus of many ecological psychologists (see Walker-Andrews, 2003), Moore (2003) may be quite correct in stating that an ecological approach to development requires that ''antecedents of perception and action systems'' already be in place. For the most part, it is the bias of ecological psychologists to begin with an organism that has developed at least some degree of perception-action capability; however, the degree of perception-action capability required is a matter of debate.…”

“…Schmuckler (2003) refers to these changes as the ''experiential-scaling'' of affordances. Experiential scaling has the potential to affect affordances in much the same way as body scaling (see Adolph, 1995Adolph, , 1997Konczak, Meeuwsen, & Cross, 1992;Schmuckler, 2003;Smitsman, 1997;Walker-Andrews, 2003;Warren, 1995).…”

“…Attunement to changing affordance structures has been a large focus of developmental ecological psychologists (see E. J. Gibson & Pick, 2001;Walker-Andrews, 2003).…”

“…The commentaries on our article in this issue of Developmental Psychobiology (Wagman & Miller, 2003) raise many valuable and interesting points, not the least of which is a review of the human developmental literature that seems to fall at the intersection of the ecological and transactional approaches (see Walker-Andrews, 2003;Schmuckler, 2003). We gratefully acknowledge this contribution.…”

A question of questions: Comments on Wagman and Miller

“…'', it in fact already has contributed greatly to the understanding of developmental processes across a wide range of areas. As an illustration of such contributions, the commentary by Walker-Andrews (2003) elegantly highlights some of the important advances to our understanding of developmental and perceptual processes made by developmental psychologists working within the ecological perspective.…”