Can the Ecological Approach Propose Alternatives to the Problem of the Mediating Causal Status of Neural and Mental Representations? Commentary to Burgos
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.rp.e350659Keywords:
mental representations, ecological approach, brain, resonate, InvariantsAbstract
This commentary to Burgos’ target article is aimed to the problem of the causal status of neural and mental representations. It is asked whether Gibson’s proposal that centers of the nervous system, the brain included, resonate to invariant information of the environment might be extended to approach to this problem.
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Burgos, J. E. (2022). Un melodrama de la psicología. Revista de Psicología Universidad de Antioquia, 14(2), 35-63. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.rp.e350101
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