Nested reciprocities: the organism-environment system in perception-action and development.

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The ecological approach to studying perception and action is one in which researchers view the structure in ambient energy arrays surrounding a given organism as being sufficient to specify meaningful environmental properties to that organism. Thus, from this perspective, perception is viewed not as a cognitive achievement but as a lawful state of affairs that exists in an organism-environment system. The approach to studying development known as transactionalism is one in which researchers view the developmental process as the expression of a complex web of endogenous and exogenous factors. Thus, from this perspective, development is not an unfolding of a genetic program, but rather an ongoing exchange among levels of the organism-environment system that continues throughout the life span of the organism. Despite their independent development, these two meta-theoretical approaches have much in common. In each approach, the organism-environment system is the fundamental unit of analysis, and the development of perception and behavior is spread across the multiple levels of this system.Copyright 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Dev Psychobiol 42: 317-334, 2003.

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Author information

Author/s: Wagman, Jeffrey B (JB); Miller, David B (DB);

Affiliation: Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269-1020, USA. Jeffrey.B.Wagman(-atsign-)uconn.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

Journal: Developmental psychobiology (Dev Psychobiol), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-May; vol 42 (issue 4) : pp 317-34

Dates: Created 2003/04/02; Completed 2003/09/09; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 12672081, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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Comments and Corrections

CommentIn: Dev Psychobiol. 2003 May;42(4):335-41; discussion 362-7. (PMID: 12672082)

CommentIn: Dev Psychobiol. 2003 May;42(4):342-8; discussion 362-7. (PMID: 12672083)

CommentIn: Dev Psychobiol. 2003 May;42(4):349-56; discussion 362-7. (PMID: 12672084)

CommentIn: Dev Psychobiol. 2003 May;42(4):357-61; discussion 362-7. (PMID: 12672085)

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Animals
Brain - physiology
Cognition - physiology

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