Vicente Raja brings ecological psychology concepts to neuroscience

In this episode of “Brain Inspired,” Paul Middlebrooks is joined by Vicente Raja, a research fellow in the Minimal Intelligence Lab at the University of Murcia and external affiliate faculty of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University. Raja discusses his philosophical and scientific work assessing how concepts from ecological psychology might elucidate the brain’s role in perception and action. He and Middlebrooks also discuss how, even within a narrow research domain, different scientists use the same terms to mean slightly different things. Raja argues that this is a common feature, not a bug, in scientific progress.

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