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TravelPod Member ReviewsPlaza Lucchesi Hotel Florence
The Plaza Lucchesi is the perfect hotel for anyone visiting Florence. The front of the hotel faces the Arno River, the back of it overlooks Giotto's Bell Tower and the Duomo. We were blessed enough to be given a room on the fourth floor, overlooking Giotto's Bell Tower and the Duomo. The view was so fantastic, that it looked as if you could reach off of our balcony and touch the dome of the Duomo or the peak of Giotto's Bell Tower.
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Historical Traveler Reviews Plaza Lucchesi Hotel Florence
Wonderful hotel
We stayed at the Palza Lucchesi Hotel in Florence , it was wonderful , full of grace , very stylish italian, right on the river banks of the Arno river ,a few steps from the Fabled Ponte Vecchio . From your room you have some exquisite views oft eh city of Florence . A true enchantment . You may see this hotel at a website called ...
An excellent hotel and staff
I stayed in Plaza Hotel Lucchesi twice in 2002. I spent five days there in July, and enjoyed it so much I returned to Florence for a second five day (arty) visit in October! It is worth paying extra for a superior room - my view on the second occasion was over the Santa Croce Church and towards the Duomo - a fantastic view. Hotel location is excellent, beside the Arno, but it is a little further from the Santa Maria Novella Station if you are travelling. Hotel staff are very nice people - Eg : during an 8hr transportation strike on my day of departure, they were able to help with alternative travel arrangement as all trains to Pisa airport were off! They can also book dinner for you, or arrange side trips or visits to the Uffizi or Accademia. Have a good holiday In Florence!
Nice View....
View from room was great (overlooking the arno river). The room was just OK...for a 4 star hotel. I tend to judge a hotel by it's cleanliness and the lobby of this hotel really smells of smoke. The staff was very good, the breakfast was very good.
Room with a view
I recently stayed three delightful days at the Hotel Plaza Lucchesi. My "superior" single room was spacious and beautifully decorated, but best of all was the private terrace with a splendid view over the rooftops of Florence. I had the advantage of a promotional rate which made the hotel a very good value. The staff were courteous, helpful, and attentive. Indeed, this was one of my best experiences in many years of travel. Highly recommended!
Great value for a true 4 star
Stayed in the Plaza Lucchesi for 4 nights in March 2003. This was an excellent 4 star hotel with very large rooms (both of ours overlooked the river). Staff was very helpful. Paid less than 190 Euros per room per night, which was comparable to much less luxurious 3 star hotels in Rome and Venice on the same trip. Definitely recommend this hotel, especially at a price like we paid.
Wonderful staff and location
We spent 4 nights here in March, with our 3 children. Our two rooms connected and were excellant for what we needed. Beds were perfectly fine. rooms were beautiful, clean and larger than we expected. We had a wonderful view of river, and yes, we heard the traffic, but only when we left our windows open, and not so much that we couldnt sleep with them open. The staff was incredibly friendly, helpful and attentive. Nearby recommended restaurants were wonderful. The location was great, easily able to walk to sights. Breakfast good. We would love to stay here again.
Excellent experience
We spent three nights at the Plaza Lucchesi in February. Perhaps because of fewer travelers due to the war scare or perhaps because we e-mailed ahead of time asking that our bathroom have a tub, we were upgraded to a wonderful two-level suite for our 199 euro charge. It had a half bath downstairs and a full bath with tub in the upstairs bedroom. It also had a wonderful view overlooking the Arno. (The view does come with the annoyance of traffic noise from the motorini. However, the double-glazed windows minimized the noise except when we opened them to let in some cool air.) Unlike one of the previous reviewers, our room was clean and well kept and the bed was fine. We also were satisfied with the breakfast (although we could do without the Italian practice of sweetening croissants). One reason was that we discovered that, although not on the buffet, we could have eggs and bacon simply by asking for them. The desk clerk whose name I think was Roberta recommended three different restaurants close by, all of which were excellent. All in all, a pleasant hotel.
