Dio D. Vicen
Vicente Raja; but I want to be Luffy.
Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the University of Murcia (Spain).
Associate Faculty at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy (Canada).
- Ah... I'm so invested in what we could call "non-standard approaches to cognition" that I often forget that out there in the real world we still lay comfortably in the arms of Immanuel Kant/René Descartes/pick-your-own-Modern-poison... www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- I like the idea of the book. Indeed, ecological resonance is pretty much about it. Now, unpopular opinion: ecological psychology is not a form of anti-representationalism. I say more: representations are NOT (or, at least, should NOT be) a relevant topic within the ecological approach.
- "Ecological psychology and the mirror of nature" is now open access. (by @tonychemero.bsky.social and yours truly) www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/read-...
- Reposted by Dio D. VicenJust signed a contract for a Cambridge Elements in Ecological Neuroscience! With @diovicen.bsky.social Look for it in a year or so. www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
- As an ecological psychologist, when I read: "the PBDR approach is always grounded in the physics of light transport... [...]... because it allows the identification of perceptual invariants." It actually sounds like: "we use the optic array to find perceptual invariants." I like it!
- Legit super excited about this work coming out. My amazing doctoral student @ben.graphics has been working on an idea to use physically based differentiable rendering (PBDR) to probe visual understanding. Here, we generate physically-grounded metamers for vision models. 1/4 arxiv.org/abs/2512.12307
- A little bit of spam, but this one is honestly one of my favourite papers I've participated in. I still think there's a whole dissertation to be written on this topic--ecological psychology & epistemology.
- "meaningful affordances" "bio-mechanical affordances" "mental affordances" "non-representational affordances" Please stop. Stop with the adjectives. It makes no sense. Thank you.
- I've been talking about ecological neuroscience and other topics with @braininspired.bsky.social on the Brain Inspired podcast. You can check it out here 👇 youtu.be/Aj3LyStBgpg
- Reposted by Dio D. VicenWhat is plant nutation? What is a motif in science? What lessons does ecological psychology have for neuroscience? How does Vicente @diovicen.bsky.social enjoy the band Judas Priest yet still do good philosophy and science? Here are the answers: braininspired.co/podcast/223/
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- Is ecological neuroscience a feasible enterprise? After some theoretical work on ecological resonance, we've engaged on experimental research to test some of the hypotheses that follow from it. These are the first results of (hopefully) many more to come! It's open access 👇 doi.org/10.1111/psyp...
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- "Although neuroscience has developed powerful tools for measuring brain activity, its behavioral measures are far more primitive, as it lacks a coherent conceptual framework for analyzing and interpreting behavior." True! Happy to see this idea is growing. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- It never ceases to amaze me how angry some people in mainstream cognitive science get when one talks about non-representation/non-computation while they completely refuse to at least read something about it so they can have an actual reason to be angry that is not just "hey, normal science, bro".
- @segundo-ortin.bsky.social and I were talking about ecological psychology with @thedissenteryt.bsky.social: youtu.be/s6EwRYqmP64 www.thedissenter.net
- My impression is we’ve lost this kind of thinking in contemporary neuroscience: that we need good theories of the brain and *behavior* to explain stuff. James, Lashley, Hebb, Tolman, Skinner, Gibson… They all agreed on that.
- David Lee just died. He formulated tau/time-to-contact, the most famous bit of ecological information. He is one of the main reasons why ecological psychology is still alive. We all are indebted to him. I met him once and ended up having dinner at his place. Very cool guy! RIP
- Affordances are motifs. Representations are motifs. A sentence with both words can mean anything! 😱
- No os lo vais a creer, pero en el otro lado hay un grupo de filo-bros discutiendo durante días sobre si hay ideología en la ciencia. Al quinto día empiezan a apelar a Popper. Hay que quererlos.
- I work (mostly) on ecological psychology and (often) on plant intelligence. And you can’t imagine the amount of ideological reviews I get. Really bad scholarship, if you ask me. Is this also the case for people working on more mainstream frameworks?
