ABSTRACT
Affordance has been a centerpiece of ecological approaches to psychology. Gibson developed this concept through the 1960s and 1970s, defining an “affordance” as an “opportunity for action”. The past 50 years have been fruitful for scholarship and research on affordances. In many respects, this abundance of affordance-themed research is a ringing success. Some of the most impressive and instructive turns in the trajectory of the concept of affordance have been its appearance in neuroscientific and applied fields. Thomas discusses the importance of affordances and affordance perception in academic research but highlights the lack of a principled explanation of time and space at the ecological scale within the theory of affordances. Nonaka presents the idea that biological agents actively seek to control their interactions with the environment, aiming for beneficial encounters. Hajnal argues that while previous research has focused on identifying invariant properties that correspond to perceptual responses, less attention has been given to the details of information detection during perception.
