Marianne Davies
Researcher and practitioner with interests in perception, action, and coaching who joins the conversation to relate ecological ideas to applied contexts like coaching, motor learning, and robotics.
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Sep 30, 2025 • 1h 12min
551 – Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, Chapters 15 and 16 (JC53)
Andrew Wilson, a researcher in ecological psychology, and Marianne Davies, a keen critic of perception theories, delve into Turvey's unconventional perspective on Gestalt theory. They discuss the nuances of stimulus ambiguity and critique the tendency to ascribe perceptual order to neural processes rather than environmental information. The conversation explores the implications of Gibson's ideas on action and control, contrasts affordances with categorization, and examines the limitations of computational theories in understanding perception. A thought-provoking dissection of perception theory awaits!
Oct 14, 2025 • 1h 5min
552 – Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, Chapters 17-19 (JC54)
Join cognitive scientist Andrew Wilson, who dives deep into perception and ecological theory, and researcher Marianne Davies, who connects these ideas to coaching and robotics. They explore why categorization often fails in understanding action and how optic flow offers better navigation cues than object recognition. The discussion reveals the limitations of symbolic AI, emphasizing embodied robotics. Furthermore, they challenge traditional views of language in perception, advocating for direct perception as a more viable approach.
