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Ecological information and prospective control without mental representation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2002

Nam-Gyoon Kim
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ 07470 kimn@wpunj.edu
Judith A. Effken
Affiliation:
College of Nursing, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0203 jeffken@nursing.arizona.edu
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Abstract

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We agree with the authors that an adequate account of the perception-action interface is needed. However, we believe that the answer will not be found in a common representational structure encoding distal events, as the authors propose, but in Gibson's notion of ecological information, which, as we demonstrate, specifies not only perspective but also prospective and retrospective states of affairs.

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© 2001 Cambridge University Press