近年のAIの発展は、AIが生物を凌駕する領域があることを示す一方で，何が起こるかわからない動的な世界において臨機応変に機能する生物的知能の特徴をあらためて浮き彫りにすることになった。動的な環境と自在につながるこうした生物的知能の根本的理解は、ブレークスルーが必要とされる最重要課題のひとつとなっている。この問題をめぐり多分野で注目を集めるアフォーダンスと生態心理学について、各領域の第一人者たちが解説するハンドブックが本書である。

目次

• 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, & Beno?t 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 R?czaszek-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