Ecological psychology

Matthieu de Wit, Luis Favela and Vicente Raja examine how neuroscience can use ecological psychology without losing its theoretical commitments. Topics include perception and action, organism–environment relations, affordances, dynamics and the challenges of explaining naturalistic neural data within a field dominated by computational and mechanistic approaches.

Vicente Raja examines how ecological psychology can inform neuroscience. The discussion connects affordances, direct perception, information and resonance with embodied approaches to brains and minds, then considers plant behaviour. He also explores how shared conceptual motifs can support research across disciplines without requiring identical definitions.