TY - JOUR
T1 - A Rich Landscape of Affordances
AU - Rietveld, Erik
AU - Kiverstein, Julian
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - How broad is the class of affordances we can perceive? Affordances (Gibson, 1979/1986) are possibilities for action provided to an animal by the environment-by the substances, surfaces, objects, and other living creatures that surround it. A widespread assumption has been that affordances primarily relate to motor action-to locomotion and manual behaviors such as reaching and grasping. We propose an account of affordances according to which the concept of affordances has a much broader application than has hitherto been supposed. We argue that the affordances an environment offers to an animal are dependent on the skills the animal possesses. By virtue of our many abilities, the landscape of affordances we inhabit as humans is very rich and resourceful
AB - How broad is the class of affordances we can perceive? Affordances (Gibson, 1979/1986) are possibilities for action provided to an animal by the environment-by the substances, surfaces, objects, and other living creatures that surround it. A widespread assumption has been that affordances primarily relate to motor action-to locomotion and manual behaviors such as reaching and grasping. We propose an account of affordances according to which the concept of affordances has a much broader application than has hitherto been supposed. We argue that the affordances an environment offers to an animal are dependent on the skills the animal possesses. By virtue of our many abilities, the landscape of affordances we inhabit as humans is very rich and resourceful
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1080/10407413.2014.958035
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/10407413.2014.958035
M3 - Article
SN - 1040-7413
VL - 26
SP - 325
EP - 352
JO - ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
JF - ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
IS - 4
ER -