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Luis H. H. Favela, "The Ecological Brain: Unifying the Sciences of Brain, Body, and Environment" (Routledge, 2024)
May 10, 2024
Luis H. H. Favela, an expert in ecological psychology, discusses the integration of brain, body, and environment in perception and action. He introduces the NeuroEcological Nexus Theory to reconcile ecological psychology and neuroscience, emphasizing affordances and complexity science. The podcast explores historical perspectives, spatial navigation encoding, complexity synthesis, brain functions, and future directions in cognitive phenomena.
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- Ecological psychology emphasizes dynamic brain-body-environment interactions over representation manipulation in neuroscience.
- The NeuroEcological Nexus Theory integrates complexity science to reconcile ecological psychology and neuroscience frameworks.
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The Ecological Brain: Reconciling Ecological Psychology and Neuroscience
Ecological psychology challenges the dominant trends in neuroscience by emphasizing dynamic interactions between brain, body, and environment over representation manipulation. Through the Neuroecological Nexus Theory, complexity science integrates ecological psychology and neuroscience, facilitating a unified framework. This framework addresses affordances as dimensional reductions of ecological information coordinating neural activity, bodily energies, and environmental cues. The reconciliation enables exploring both low-level perception-action and higher-level cognitive phenomena without rigid computational or representational constraints.
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