Dio D. Vicen
@diovicen.bsky.social
Vicente Raja; but I want to be Luffy.
Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the University of Murcia (Spain).
Associate Faculty at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy (Canada).
Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the University of Murcia (Spain).
Associate Faculty at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy (Canada).
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Dio D. Vicen
@diovicen.bsky.social
· Dec 29
What Is Radical Embodiment? - Interviews at Dimensions of Radical Embodiment
YouTube video by Myrtos Research Group - MINT Lab
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Last summer, we asked some friends what "radical embodiment" is. These are their answers. They are diverse and cool. Check them out! ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwtS...
(w/ @tonychemero.bsky.social, @edbaggs.bsky.social, and others).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwtS...
(w/ @tonychemero.bsky.social, @edbaggs.bsky.social, and others).
"Ecological psychology and the mirror of nature" is now open access. (by @tonychemero.bsky.social and yours truly)
www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/read-...
www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/read-...
January 5, 2026 at 1:31 PM
"Ecological psychology and the mirror of nature" is now open access. (by @tonychemero.bsky.social and yours truly)
www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/read-...
www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/read-...
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Just signed a contract for a Cambridge Elements in Ecological Neuroscience! With @diovicen.bsky.social Look for it in a year or so.
www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
Elements in Philosophy of MInd
Welcome to Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org
December 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Just signed a contract for a Cambridge Elements in Ecological Neuroscience! With @diovicen.bsky.social Look for it in a year or so.
www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
As an ecological psychologist, when I read:
"the PBDR approach is always grounded in the physics of light transport... [...]... because it allows the identification of perceptual invariants."
It actually sounds like: "we use the optic array to find perceptual invariants."
I like it!
"the PBDR approach is always grounded in the physics of light transport... [...]... because it allows the identification of perceptual invariants."
It actually sounds like: "we use the optic array to find perceptual invariants."
I like it!
Legit super excited about this work coming out. My amazing doctoral student @ben.graphics has been working on an idea to use physically based differentiable rendering (PBDR) to probe visual understanding. Here, we generate physically-grounded metamers for vision models. 1/4
arxiv.org/abs/2512.12307
arxiv.org/abs/2512.12307
December 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
As an ecological psychologist, when I read:
"the PBDR approach is always grounded in the physics of light transport... [...]... because it allows the identification of perceptual invariants."
It actually sounds like: "we use the optic array to find perceptual invariants."
I like it!
"the PBDR approach is always grounded in the physics of light transport... [...]... because it allows the identification of perceptual invariants."
It actually sounds like: "we use the optic array to find perceptual invariants."
I like it!
A little bit of spam, but this one is honestly one of my favourite papers I've participated in.
I still think there's a whole dissertation to be written on this topic--ecological psychology & epistemology.
I still think there's a whole dissertation to be written on this topic--ecological psychology & epistemology.
Ecological psychology and the mirror of nature (by @diovicen.bsky.social, @tonychemero.bsky.social)
Ecological psychology and the mirror of nature | 6 | Analytic Philosop
There is a passage in The Language of Thought in which Jerry Fodor criticizes James and Eleanor Gibson’s theory of perception. Richard Rorty discusses this
www.taylorfrancis.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A little bit of spam, but this one is honestly one of my favourite papers I've participated in.
I still think there's a whole dissertation to be written on this topic--ecological psychology & epistemology.
I still think there's a whole dissertation to be written on this topic--ecological psychology & epistemology.
"meaningful affordances"
"bio-mechanical affordances"
"mental affordances"
"non-representational affordances"
Please stop. Stop with the adjectives. It makes no sense. Thank you.
"bio-mechanical affordances"
"mental affordances"
"non-representational affordances"
Please stop. Stop with the adjectives. It makes no sense. Thank you.
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"meaningful affordances"
"bio-mechanical affordances"
"mental affordances"
"non-representational affordances"
Please stop. Stop with the adjectives. It makes no sense. Thank you.
"bio-mechanical affordances"
"mental affordances"
"non-representational affordances"
Please stop. Stop with the adjectives. It makes no sense. Thank you.
