Alen Hajnal

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Huge turnout at the #NoKings rally in Hattiesburg, Missisisppi today, wrapping up and down both sides of the streets around City Hall.

I'd estimate that about 300 people showed up, along with 2 pro-Trump counter-protesters.

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Hi Jamie: can you share the website for your R package? I can't find it. Thanks!

The effects of viewpoint, motion, and affordance priming on perceptual learning of feelies - Catherine Dowell, McKenzie Gunter, Alen Hajnal, 2025 Perceptual learning is a process of developing the skill to differentiate previously undifferentiated information. In this study participants learned to identif...

New paper alert: perceptual learning of novel objects is optimal when primed by an affordance and when observed from a typical viewpoint while moving: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Kudos to my co-authors Catherine Dowell and McKenzie Gunter! #ecologicalpsychology #affordance

Book Review: Introduction to Ecological Psychology: A Lawful Approach to Perceiving, Acting, and Cognizing by Blau, J. J. C., & Wagman, J. B. - Myah Kelly, McKenzie Gunter, Tyler Overstreet, Alen Hajn...

My students and I have published a review of Julia Blau 's and Jeffrey Wagman 's book on Ecological Psychology:
doi.org/10.1177/0301...
#ecologicalpsychology

Agree. Neuroscientific measures are clearly nonergodic.

I teach about these ideas all the time (and @applylab.bsky.social studies individual differences in vision and perception!), but this piece got me to find Daniels 1952 Air Force paper, which is a great piece of history to have here.

Added to my reading list!

Rob Gray and I have started working our way through Turvey's book 'Lecture on Perception' on his podcast; the first episode on the first two chapters is up now, more in a couple f weeks! perceptionaction.com/journal-club/

🚨Abstract submission now open for the European Workshop on Ecological Psychology, 15-18 July 2025, in Leeds UK 🚨

Abstracts: due Friday 14th March, 2025
Early Registration: by Wednesday 30 April (open shortly)

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David Lynch: "Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole."
RIP

Great conversation!

YouTube video by Love and Philosophy Why everyone is talking about 'affordances' with Harry Heft: Living at the Synapse

Why are we all talking about 'affordances' & what are they? A life given to the future and a look into the ideas of ecological psychology & the work of JJ Gibson with his student Harry Heft. Life at the synapse: youtu.be/Fi2c1tdAT3c?... #affordances #jjgibson #ecologicalpsychology #loveandphilosophy

I especially liked their recommendation : "don't worry about affordance metaphysics" - I totally agree!

Just read "The Affordance Hypothesis" by @edbaggs.bsky.social and @diovicen.bsky.social
Important paper for all students of ecological psychology - clear and concise - I loved it! Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Missed it due to time difference. Will the video be available online for later viewing?

Perception Action Cognition Lab

Stop by our posters tomorrow 12pm-1:30pm:
#2186,#2187,#2188 - all in one place!
Download them here: sites.google.com/view/paclab?...
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Save the date: the next European Workshop on Ecological Psychology will be July 15-18 2025, in Leeds UK hosted by me. Details to follow; please spread the word!