The Enactive Torch: Promoting first-person phenomenology in the study of enactive perception
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Since its inception in the early 1990s the enactive approach to perception has been generating an extensive amount of interest and debate in the cognitive sciences. The original idea behind this approach can be summarized by the claim that perceiving is not about the recovery of a perceiver-independent world, but rather consists in perceptually guided, embodied action. More recently, the approach has contributed to perception being conceptualized as a skillful mode of exploring the environment, which draws on bodily know-how of sensorimotor regularities.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008