Awesome Location, Great Staff
We spent five nights at the Hotel Plaza Lucchesi (2/19/03 - 2/24/03) and had a terrific time. The Hotel staff was terrific (especially the night concierge, Michael). The single best reason for staying is to get a lovely room right on the River Arno, overlooking the Piazza Michelangelo, San Miniato on the Hill, Fort Belvedere, and the Porto San Niccolo. When we "threw open the shutters and windows" on the afternoon of our arrival, we just looked at each other and grinned! We KNEW we were in Florence--no doubt about it. Beautiful views of all of the above--incredible sunrises and sunsets on the river and hills, warm, sunny southern location. While on the eastern "outskirts" of traditional tourist areas, the hotel was very close to everything. The furthest we had to walk was about 20-30 minutes at a leisurely pace to get to Santa Maria Novella. Now, that is about ALL that made this hotel great. The complimentary breakfast was at best uninspired and mediocre. The coffee was horrid (a sin in Italy). The bed was in terrible condition, sagged every way a bed could sag. Linens smelled odd, and room was so smoky (non-smoking room doesn't mean much in the smokestack environment of Italy) that my asthma was going beserk. We could barely breathe and had to sleep with window open and heat blasting (it was quite cold at night) to make it through the evening. Showers were designed by a moron--there is only a small partial door across the tub, so whenever you shower, the bathroom was flooded (no kidding). Bathroom had adequate amenities (hairdryer, toilet, bidet, tub/shower). Rooms have NO soundproofing. We heard everything that everyone next to us and above us did--and I truly mean everything (using the bathroom, bathing, opening doors, drawers, windows, etc.). Had we not been so exhausted and come with a terrific supply of sleeping pills from my doctor who had been there before, we would have been completely unable to handle the smoke and noise.Would we stay at Lucchesi again--very likely. We saw very few reasonably priced hotels (and we got our rooms at the Lucchesi for a terrific $120/night through a great tour packager) with better environment and location. We would probably pack a small fan next time (to suck smoke out of room and into the night) and would have to have the ear plugs and sleeping pills again.
This Place is Great
I recommend this place. It doesn't appear in any of the guidebooks I bought but a travel agent recommended this place. I would categorize it as a 4+ star. It cost about 220 Euros (double room) in early January. It's well worth it. Our travel agent gave us a good deal and we got our 5th night free so our ave cost was much less.
The rooms are clean and large. We were lucky enough to get a terrace overlooking the Arno river. Very romantic.
The staff is very friendly and helpful.
The free breakfast was very mediocre but we didn't eat much since we were saving our appetites for the wonderful lunches and dinners we had in Florence (check out Il Pizzaleou for the best pizza)
Overpriced and Obnoxious concierge
I stayed in Plaza Hotel Lucchesi with my family 08/21/02-8/25/02 Suite room was beautiful, clean and good location, breakfast okay.
Front desk woman - Barbara was exceptally sweet, smiley and helpful, however a guy -a day time concierge was oppisite -Obnoxious and with constantly frown face. On my departure he completely spolied our stay, he stopped bellboy from loading our lugguge in taxi and send him to check if we did not steel $1 electicity adapter, which he brought down to him. Paying $400 a night I thought his behavor was rude and outragesly impolite. Next time i would not stay at this hotel for this money.
