Enactive account of pretend play and its application to therapy.
Frontiers in Psychology 2015 Zuzanna Rucińska, Ellen Reijmers 19 citations
This paper informs therapeutic practices that use play, by providing a non-standard philosophical account of pretense: the enactive account of pretend play (EAPP). The EAPP holds that pretend play activity need not invoke mental representational mechanisms; instead, it focuses on interaction and the role of affordances in shaping pretend play activity. One advantage of this re-characterization...