Action-specific perception
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Action-specific perception, or perception-action, is a psychological theory that people perceive their environment and events within it in terms of their ability to act.
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See also
- Active inference - a generic formulation of embodied perception based on variational (Bayesian) free energy minimisation
- Active vision - an area of computer vision and machine learning concerned with active sampling of sensory data
- Affordance
- Ecological Psychology
- James J. Gibson
- Motor cognition - the notion that cognition is embodied in action, and that the motor system participates in what is usually considered as mental processing.
- Motor theory of speech perception - the hypothesis that people perceive spoken words by identifying the vocal tract gestures with which they are pronounced rather than by identifying the sound patterns that speech generates.
- Perception
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