- The best of all left 15 years ago. #longlivedio www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RiJ...
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- This might be the best BlueSky thread to date. Don't be like Vinny.
- In an alternative universe, cog. scientists *read* eco. psych. and find out that... 1. The foundational texts of eco. psych. (Gibson 1966, 1979) don't talk about representations. 2. Affordances aren't what they think they are. 3. The core is ecological information. 4. 50 years+ of experimental work.
- I'm happy & sad. Happy part: the word "ecological" becomes usual in neuroscience. Sad part: "affordances", yes, but the aim is to find how they are encoded in the brain. Some eco. psychs. in the project would've made it radical but perhaps more interesting? Something like: doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
- We are excited to announce our new Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE)! This program will unite experts in experimental and computational #neuroscience approaches to investigate how the brain represents sensorimotor interactions. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s... #science
- I should probably know this, but there's any ecological psychologist in the Toronto area (maybe Southern Ontario in general)?
- What do you think is the statement most often (uncritically) repeated in cognitive science, biology, and their philosophy that is nevertheless quite obviously false? In my opinion, it is: "Organisms face an uncertain, ever-changing environment."
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- We just talked very briefly about causal cognition in the wild - w/ @annafinke.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- I guess Descartes ended up with the famous "cogito ergo sum" because he locked himself up to think and only think (at least from his point of view). If, instead of that, he had been running, maybe he would have ended up with "curro ergo sum", which is specially cool in Spanish.
- Beren - El Afilador (Los Suaves Cover) youtu.be/CwT32BYccKc
- The more (usually plant) biology I read, the more I see (plant) biologists treating psychologists in the same way they complain they're treated by physicists. I don't know who needs to read this, but respecting the knowledge from other fields is usually a good strategy for scientific collaboration.
- Beren - Oración Beren is just an artisan who makes or interprets music. Everything here is recorded by using one guitar, one voice, one computer, and a couple of free apps. No proper mics, no proper room, no closed door or window... Just music. Raw. Homemade. Hopeful. youtu.be/3E2CtpZybt0
- Beren - Wasted Years Beren is an artisan making and/or re-interpreting music. Everything here is recorded by using one guitar, one voice, one computer, and a couple of free apps. No proper mics, no proper room, no closed door or window... Just music. Raw. Homemade. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThsE...
- @segundo-ortin.bsky.social and I were talking about ecological psychology, the ecological handicap, teaching, and learning in the Future Learning Design Podcast. You can check the episode here: www.goodimpactlabs.com/podcast/migu...
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- Come to Denmark!
- 🚨 Call for contributions! We are hosting Dimensions of Radical Embodiment 3 at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, June 18-21, 2025 We are accepting abstract submissions for talks, posters, and brief ideas! Deadline: March 14, 2025 radicalembodiment3.github.io
- Reposted by Dio D. VicenI had the pleasure of talking to Marianne Davies for an hour about affordances and why we've all been getting them wrong www.buzzsprout.com/1975020/epis...
- This interesting thread shows the notion of representation as a motif: a relatively vague concept that shapes a relatively open-ended set of explanatory strategies. In the thread, vagueness is taken to be a problem. I think it's a strength: representations remain precisely because they are vague!
- I know it doesn't matter, but I am so confused by this idea floating around that a dynamical systems approach is somehow without representations. It is not how I nor many other computational neuroscientists I know would think of these things. www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
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- New Preprint! 🧐 We explored the ecological idea of resonance using virtual reality and Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MOBI). It was challenging both technically and in terms of data analysis, but we are quite happy with the results. Check it out! ⬇️ doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/
- This paper is the empirical manifestation of the theoretical/philosophical work I've done in the last few years, both in terms of a radical embodied neuroscience (doi.org/10.1111/ejn....) and in terms of ecological resonance (doi.org/10.1007/s112...). 2/