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Affordances can invite behavior: Reconsidering the relationship between affordances and agencyRob Withagen | Harjo J. de Poel | Duarte Araújo | Gert Jan Pepping
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The concept of agency has been central to ecological approaches to psychology. Gibson, one of the founders of this movement, made room for this concept by arguing against the mechanistic conceptions in psychology. In his view, the environment is not a collection of causes that pushes the animal around, but consist of action possibilities, which he coined affordances. In making their way in the world, animals regulate their behavior with respect to these possibilities. Reed later developed this ecological conception of agency, following Gibson in conceiving of affordances as action possibilities. However, drawing upon industrial design, architecture, and phenomenology, we argue that affordances are not mere action possibilities but that they can also invite behavior. We suggest a mutualist perspective on invitations, suggesting that they depend on the animal-environment relationship in multiple dimensions. The implications of this new conception of affordances for the ecological account of agency are explored. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Nonlinear pedagogy: Learning design for self-organizing neurobiological systemsJia Yi Chow | Keith Davids | Robert Hristovski | Duarte Araújo | Pedro Passos
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In this paper, key concepts in ecological psychology and nonlinear dynamics exemplify how learning design can be shaped by ideas of self-organization, meta-stability and self-organized criticality in complex neurobiological systems. Through interactions with specific ecological constraints in learning environments, cognition, decision making and action emerge. An important design strategy is the use of different types of noise to channel the learning process into meta-stable regions of the " learner-learning environment" system to encourage adaptive behaviors. Here learners can be exposed to many functional and creative performance solutions during training. Data from studies in the performance context of sports are used to illustrate how these theoretical ideas can underpin learning design. Based on these insights a nonlinear pedagogy is proposed in which the role of coaches or trainers alters from a more traditional, prescriptive stance to the mode of manipulating key interacting task constraints including information, space and equipment to facilitate learning. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
From intention to action: The role of presenceGiuseppe Riva | John A. Waterworth | Eva L. Waterworth | Fabrizia Mantovani
Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 24-37
Recent research in neuroscience has tried to understand human action from two different but converging perspectives: the cognitive and the volitional. On one side, cognitive studies analyze how action is planned and controlled in response to environmental conditions. On the other side, volitional studies analyze how action is planned and controlled by a subject's needs, motives and goals. In this paper we suggest that the notion of presence may be the missing link between these two approaches, explaining how can we differentiate between perception, action and concepts.In particular, a consideration of presence can explain how can we distinguish between a perceived action, a planned or an executed one. We argue that the evolutionary role of presence is the control of agency through the unconscious separation of " internal" and " external" and the enaction/reenaction of intentions.The model makes sense in terms of evolutionary psychology and is beginning to be supported by evidence of the neural and other physical correlates of action, imitation and self-monitoring. Another strength of this model is that it provides testable predictions about how to improve the experience of presence in media: maximal presence in a mediated experience arises from an optimal combination of form and content, able to support the intentions of the user. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd.
Dialog as interpersonal synergyRiccardo Fusaroli | Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi | Kristian Tylén
Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 147-157
What is the proper unit of analysis in the psycholinguistics of dialog? While classical approaches are largely based on models of individual linguistic processing, recent advances stress the social coordinative nature of dialog. In the influential interactive alignment model, dialogue is thus approached as the progressive entrainment of interlocutors' linguistic behaviors toward the alignment of situation models. Still, the driving mechanisms are attributed to individual cognition in the form of automatic structural priming. Challenging these ideas, we outline a dynamical framework for studying dialog based on the notion of interpersonal synergy. Crucial to this synergetic model is the emphasis on dialog as an emergent, self-organizing, interpersonal system capable of functional coordination. A consequence of this model is that linguistic processes cannot be reduced to the workings of individual cognitive systems but must be approached also at the interpersonal level. From the synergy model follows a number of new predictions: beyond simple synchrony, good dialog affords complementary dynamics, constrained by contextual sensitivity and functional specificity. We substantiate our arguments by reference to recent empirical studies supporting the idea of dialog as interpersonal synergy. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Deconstructing the construct: A network perspective on psychological phenomenaVerena D. Schmittmann | Angélique O J Cramer | Lourens J. Waldorp | Sacha Epskamp | Rogier A. Kievit | Denny Borsboom
