Damian Kelty-Stephen
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Damian Kelty-Stephen
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Reads the mind by studying action
We may read single words with much more of our bodies than just our eyes, ears, and brains.

Or at least so says my homage to Michael Turvey in the special issue in his honor at Ecological Psychology. Thanks to invaluable support from coauthors Madhur Mangalam, Melen Guillaume, & Cedrick Bonnet
(PDF) Whole-body Multifractal Synergies Support Cognitive Visual Word Search
PDF | Michael T. Turvey viewed perceptual facility with words as a nonlinear prestress of whole-body synergies, forming a multifractal tensegrity rather... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Had a fun time talking with Jack Roycroft on his podcast
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Why Cognition Doesn't Require a Brain - Damian Kelty-Stephen
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June 19, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Reposted by Damian Kelty-Stephen
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....
April 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Reposted by Damian Kelty-Stephen
I'm pleased to share a preprint of a chapter I wrote for an upcoming book on embodied cognition. I try to tackle some thorny questions surrounding unit and scale as they relate to symbols and dynamics in cognitive science.

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(PDF) Experience, scale, and co-adaptation
PDF | While the ontological and epistemological issues surrounding the status of the mind and its relation to the body are often considered abstract... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
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April 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Does ecological psychology ❤️ fractals? Yes? No? Maybe? This chapter reviews decades of flirtation of the former with the latter--and to advocate for committing to the relationship (or for getting on with life separately!) www.researchgate.net/publication/... coauthored w/ @davidfarrokh.bsky.social
(PDF) Multiscale dynamics might be essential to ecological psychology: Promises, challenges, and real possibilities
PDF | Ecological psychology emphasizes the nesting of organisms within contexts to explain perception and action, contrasting with non-ecological... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
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April 12, 2025 at 5:18 AM