The Perception & Action Podcast 559 – Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, Chapter 26 (JC58)
Feb 3, 2026
Marianne Davies, a practitioner-researcher linking perception-action to sport and flow, and Andrew Wilson, an ecological perception researcher analyzing theory distinctions. They debate strong vs weak anticipation, how event structure and information guide action, connections to flow and animal behavior, deception and randomness in timing, and how affordances, coupling, and action shape anticipation.
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Resonance To Lawful Information
- Behavior can be regular without explicit regulation by resonating to lawful information.
- Resonance to information lets systems exploit causal structures to produce reliable action.
Events Provide Temporal Information
- Event structure supplies information that spans past, present and future.
- Examples like occlusion show perception uses lawful event information, supporting strong anticipation and memory.
Occlusion Experiments Support Event Perception
- Empirical tests (Scholl & Pylyshyn) show progressive occlusion preserves object continuity.
- When optical information implodes, tracking fails, proving perception uses event-based information.
