Moritz Bammel
moritz-bammel.bsky.social
Moritz Bammel
@moritz-bammel.bsky.social
PhD candidate in psychology @leuphana.bsky.social | embodied cognition, ecological psychology, dynamical systems, nonlinear methods, & philosophy of cognitive science
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Latest paper co-authored with @guicogsci.bsky.social

We argue that behavior settings and cognitive institutions complement each other and that ecological psychology will profit from integrating cognitive institutions into its conceptual toolkit.

Open access in Topoi: doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Scaling-Up Behavior Settings: An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Institutions - Topoi
Barker’s notion of “behavior settings” has been fruitfully used in Gibsonian ecological psychology to highlight the importance of place and to account for how perception–action of affordances is socio...
doi.org
We‘re hosting the next edition of the nonlinear methods workshop for psychology and social sciences at Leuphana University from March 9 - 13, 2026. Application is now open until Dec 31. Please share with anyone interested!
www.leuphana.de/institute/is...
NLM 2026: NONLINEAR METHODS FOR PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
www.leuphana.de
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Reposted by Moritz Bammel
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...
<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
Latest paper co-authored with @guicogsci.bsky.social

We argue that behavior settings and cognitive institutions complement each other and that ecological psychology will profit from integrating cognitive institutions into its conceptual toolkit.

Open access in Topoi: doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Scaling-Up Behavior Settings: An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Institutions - Topoi
Barker’s notion of “behavior settings” has been fruitfully used in Gibsonian ecological psychology to highlight the importance of place and to account for how perception–action of affordances is socio...
doi.org
August 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Reposted by Moritz Bammel
Wouter van Hooydonk worries that radical embodied cognitive science may assume that able white men's bodies are a universal representation of human bodies. He thinks RECS should reject the universalizing attitude and pay more attention to particular cases. doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Radical Embodied Cognition as Non-ideal Theory - Topoi
Philosophy of mind and cognition, radical embodied cognition not excluded, has missed the descriptive mark by abstracting away from race, gender, (dis)ability and similar social realities in understan...
doi.org
August 21, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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@moritz-bammel.bsky.social and @guicogsci.bsky.social discuss the possibility of extending radical embodiment to human social collectives. They compare two established approaches: behavior settings theory and the extended cognition notion of cognitive institutions

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Scaling-Up Behavior Settings: An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Institutions - Topoi
Barker’s notion of “behavior settings” has been fruitfully used in Gibsonian ecological psychology to highlight the importance of place and to account for how perception–action of affordances is socio...
link.springer.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Reposted by Moritz Bammel
Sarah Trasmundi discusses whether reading can be reconciled with Gibson’s account of direct perception, and whether imagination can be thought of as an extension of perception.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Exploring Reading as a Social Practice with Gibson and Goodwin - Topoi
Drawing on recent developments in ecological theory this paper develops a theoretical account of modern, alphabetic, imaginative reading grounded in ecological psychology and the philosophy of embodie...
link.springer.com
August 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Reposted by Moritz Bammel
Farewell to Dimensions of Radical Embodiment 3 at the University of Southern Denmark

Once again, this was a lot of fun!

Some photos here radicalembodiment3.github.io/gallery/

Any volunteers to host DRE4?
June 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This was a really great workshop! Thanks for organizing!

I gave a talk on: ”Comparing Aggregate versus Process Measures of Eye Movements to Assess Reading Comprehension“. Check out the conference paper for more info: escholarship.org/uc/item/10n8...
June 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I’m very happy that our abstract titled ”Ecological Psychology Meets Political Philosophy of Mind“, co-authored with @guicogsci.bsky.social, has been accepted as a talk at Dimensions of Radical Embodiment 3.

Looking forward to my trip Odense!
🚨 Call for contributions!

We are hosting Dimensions of Radical Embodiment 3 at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, June 18-21, 2025

We are accepting abstract submissions for talks, posters, and brief ideas!

Deadline: March 14, 2025

radicalembodiment3.github.io
March 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM