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Melina Gastelum

2 papers in the library · 14 citations · publishing 2018-2020

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Scale Matters: Temporality in the Perception of Affordances.

Frontiers in Psychology 2020 Melina Gastelum 14 citations

In this paper I seek to unify enactive and ecological approaches to cognitive science by emphasizing the fact that both approaches view cognitive processes as being inherently temporally extended. My hypothesis is that characterizing the temporal scales in which perception of affordances occur, they can serve different purposes of explanation within the theories. Specifically, the paper brings...

The strength of weak embodiment.

International journal of psychological research 2018 Carlos Tirado, Omid Khatin-Zadeh, Melina Gastelum et al.

While popular within some cognitive science approaches, the embodiment approach has still found resistance, particularly in light of evidence arguing against strong forms of embodiment. Among other things, the embodiment approach breaks away from the Cartesian ontology of the modulatory system. We claim that the advantages of the embodiment approach are: a) it grounds cognition into modal...