2025/09/01 by Vicente Raja, Klaus Gramann · 1 voice · 2 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Artificial intelligence #Cognition #Cognitive psychology #Cognitive science #Computer science #Consciousness #Control (management) #EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces #Ecological psychology #Ecological validity #Ecology #Embodied cognition #Functional Brain Connectivity Studies #Functional magnetic resonance imaging #Neural dynamics and brain function #Neuroscience #Object (grammar) #Psychology
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/psyp.70136
published in Psychophysiology 62(9), e70136 (Wiley)
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We designed an object interception task using virtual reality and mobile brain/body imaging to test two core hypotheses of ecological psychology and radical embodied cognitive (neuro)science: the ecological resonance hypothesis and the information-based control laws hypothesis. These two hypotheses define an alternative explanatory strategy that aims to understand the organization and control of behavior without appealing to internal models or representations of any kind. The ecological resonance hypothesis was evaluated in relation to the ecological variable known as tau (τ) or time-to-contact (TTC). Concurrently, the hypothesis of information-based control laws was investigated by examining the τ-coupling control law. The results of the study show ecological resonance to τ along with τ-coupling between stimulation, behavior, and neural activity, therefore offering support to both hypotheses.