#1124 Miguel Segundo Ortín & Vicente Raja: Ecological Psychology

Jul 17, 2025

Miguel Segundo Ortín, a philosophy researcher at Universidad de Murcia, and Vicente Raja, a post-doctoral researcher at the same institution, dive into ecological psychology. They discuss the relationship between perception and action, emphasizing how environments influence cognitive processes. The duo explores affordances, explaining how we perceive interaction opportunities without complex thought. They also touch on the link between ecological psychology and neurosciences, advocating for ecologically valid experiments, and reflect on the community's role in advancing this innovative field.

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Ecological Psychology Basics

Ecological psychology studies perception and action as a system connecting organism and environment.
It offers an alternative to cognitive psychology, focusing on direct interaction without internal models.

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History of Ecological Psychology

Ecological psychology emerged historically as an alternative to mainstream cognitive psychology.
James Gibson developed it based on radical empiricism, rejecting impoverished stimulus ideas.

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Links to Other Psychologies

Ecological psychology links to behaviorism, gestalt psychology, and phenomenology but diverges notably.
It adopts a realist stance on structured external information and extends body-centered perception.

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Dr. Miguel Segundo Ortín is a Ramón y Cajal research fellow in the Philosophy Department at Universidad de Murcia, Spain, and a member of the Minimal Intelligence Lab (MINT Lab). His research focuses on the philosophy of the cognitive sciences, with a particular emphasis on ecological (neo-Gibsonian) psychology and other embodied and situated theories of cognition.

Dr. Vicente Raja is a post-doctoral researcher at the MINT Lab, a research fellow at University of Murcia (Spain) and external affiliate faculty of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University (Canada).

They are the authors of Ecological Psychology.

In this episode, we focus on Ecological Psychology. We start by talking about what ecological psychology is, as well as its history. We discuss how it relates to gestalt psychology, phenomenology, and behaviorism. We talk about the study of perception and action, and some of the main concepts in ecological psychology, with a focus on affordances. We discuss embodied cognition, 4E cognition, and dynamical systems theory. We also talk about the current status of ecological psychology, as well as its future. Finally, we discuss how it can be integrated with neuroscience, and the study of social coordination and culture.

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