Volume 31, Issue 1, April 2013, Pages 43-53
In psychological measurement, two interpretations of measurement systems have been developed: the reflective interpretation, in which the measured attribute is conceptualized as the common cause of the observables, and the formative interpretation, in which the measured attribute is seen as the common effect of the observables. We advocate a third interpretation, in which attributes are conceptualized as systems of causally coupled (observable) variables. In such a view, a construct like 'depression' is not seen as a latent variable that underlies symptoms like 'lack of sleep' or 'fatigue', and neither as a composite constructed out of these symptoms, but as a system of causal relations between the symptoms themselves (e.g., lack of sleep → fatigue, etc.). We discuss methodological strategies to investigate such systems as well as theoretical consequences that bear on the question in which sense such a construct could be interpreted as real. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Multiple aspects in the sense of agency1Shaun Gallagher
Volume 30, Issue 1, April 2012, Pages 15-31
Recent significant research in a number of disciplines centers on the concept of the sense of agency. Because many of these studies cut across disciplinary lines there is good reason to seek a clear consensus on what sense of agency' means. In this paper I indicate some complexities that this consensus might have to deal with. I also highlight an important phenomenological distinction that needs to be considered in any discussion of the sense of agency, regardless of how it gets defined. Finally, I suggest that the sense of agency has an ambiguous phenomenology and I offer some critical comments on current models that fail to notice this ambiguity. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
A model of art perception, evaluation and emotion in transformative aesthetic experienceMatthew Pelowski | Fuminori Akiba
Volume 29, Issue 2, August 2011, Pages 80-97
While accounts of " aesthetic" experience inspire art study and drive its cognitive goals the current modeling of art perception, based on the analytic tradition emphasizing successful assimilation of art information, is unable to truly address this phenomenon, leaving us without means of accounting for disruption and fundamental change-either perceptual or self-referential-as well as epiphany and insight, within the experience of art; and no means of addressing 'art's ability to mark and change lives. To address this, we introduce a five-stage model of art-perception, organized around initial disruption and subsequent meta-cognitive reflection and self-transformation, which allows for this needed discussion of perceptual and conceptual change, and a connection of art-viewing to viewer personality. Based on this, we consider belletristic accounts of aesthetic experience, and discuss the inter-relation of emotional, cognitive and appraisal factors that may be important for objective research. © 2010.
Position exchange: The social development of agencyAlex Gillespie
Volume 30, Issue 1, April 2012, Pages 32-46
Human agency can be defined in terms of acting independently of the immediate situation. Humans have a considerable independence from immediate situational demands because, on the one hand, they are able to distanciate from ongoing activity and reflect upon it, while on the other hand, they are able to identify with other people in different situations. It is argued that this form of agency arises through intersubjectivity because intersubjectivity enables the actor to take a perspective outside of the immediate situation and thus extricating the actor from the immediate situation. The paper contributes to the question of how intersubjectivity, as the basis of agency, develops. Explanations from phenomenology, child development and mirror neuron research are critically reviewed and the novel idea of position exchange is advanced. The paper concludes by examining some of the implications of position exchange for our understanding of the development of agency focusing upon mirror neurons, role play and autism. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
Action simulation in the human brain: Twelve questionsGiovanni Pezzulo | Matteo Candidi | Haris Dindo | Laura Barca
Volume 31, Issue 3, December 2013, Pages 270-290
Although the idea of action simulation is nowadays popular in cognitive science, neuroscience and robotics, many aspects of the simulative processes remain unclear from empirical, computational, and neural perspectives. In the first part of the article, we provide a critical review and assessment of action simulation theories advanced so far in the wider literature of embodied and motor cognition. We focus our analysis on twelve key questions, and discuss them in the context of human and (occasionally) primate studies. In the second part of the article, we describe an integrative neuro-computational account of action simulation, which links the neural substrate (as revealed in neuroimaging studies of action simulation) to the components of a computational architecture that includes internal modeling, action monitoring and inhibition mechanisms. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Affect, unconscious and sensemaking. A psychodynamic, semiotic and dialogic modelSergio Salvatore | Maria Francesca Freda
Volume 29, Issue 2, August 2011, Pages 119-135
