The Perception & Action Podcast

Looking at Chapters 3 and 4 from Gibson's "1979 book": The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception Links: The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google   Support the podcast and receive bonus content   Credits: The Fl...

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: Ecological cognition: expert decision-making behaviour in sport http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)  ...

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: The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google   Support t...

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: Radical Embodied Cognitive Science A non ‐ representational approach to imagined actio...

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: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691825000782 http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Subscribe in iOS/Apple Su...

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: A Theory of Resonance: Towards an Ecological Cognitive Architecture From metaphor to theory: the role of resonance in perceptual learning http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Fa...

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: https://www.amazon.com/Lectures-Perception-Perspective-Michael-Turvey/dp/1138335266 http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Face...

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: The ecological dynamics of cognizant action in sport http://perceptionaction.com/...

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: https://www.amazon.com/Lectures-Perception-Perspective-Michael-Turvey/dp/1138335266 http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podc...

556 – State of the Podcast An update on the future of the podcast moving into 2026. http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google   Support the podcast and receive bonus content   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies – Shake\Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy...

On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson and Marianne Davies to discuss chapters 22 and 23 from Michael Turvey's book "Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective" Links: https://www.amazon.com/Lectures-Perception-Perspective-Michael-Turvey/dp/1138335266 http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podc...

On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson and Marianne Davies to discuss chapters 20 and 21 from Michael Turvey's book "Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective" Links: https://www.amazon.com/Lectures-Perception-Perspective-Michael-Turvey/dp/1138335266 http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podc...

I am joined by Bertrand Théraulaz and Prashant Patel to discuss the Motor Signatures used to identify an athlete's intrinsic dynamics or preferred patterns of coordination. Links: https://motorsignatures.com/ http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google   Suppor...

On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson and Marianne Davies to discuss chapters 17-19 from Michael Turvey's book "Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective" Links: https://www.amazon.com/Lectures-Perception-Perspective-Michael-Turvey/dp/1138335266 http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast...

On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson and Marianne Davies to discuss chapters 15 and 16 from Michael Turvey's book "Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective" Links: https://www.amazon.com/Lectures-Perception-Perspective-Michael-Turvey/dp/1138335266 http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podc...

A smorgasbord of stuff to celebrate my 550 th episode "milestone"! 3 new books!!   A webinar and workshop. Ways to organize a workshop.   And having some fun with YouTube comments. Books: Enhancing skill in American football: Revolutionizing practice design for transfer to game day The advanced ecological approach to skill development Constraints-Led Approach to Coaching Tennis   Webinars & Worksh...

I am joined by Shawn Myszka from Emergence to talk about our newly released book (w// Tyler Yearby) - Enhancing skill in American football: revolutionizing practice design for transfer to game day. Articles: Enhancing skill in American football: Revolutionizing practice design for transfer to game day http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast...

A 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?   Articles: 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   More inf...

How effective are coaches at designing and adapting constraints? Which has more impact: manipulating informational/verbal constraints or other (physical) task constraints? Articles: The influence of coaches' intervention on the technical-tactical performance dynamics of young soccer players http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook pa...

How does the quality and quantity of search for a movement solution differ for linear and nonlinear training approaches? Is it the case that linear approaches restrict the development of functional movement variability? Is there any case for ever using a linear approach? Links: The influence of linear and nonlinear pedagogies on movement exploration   of a weightlifting skill http://perceptionacti...

On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson and Marianne Davies to discuss chapters 13 and 14 from Michael Turvey's book "Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective" Links: https://www.amazon.com/Lectures-Perception-Perspective-Michael-Turvey/dp/1138335266 http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podc...

A few personal updates and a preview of my next book: The Advanced Ecological Approach to Skill Development: Getting More Out of the CLA Links: https://perceptionaction.com/book/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google   Support the podcast and receive bonus content   Credits: The Flam...

Revisiting the topic of calibration in direct learning, with a specific focus on why we lose calibration when not practicing. The blessing and curse of having a high learning rate. Articles: Better with each throw—a study on calibration and warm-up decrement of real-time consecutive basketball free throws in elite NBA athletes A serial-position curve in high-performance darts: the effect of visuom...

How quickly does a skill decay if we don't practice? How does it depend on factors such as complexity? What are the best ways to maintain skill? Articles: Procedural skill retention and decay: A meta-analytic review. An extended challenge-based framework for practice design in sports coaching My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Su...

What is Simplexity? How does it relate to Task Simplification? And a look at another study providing evidence against the fundamentals first approach. Articles: The impact of task simplification in skill acquisition for young children from a simplexity approach My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe i...