The Routledge International Handbook of Ecological Psychology

Contents
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part One. Foundations of Ecological Psychology
Chapter 1. The Reciprocity of the Organism and the Environment
Tetsushi Nonaka
Chapter 2. Agency and Attention in the Ecological Approach: a Selective Review
Jelle Bruineberg
Chapter 3. Specification and Direct Perception
Tyler J. Duffrin & Christopher C. Pagano
Chapter 4 Dynamical Systems: Capturing the Information Essential to an Ecological
Psychology
Polemnia G. Amazeen
Part Two. The Meaningful Environment
Chapter 5. Affordances
Manuel Heras-Escribano
Chapter 6. Psychological Ecology, Social Practices, and the Hierarchically Nested
Structure of the Human Habitat
Harry Heft
Chapter 7. Emotions: Centralizing affectivity in ecological thinking
Rob Withagen
Part Three. Information and Medium
Chapter 8. Ecological Optics and the Visual Control of Locomotion
Brett Fajen
Chapter 9. Specification of Affordances in the Global Array
Thomas A. Stoffregen, Bruno Mantel, & Benoît Bardy
Chapter 10. Dynamic Touch
Alen Hajnal & Jessica Dukes
Part Four. Perception and Cognition
Chapter 11. Ecologizing cognition: Remembering and Thinking as Lawful, Nested, and
Emergent Relations in an Econiche
Brandon J. Thomas, Jeffrey B. Wagman, & Arghya Kashyap
Information Classification: General
Chapter 12. Ecological Neuroscience
Vicente Raja & Luis H. Favela
Chapter 13. A World of Minds: Ecological Psychology as a Framework for Comparative
Cognition
Miguel Segundo-Ortin, Paco Calvo, & Louise Barrett
Chapter 14. Physical Intelligence: Naturalizing Agency
Benjamin DeBari & James A. Dixon
Chapter 15. Multiscale Dynamics Might be Essential to Psychology: Promises, Challenges,
and Real Possibilities
Damian G. Kelty-Stephen, David Farrokh, & Madhur Mangalam
Part Five. Action: Controlling Encounters
Chapter 16. An Ecological Approach to Interpersonal Coordination
Vitor Leandro da Silva Profeta
Chapter 17. Behavioral Dynamics of Pedestrians and Crowds
William H. Warren
Part Six. Development and Learning
Chapter 18. An Ecological Perspective on How Play and Disability Impact Motor
Adaptation Across the Lifespan
Simone V. Gill & Laura Keegan
Chapter 19. Direct Learning: Information for Learning Lawfully Emerges From the Cycle
of Perception and Action
Marijn Hafkamp & David M. Jacobs
Chapter 20. Developmental Ecological Neuroscience: Active Exploration for Increased
Perceptual Differentiation
Audrey van der Meer & Ruud van der Weel
Part Seven. Sociality and Interactions
Chapter 21. Behavioral Dynamics: Capturing Our Ability to Coordinate Our Actions with
Others
L. S. Cuijpers
Chapter 22. Social Ecological Psychology and Interpersonal Coordination
Kerry Marsh & Benjamin R. Meagher
Chapter 23. An Ecological Approach to Conversation
Alexandra Paxton & Laura K. Allen
Chapter 24. An Ecological Approach to Human Interactivity and Language
Information Classification: General
Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi
Part Eight. Applications
Chapter 25. Rehabilitation in Light of Affordances: Engagement with Ecological
Psychology to Support and Celebrate Individual’s Unique Contexts and Abilities in Rehabilitation
Sarah M. Schwab-Farrell, Karime Mescouto, Peter Stilwell, Daniela V. Vaz, Jasmie Ficke, & Paula L. Silva
Chapter 26. Performance, Learning and Expertise in Sport: An Ecological Dynamics
Rationale
Ludovic Seifert, Duarte Araújo, Chris Button, Jia Yi Chow, & Keith Davids
Chapter 27. Sensory Substitution From and Ecological Perspective
Lorena Lobo, Carlos de Paz, & David Travieso
Index

Biography

Tetsushi Nonaka is Professor at Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, Japan. His research explores how humans learn to use affordances that shape everyday life. For his work on flexible action control in the body–environment system, he received the JSPS Prize in 2017.

Miguel Segundo-Ortin is a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy  at the University of Murcia, Spain. His research focuses on the philosophy of the cognitive sciences, with a focus on embodied cognition, ecological psychology, agency, and, more recently, comparative psychology. He is associated with the Minimal Intelligence Laboratory (MINT Lab), where he investigates the cognitive capacities of plants from an empirically informed philosophical perspective.

Veronica Romero is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Colby College in Waterville, ME, USA. Her research focuses on interaction dynamics, specifically between dyads, in various situations. She is associated with the Davis institute for Artificial Intelligence at Colby College, where she completed a sabbatical fellowship in 2022-2023 during which her use of AI deepened. Her recent work is being funded through a National Science Foundation grant as part of the AI Research Institute on Interaction for AI Assistants (ARIA) between 2025 and 2030.

Jeffrey B. Wagman is a Professor of Psychology at Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA. His research focuses on perception of affordances and perception by touch. He is the recipient of the Illinois State University College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lecturer Award, the Illinois State University Outstanding University Researcher Award, and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Ecological Psychology, and an Associate Editor of the journal of Ecological Psychology