Exploring 'the affordance hypothesis' with Ed Baggs. What are affordances and are they different for non-human animals?

About this episode

Ed Baggs discusses his research on affordances and their implications for understanding animal behavior.

Ed Baggs, assistant professor at the University of Southern Denmark, joins me for a conversation about his research on affordances. I invited Ed to join me after reading his latest (preprint) paper ‘The Affordance Hypothesis. In this paper Ed and his co-author Vicente Raja delve into affordance research, using examples like an African fish eagle hunting bee-eaters to illustrate direct perception. Ed discusses his journey from traditional cognitive science to exploring affordances in lan...

People in this episode

Host: Marianne Davies

Guest: Ed Baggs

Topics covered

• affordance hypothesis
• cognitive science
• animal behavior
• direct perception
• research

Keywords

• affordances
• cognitive science
• animal behavior
• direct perception
• research

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Southern Denmark

Books & works: The Affordance Hypothesis

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