I've been talking about ecological neuroscience and other topics with @braininspired.bsky.social on the Brain Inspired podcast. You can check it out here 👇
youtu.be/Aj3LyStBgpg
youtu.be/Aj3LyStBgpg
BI 223 Vicente Raja: Ecological Psychology Motifs in Neuroscience
YouTube video by Brain Inspired
youtu.be
October 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I've been talking about ecological neuroscience and other topics with @braininspired.bsky.social on the Brain Inspired podcast. You can check it out here 👇
youtu.be/Aj3LyStBgpg
youtu.be/Aj3LyStBgpg
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What is plant nutation?
What is a motif in science?
What lessons does ecological psychology have for neuroscience?
How does Vicente @diovicen.bsky.social enjoy the band Judas Priest yet still do good philosophy and science?
Here are the answers:
braininspired.co/podcast/223/
What is a motif in science?
What lessons does ecological psychology have for neuroscience?
How does Vicente @diovicen.bsky.social enjoy the band Judas Priest yet still do good philosophy and science?
Here are the answers:
braininspired.co/podcast/223/
October 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
What is plant nutation?
What is a motif in science?
What lessons does ecological psychology have for neuroscience?
How does Vicente @diovicen.bsky.social enjoy the band Judas Priest yet still do good philosophy and science?
Here are the answers:
braininspired.co/podcast/223/
What is a motif in science?
What lessons does ecological psychology have for neuroscience?
How does Vicente @diovicen.bsky.social enjoy the band Judas Priest yet still do good philosophy and science?
Here are the answers:
braininspired.co/podcast/223/
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Some friends and I submitted a commentary
Preprint here:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
@guicogsci.bsky.social @segundo-ortin.bsky.social @diovicen.bsky.social @tonychemero.bsky.social
Preprint here:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
@guicogsci.bsky.social @segundo-ortin.bsky.social @diovicen.bsky.social @tonychemero.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Some friends and I submitted a commentary
Preprint here:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
@guicogsci.bsky.social @segundo-ortin.bsky.social @diovicen.bsky.social @tonychemero.bsky.social
Preprint here:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
@guicogsci.bsky.social @segundo-ortin.bsky.social @diovicen.bsky.social @tonychemero.bsky.social
Is ecological neuroscience a feasible enterprise? After some theoretical work on ecological resonance, we've engaged on experimental research to test some of the hypotheses that follow from it. These are the first results of (hopefully) many more to come! It's open access 👇
doi.org/10.1111/psyp...
doi.org/10.1111/psyp...
<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library
This study bridges brain and body through ecological psychology and neuroscience by demonstrating how ecological information—in this case, “time to contact” or tau—constrains brain activity and as mu...
doi.org
September 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Is ecological neuroscience a feasible enterprise? After some theoretical work on ecological resonance, we've engaged on experimental research to test some of the hypotheses that follow from it. These are the first results of (hopefully) many more to come! It's open access 👇
doi.org/10.1111/psyp...
doi.org/10.1111/psyp...
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Want to make sure @mljanderson.bsky.social and @diovicen.bsky.social are seeing this.
Sad day for peope who still believe brain areas are the primary organizational units of function in the brain.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour - Nature
The International Brain Laboratory presents a brain-wide electrophysiological map obtained from pooling data from 12 laboratories that performed the same standardized perceptual decision-making task i...
www.nature.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Want to make sure @mljanderson.bsky.social and @diovicen.bsky.social are seeing this.
"Although neuroscience has developed powerful tools for measuring brain activity, its behavioral measures are far more primitive, as it lacks a coherent conceptual framework for analyzing and interpreting behavior."
True! Happy to see this idea is growing.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
True! Happy to see this idea is growing.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Aligning brain and behavior
To understand how the brain generates behavior, both brain activity and behavior must be measured accurately. Although neuroscience has developed powe…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"Although neuroscience has developed powerful tools for measuring brain activity, its behavioral measures are far more primitive, as it lacks a coherent conceptual framework for analyzing and interpreting behavior."
True! Happy to see this idea is growing.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
True! Happy to see this idea is growing.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It never ceases to amaze me how angry some people in mainstream cognitive science get when one talks about non-representation/non-computation while they completely refuse to at least read something about it so they can have an actual reason to be angry that is not just "hey, normal science, bro".
