Ellen Reijmers

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...