The work presents a psychodynamic, semiotic and dialogical model of affect and of the role it plays in sensemaking. The model is based on the following three general assumptions.A) Affective semiosis works in accordance to the dynamic unconscious which Freud conceptualized in terms of primary process. According to this interpretation, the unconscious is the mind's homogenising way of functioning, which transforms every categorical relation into a relation of identity. B) Affect is the generalized, homogenising and absolutizing embodied basic intersubjective meanings according to which experience is interpreted. C) Affective semiosis performs both the grounding and regulative functions in sensemaking, orienting the way people interpret experience. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
A case for applying an abstracted quantum formalism to cognitionDiederik Aerts | Jan Broekaert | Liane Gabora
Volume 29, Issue 2, August 2011, Pages 136-146
The contextual nature of experience suggests that in order to formally model it we should look to the domain of science where contextuality has been most seriously addressed: quantum mechanics. As in quantum mechanics, conscious experience consists of segments that are not contextual and do not involve resolution of ambiguity or decision, which can be modeled as dynamic evolution, and segments that are context-dependent and involve a decision or the resolution of ambiguity, which can be modeled as collapse events. An abstracted quantum mechanical representation of the entity-context interaction, with its creation of new states, is adapted to describe the process by which situations are contextualized. We show that Bell inequalities-the definitive test for quantum structure-are violated in the relationship between an abstract concept and instances of that concept. We summarize work on a theory of concepts that focuses on how the potentiality of a concept gets actualized through interaction with a context, and how the mathematics of entanglement can be applied to concept combination. A full quantum model is presented for the description of (1) contextually elicited opinions (as in an opinion-poll situation), and (2) the alternating changes of cognitive state in the Liar Paradox. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
Using Dynamic Field Theory to extend the embodiment stance toward higher cognitionYulia Sandamirskaya | Stephan K U Zibner | Sebastian Schneegans | Gregor Schöner
Volume 31, Issue 3, December 2013, Pages 322-339
The embodiment stance emphasizes that cognitive processes unfold continuously in time, are constantly linked to the sensory and motor surfaces, and adapt through learning and development. Dynamic Field Theory (DFT) is a neurally based set of concepts that has turned out to be useful for understanding how cognition emerges in an embodied and situated system. We explore how the embodiment stance may be extended beyond those forms of cognition that are closest to sensorimotor processes. The core elements of DFT are dynamic neural fields (DNFs), patterns of activation defined over different kinds of spaces. These may include retinal space and visual feature spaces, spaces spanned by movement parameters such as movement direction and amplitude, or abstract spaces like the ordinal axis along which sequences unfold. Instances of representation that stand for perceptual objects, motor plans, or action intentions are peaks of activation in the DNFs. We show how such peaks may arise from input and are stabilized by intra-field interaction. Given a neural mechanism for instantiation, the neuronal couplings between DNFs implement cognitive operations. We illustrate how these mechanisms can be used to enable architectures of dynamic neural fields to perform cognitive functions such as acquiring and updating scene representations, using grounded spatial language, and generating sequences of actions. Implementing these DFT models in autonomous robots demonstrates how these cognitive functions can be enacted in embodied, situated systems. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
The body and language: M. M. Bakhtin on ontogenetic developmentJames Cresswell | Ulrich Teucher
Volume 29, Issue 2, August 2011, Pages 106-118
James Wertsch has been influential in prompting a cultural turn in developmental psychology. Drawing upon the Russian philologist M. M. Bakhtin, Wertsch advocates a sociocultural approach involving the claim that agents' development and action are mediated by social systems of signs and symbols. We seek to improve upon Wertsch's understanding of agency by revisiting Bakhtin and the sociocultural quality of embodied action inherent in the phenomenology addressed in Bakhtin's early work. In particular, this paper takes issue with the notion of mediation because it implies an approach to language that neglects the phenomenological immediacy of experience that is central to embodied action. This paper uses the early work of Bakhtin as a lens by which an idea that occurs in Bakhtin's later work - speech genres - can be reinterpreted. Doing so enables us to propose how it is possible to have a sociocultural theory of individual ontogenetic development that includes the phenomenological immediacy of experience. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
Exploring the nature of cognitive flexibilityThea Ionescu
Volume 30, Issue 2, August 2012, Pages 190-200
Cognitive flexibility is an important characteristic that helps humans pursue complex tasks, such as multitasking and finding novel, adaptable solutions to changing demands. Yet it is still a poorly understood construct. After briefly reviewing several investigations of this construct in cognitive science, I propose a unified account that considers cognitive flexibility a property of the cognitive system, rather than a cognitive skill. The emergence of cognitive flexibility is dependent on two kinds of interactions: the interaction of several cognitive mechanisms, and the interaction of sensorimotor mechanisms, cognition, and context in developmental time. The quest for a comprehensive and unified account of cognitive flexibility is highly justified given its potential usefulness in fostering efficient problem solving and creativity. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Dialogue in joint activity: Complementarity, convergence and conventionalizationGregory J. Mills
Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 158-173
Dialogue is tightly interwoven within everyday joint activities that require moment-by-moment coordination of utterances and actions. A common account of coordination is that it is established via progressive convergence (alignment, entrainment, similarity) of interlocutors' representations and behaviour. In order to examine how coordination is established and sustained, this paper distinguishes between (1) Semantic coordination of referring expressions (2) Procedural coordination of the timing and sequencing of contributions. Drawing on data from a series of maze experiments, this paper shows how both kinds of coordination result in the rapid development of highly elliptical, systematized and normative conventions. Focussing on how these conventions are established, this paper shows how interlocutors exploit partial repetition as an interactive resource, resulting in interlocutors' turns becoming progressively divergent and complementary. Further, this paper develops the claim that since repetition is best conceived as a special case of complementarity, it cannot be the general explanation of coordination. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Position Exchange Theory: A socio-material basis for discursive and psychological positioningAlex Gillespie | Jack Martin
Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 73-89
Dialogicality within discourse and the self has been widely observed and analyzed. But how does this dialogicality develop and change? And how is it related to society? We argue that people moving within their societies, specifically moving between social positions, which are institutionally sanctioned roles with situational demands, provides a social and material basis for dialogicality. Each social position sustains a psychological perspective, and thus people moving into a social position are stepping into the associated psychological perspective in a fundamentally embodied way. As people move between roles and situations in society they accumulate psychological orientations, and this, we argue, is the basis for the dialogical tensions within the self, discursive positioning, and also humans' abilities to orient to one another and empathize. We review literature on play, games, education, problem-solving, and life trajectories to demonstrate that exchanging social positions is an important developmental principle operating across the lifespan. © 2013.
The brainweb of cross-scale interactionsMichel Le Van Quyen
Volume 29, Issue 2, August 2011, Pages 57-63
From neuron to behaviour, the nervous system operates on many levels of organization, each with its own scales of time and space. Very large sets of data can now be obtained from these multiple levels by the explosive growth of new physiological recording techniques and functional neuroimaging. Among the most difficult tasks are those of conceiving and describing the exchanges between levels, seeing that the scales of time and distance are braided together in a complex web of interactions, and that causal inference is far more ambiguous between than within levels. In this paper, I propose that a generic description of these multi-level interactions can be based on the temporal coordination of neuronal oscillations that operate at multiple frequencies and on different spatial scales. Specifically, the amplitude of the oscillations at each characteristic frequency is modulated by cyclical variations in neuronal excitability induced by lower frequency oscillations and emerging simultaneously on a larger spatial scale. Following this general rule, global patterns of integration can produce downward effects, occasionally acting on and constraining the local level of cell assemblies, whose activity can thus be taken as a signature of the downward influence. This cross-scale framework is firmly rooted in neurophysiology and as such is entirely amenable to experimental testing. © 2010.
Constructs, inferences, and mental measurementJoel Michell
Volume 31, Issue 1, April 2013, Pages 13-21
The 'construct' concept occupies a significant place in psychology and, yet its role is misunderstood. Psychologists think that theorising in the area of psychological testing involves conjuring constructs, which are operationally defined and measured via psychometric tests. However, the 'construct' concept is unworkable and laden with confused philosophical baggage accrued under the hegemony of logical empiricism, and its real function in psychology is obscured. Via an analysis of its history and logic, I expose its flawed conception of the relation between theoretical and observable concepts and the way in which it serves the myth of mental measurement. Finally, it is shown how the actual logic of theorising in science, which entails that theories are best inferred from relevant phenomena, not imaginatively constructed, oppugns this myth and promises to coordinate theoretical concepts with the phenomena to be explained. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
The concept of egocentrism in the context of Piaget's theoryThomas Kesselring | Ulrich Müller
Volume 29, Issue 3, December 2011, Pages 327-345