August 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
It never ceases to amaze me how angry some people in mainstream cognitive science get when one talks about non-representation/non-computation while they completely refuse to at least read something about it so they can have an actual reason to be angry that is not just "hey, normal science, bro".
@segundo-ortin.bsky.social and I were talking about ecological psychology with @thedissenteryt.bsky.social:
youtu.be/s6EwRYqmP64
www.thedissenter.net
youtu.be/s6EwRYqmP64
www.thedissenter.net
#1124 Miguel Segundo Ortín & Vicente Raja: Ecological Psychology
YouTube video by The Dissenter
youtu.be
July 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
@segundo-ortin.bsky.social and I were talking about ecological psychology with @thedissenteryt.bsky.social:
youtu.be/s6EwRYqmP64
www.thedissenter.net
youtu.be/s6EwRYqmP64
www.thedissenter.net
My impression is we’ve lost this kind of thinking in contemporary neuroscience: that we need good theories of the brain and *behavior* to explain stuff. James, Lashley, Hebb, Tolman, Skinner, Gibson… They all agreed on that.
Karl Lashley, writing in 1930, on the Basic Neural Mechanisms of Behaviour: wexler.free.fr/library/file...
July 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
My impression is we’ve lost this kind of thinking in contemporary neuroscience: that we need good theories of the brain and *behavior* to explain stuff. James, Lashley, Hebb, Tolman, Skinner, Gibson… They all agreed on that.
David Lee just died.
He formulated tau/time-to-contact, the most famous bit of ecological information.
He is one of the main reasons why ecological psychology is still alive.
We all are indebted to him. I met him once and ended up having dinner at his place. Very cool guy!
RIP
He formulated tau/time-to-contact, the most famous bit of ecological information.
He is one of the main reasons why ecological psychology is still alive.
We all are indebted to him. I met him once and ended up having dinner at his place. Very cool guy!
RIP
July 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
David Lee just died.
He formulated tau/time-to-contact, the most famous bit of ecological information.
He is one of the main reasons why ecological psychology is still alive.
We all are indebted to him. I met him once and ended up having dinner at his place. Very cool guy!
RIP
He formulated tau/time-to-contact, the most famous bit of ecological information.
He is one of the main reasons why ecological psychology is still alive.
We all are indebted to him. I met him once and ended up having dinner at his place. Very cool guy!
RIP
Affordances are motifs. Representations are motifs. A sentence with both words can mean anything! 😱
This'll drive the ecological psychology / direct perception folks nuts! Yes, affordances have to be represented! 😅
We studied affordances, a term introduced by Gibson (1979) to describe the idea that vision entails perceiving the action possibilities of environments. We wanted to know: can we find evidence that the human brain represents perceived affordances of scenes?
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
June 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Affordances are motifs. Representations are motifs. A sentence with both words can mean anything! 😱
No os lo vais a creer, pero en el otro lado hay un grupo de filo-bros discutiendo durante días sobre si hay ideología en la ciencia. Al quinto día empiezan a apelar a Popper. Hay que quererlos.
June 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
No os lo vais a creer, pero en el otro lado hay un grupo de filo-bros discutiendo durante días sobre si hay ideología en la ciencia. Al quinto día empiezan a apelar a Popper. Hay que quererlos.
I work (mostly) on ecological psychology and (often) on plant intelligence. And you can’t imagine the amount of ideological reviews I get. Really bad scholarship, if you ask me.
Is this also the case for people working on more mainstream frameworks?
Is this also the case for people working on more mainstream frameworks?
May 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I work (mostly) on ecological psychology and (often) on plant intelligence. And you can’t imagine the amount of ideological reviews I get. Really bad scholarship, if you ask me.
Is this also the case for people working on more mainstream frameworks?
Is this also the case for people working on more mainstream frameworks?
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¡NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!
"A World of Minds: Ecological Psychology as a Framework for Comparative Cognition"
Authors: Miguel Segundo-Ortin, Paco Calvo, & Louise Barrett
You can download it from here: miguelsegundoortinphd.com/publications
"A World of Minds: Ecological Psychology as a Framework for Comparative Cognition"
Authors: Miguel Segundo-Ortin, Paco Calvo, & Louise Barrett
You can download it from here: miguelsegundoortinphd.com/publications
Publications – Miguel Segundo Ortín, PhD
miguelsegundoortinphd.com
May 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
¡NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!
