Frontiers paper well read

Frontiers’ Journal Manager just wrote that our recent sketch on how the notion of a ‘landscape of affordances’ can help embodied cognitive science to deal with the difficult open issue of context-sensitivity is among their most downloaded articles. Download the PDF here:

Kiverstein, J. & Rietveld, E. (2012), Dealing with context through action-oriented predictive processingFrontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 3 (421), pp. 1-2.

Rietveld Landscape on Frontiers: Industrial Jurassic

The image above shows how Rietveld Landscape deals with frontiers: the installation ‘Industrial Jurassic’ changes the local landscape of affordances temporarily, offering people the possibility to cross the border between Belgium and The Netherlands for one day.

Sydney research visit

This week I will be visiting the philosopher John Sutton and his interdisciplinary research group in Sydney to learn more about their work on distributed cognition in expert perfomance (in music, top sports, etc.). This is a preparation for a new embedded research project on distributed ‘higher’ cognition in architectural design.