Ecological mechanisms in cognitive science

Golonka, Sabrina; Wilson, Andrew D.

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“…This ecological task-dynamics analysis has so far been developed most completely in the context of coordinated rhythmic movement (Bingham, 2001 , 2004a , 2004b , Golonka & Wilson, 2012 , 2019b ; Snapp-Childs, Wilson, & Bingham, 2011 ; Snapp-Childs, Wilson, & Bingham, 2015 ). The next section will briefly review that work and then set up the current study as the next step in the research programme.…”

Section: Ecological Task Dynamicsmentioning

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Perceptual information supports transfer of learning in coordinated rhythmic movement

Leach

Kolokotroni

Wilson

2020

Psychological Research

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In this paper, we trained people to produce 90° mean relative phase using task-appropriate feedback and investigated whether and how that learning transfers to other coordinations. Past work has failed to find transfer of learning to other relative phases, only to symmetry partners (identical coordinations with reversed lead-lag relationships) and to other effector combinations. However, that research has all trained people using transformed visual feedback (visual metronomes, Lissajous feedback) which removes the relative motion information typically used to produce various coordinations (relative direction, relative position; Wilson and Bingham, in Percept Psychophys 70 (3):465-476, 2008). Coordination feedback (Wilson et al., in J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 36(6):1508, 2010) preserves that information and we have recently shown that relative position supports transfer of learning between unimanual and bimanual performance of 90° (Snapp-Childs et al., in Exp Brain Res 233 (7), [2225][2226][2227][2228][2229][2230][2231][2232][2233][2234][2235][2236][2237][2238] 2015). Here, we ask whether that information can support the production of other relative phases. We found large, asymmetric transfer of learning bimanual 90° to bimanual 60° and 120°, supported by perceptual learning of relative position information at 90°. For learning to transfer, the two tasks must overlap in some critical way; this is additional evidence that this overlap must be informational. We discuss the results in the context of an ecological, task dynamical approach to understanding the nature of perception-action tasks.Publisher's Note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

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Section: Ecological Task Dynamicsmentioning

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“…We propose it is the latter. We will take an ecological, task-dynamics approach to understanding what a task is and what performance in that task is made of (Golonka & Wilson, 2012 , 2019a ; Wilson & Golonka, 2013 ). We will then apply that framework to the problem of when learning might transfer.…”

Section: Ecological Task Dynamicsmentioning

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Perceptual information supports transfer of learning in coordinated rhythmic movement

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Kolokotroni

Wilson

2020

Psychological Research

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“…Because all organisms must feed, the behavior seems uncontroversial, and in need of mechanical explanation. Indeed, mechanism seems to be the preferred type of explanation in much work within the field (Golonka and Wilson, 2019). To the extent that behavior and environment are characterized to the satisfaction of a community of observers, the Gibsonian analysis appears especially insightful.…”

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Zoom Out Camera! The Reflexive Character of an Enactive Account

Cummins

2020

Front. Psychol.

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The reflexive character of enactive theory is spelled out, in an effort to make explicit that which is usually implicit in debate: that we are responsible for the distinctions we draw, and that ultimately, the world that we collectively characterize is a joint production. Enaction, as treated here, is not a positivist scientific field, but an epistemologically self-conscious way to ground our understanding of the value-saturated lives of embodied beings. This stance is seen as entirely congruent with the scientific field of ecological psychology, which is itself then cast as a specific example of the kind of science that can be done in an enactive mode.

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“…This ecological task-dynamics analysis has so far been developed most completely in the context of coordinated rhythmic movement (Bingham, 2001, 2004a, 2004b, Golonka & Wilson, 2012, 2019bSnapp-Childs, Wilson, & Bingham, 2011;Snapp-Childs, Wilson, & Bingham, 2015). The next section will briefly review that work and then set up the current study as the next step in the research programme.…”

Section: Transfer Of Task Dynamical Learningmentioning

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“…This suggests that the stability pattern emerges from the way we perceive coordination dynamics. Bingham (2001Bingham ( , 2004aBingham ( , 2004bSnapp-Childs et al, 2011) applied an ecological task dynamical analysis to coordination (see Golonka & Wilson, 2012, 2019b for an extended review of this analysis process). The goal was to correctly characterize the dynamical structure of the task of coordinated rhythmic movement, and then to identify the resulting perceptual information about relative phase that people might use.…”

Section: The Task Dynamics Of Coordinated Rhythmic Movementmentioning

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Perceptual Information Supports Transfer of Learning in Coordinated Rhythmic Movement

Leach¹,

Kolokotroni²,

Wilson³

2019

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In this paper, we trained people to produce 90° mean relative phase using task-appropriate feedback and investigated whether and how that learning transfers to other coordinations. Past work has failed to find transfer of learning to other relative phases, only to symmetry partners (identical coordinations with reversed lead-lag relationships) and to other effector combinations. However, that research has all trained people using transformed visual feedback (visual metronomes, Lissajous feedback) which removes the relative motion information typically used to produce various coordinations (relative direction, relative position; Wilson & Bingham, 2008) . Coordination feedback (Wilson, Snapp-Childs, Coats, & Bingham, 2010) preserves that information and we have recently shown that relative position supports transfer of learning between unimanual and bimanual performance of 90° (Snapp-Childs, Wilson, & Bingham, 2015). Here we ask whether that information can support the production of other relative phases. We found large, asymmetric transfer of learning bimanual 90° to bimanual 60° and 120°, supported by perceptual learning of relative position information at 90°. For learning to transfer, the two tasks must overlap in some critical way; this is additional evidence that this overlap must be informational. We discuss the results in the context of an ecological, task dynamical approach to understanding the nature of perception-action tasks.

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Ecological mechanisms in cognitive science

Cited by 16 publications

References 106 publications

Perceptual information supports transfer of learning in coordinated rhythmic movement

Perceptual information supports transfer of learning in coordinated rhythmic movement

Zoom Out Camera! The Reflexive Character of an Enactive Account

Perceptual Information Supports Transfer of Learning in Coordinated Rhythmic Movement

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