"A World of Minds: Ecological Psychology as a Framework for Comparative Cognition"
Authors: Miguel Segundo-Ortin, Paco Calvo, & Louise Barrett
You can download it from here: miguelsegundoortinphd.com/publications
"A World of Minds: Ecological Psychology as a Framework for Comparative Cognition"
Authors: Miguel Segundo-Ortin, Paco Calvo, & Louise Barrett
You can download it from here: miguelsegundoortinphd.com/publications
This might be the best BlueSky thread to date.
Don't be like Vinny.
Don't be like Vinny.
Philosophy has jumped the shark.
If anyone in the philosophy community wonders why their neuroscientist colleagues don’t pay them any mind, read this paper.
bsky.app/profile/zoed...
If anyone in the philosophy community wonders why their neuroscientist colleagues don’t pay them any mind, read this paper.
bsky.app/profile/zoed...
My paper 'Representations are (still) theoretical posits' is forthcoming in a special of Theoria on representations in cognitive science. Preprint available at philpapers.org/rec/DRARAS-2.
May 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This might be the best BlueSky thread to date.
Don't be like Vinny.
Don't be like Vinny.
In an alternative universe, cog. scientists *read* eco. psych. and find out that...
1. The foundational texts of eco. psych. (Gibson 1966, 1979) don't talk about representations.
2. Affordances aren't what they think they are.
3. The core is ecological information.
4. 50 years+ of experimental work.
1. The foundational texts of eco. psych. (Gibson 1966, 1979) don't talk about representations.
2. Affordances aren't what they think they are.
3. The core is ecological information.
4. 50 years+ of experimental work.
April 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM
In an alternative universe, cog. scientists *read* eco. psych. and find out that...
1. The foundational texts of eco. psych. (Gibson 1966, 1979) don't talk about representations.
2. Affordances aren't what they think they are.
3. The core is ecological information.
4. 50 years+ of experimental work.
1. The foundational texts of eco. psych. (Gibson 1966, 1979) don't talk about representations.
2. Affordances aren't what they think they are.
3. The core is ecological information.
4. 50 years+ of experimental work.
I'm happy & sad.
Happy part: the word "ecological" becomes usual in neuroscience.
Sad part: "affordances", yes, but the aim is to find how they are encoded in the brain.
Some eco. psychs. in the project would've made it radical but perhaps more interesting? Something like: doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
Happy part: the word "ecological" becomes usual in neuroscience.
Sad part: "affordances", yes, but the aim is to find how they are encoded in the brain.
Some eco. psychs. in the project would've made it radical but perhaps more interesting? Something like: doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
April 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I'm happy & sad.
Happy part: the word "ecological" becomes usual in neuroscience.
Sad part: "affordances", yes, but the aim is to find how they are encoded in the brain.
Some eco. psychs. in the project would've made it radical but perhaps more interesting? Something like: doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
Happy part: the word "ecological" becomes usual in neuroscience.
Sad part: "affordances", yes, but the aim is to find how they are encoded in the brain.
Some eco. psychs. in the project would've made it radical but perhaps more interesting? Something like: doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
I should probably know this, but there's any ecological psychologist in the Toronto area (maybe Southern Ontario in general)?
April 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I should probably know this, but there's any ecological psychologist in the Toronto area (maybe Southern Ontario in general)?
What do you think is the statement most often (uncritically) repeated in cognitive science, biology, and their philosophy that is nevertheless quite obviously false?
In my opinion, it is:
"Organisms face an uncertain, ever-changing environment."
In my opinion, it is:
"Organisms face an uncertain, ever-changing environment."
April 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
What do you think is the statement most often (uncritically) repeated in cognitive science, biology, and their philosophy that is nevertheless quite obviously false?
In my opinion, it is:
"Organisms face an uncertain, ever-changing environment."
In my opinion, it is:
"Organisms face an uncertain, ever-changing environment."