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The role of affordances in technological cognition

Gärdenfors, Peter LU (2025) In Cognitive Neuroscience
Abstract

The model of technological cognition presented by Federico et al. does not specify how information is processed in and between the different hubs. Following Cisek’s proposal for an ‘ecological’ perspective on cognition, I discuss the role of affordances in action specification and action selection. Artifacts afford a multitude of action, but most of them must be learned. This involves learning new causal mappings from actions to effects.

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action representation, Action selection, action specification, affordances, causal mappings, ecological perspective, perception, technological cognition
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Cognitive Neuroscience
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Routledge
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  • scopus:105021299810
  • pmid:41201124
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1758-8928
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10.1080/17588928.2025.2585996
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English
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Publisher Copyright: © 2025 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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