In this paper, we trace the origin and development of the concept of egocentrism in Piaget's work. We evaluate a number of criticisms that have been leveled against the concept of egocentrism. Based on our evaluation, we propose a reconceptualization of the concept of egocentrism as a decentering process with different phases that is recapitulated at different stages of development. We provide examples of the decentering process for the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete-operational, and formal operational stages. Piaget introduced the concept of egocentrism in his early writings in the 1920s to describe general characteristics of the preschool child. Since its introduction, the concept of egocentrism has received considerable theoretical and empirical attention and has drawn numerous criticisms. Piaget attributed these criticisms to serious misunderstandings of the concept of egocentrism. Indeed, Piaget (1945/1962, p. 285, fn) admitted that the choice of the term egocentrism was " unfortunate" , and he apologized (Piaget & Inhelder, 1948/1967, p. 220) for having dwelt on this expression for the last twenty-five years.In this paper, we trace the origins of the concept of egocentrism in Piaget's writings and examine the subsequent changes to this concept. We examine some of the criticisms leveled against the concept of egocentrism and conclude that the concept of egocentrism remained ambiguous in Piaget's writings. Finally, we suggest a revision of the concept of egocentrism that addresses these ambiguities. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
Towards a Vygotskyan cognitive robotics: The role of language as a cognitive toolMarco Mirolli | Domenico Parisi
Volume 29, Issue 3, December 2011, Pages 298-311
Cognitive Robotics can be defined as the study of cognitive phenomena by their modeling in physical artifacts such as robots. This is a very lively and fascinating field which has already given fundamental contributions to our understanding of natural cognition. Nonetheless, robotics has to date addressed mainly very basic, low-level cognitive phenomena like sensory-motor coordination, perception, and navigation, and it is not clear how the current approach might scale up to explain high-level human cognition. In this paper we argue that a promising way to do that is to merge current ideas and methods of 'embodied cognition' with the Russian tradition of theoretical psychology which views language not only as a communication system but also as a cognitive tool, that is by developing a Vygotskyan cognitive robotics. We substantiate this idea by discussing several domains in which language can improve basic cognitive abilities and permit the development of high-level cognition: learning, categorization, abstraction, memory, voluntary control, and mental life. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd.
Limitations of distal effect anticipation when using toolsChristine Sutter | Sandra Sülzenbrück | Martina Rieger | Jochen Müsseler
Volume 31, Issue 3, December 2013, Pages 247-257
Modern technologies progressively create workplaces in which the execution of movements and the observation of their consequences are spatially separated. Challenging workplaces in which users act via technical equipment in a distant space include aviation, applied medical engineering and virtual reality. When using a tool, proprioceptive/tactile feedback from the moving hand (proximal action effect) and visual feedback from the moving effect point of the tool, such as the moving cursor on a display (the distal action effect) often do not correspond or are even in conflict. If proximal and distal feedback were equally important for controlling actions with tools, this discrepancy would be a constant source of interference. The human information processing system solves this problem by favoring the intended distal action effects while attenuating or ignoring proximal action effects. The study presents an overview of experiments aiming at the underlying motor and cognitive processes and the limitations of visual predominance in tool actions. The main findings are, that when transformations are in effect the awareness of one's own actions is quite low. This seems to be advantageous when using tools, as it allows for wide range of flexible sensorimotor adaptations and - may be more important - it evokes the feeling of being in control. Thus, the attenuation of perceiving one's own proximal action effects is an important precondition for using tools successfully. However, the ability to integrate discordant perception-action feedback has limits, especially, but not only, with complex transformations. When feature overlap between vision and proprioception is low, and when the existence of a transformation is obvious proximal action effects come to the fore and dominate action control in tool actions. In conclusion action-effect control plays an important role in understanding the constraints of the acquisition and application of tool transformations. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
The basis of shared intentions in human and robot cognitionPeter Ford Dominey | Felix Warneken
Volume 29, Issue 3, December 2011, Pages 260-274
There is a fundamental difference between robots that are equipped with sensory, motor and cognitive capabilities, vs. simulations or non-embodied cognitive systems. Via their perceptual and motor capabilities, these robotic systems can interact with humans in an increasingly more " natural" way, physically interacting with shared objects in cooperative action settings. Indeed, such cognitive robotic systems provide a unique opportunity to developmental psychologists for implementing their theories and testing their hypotheses on systems that are becoming increasingly " at home" in the sensory--motor and social worlds, where such hypotheses are relevant. The current research is the result of interaction between research in computational neuroscience and robotics on the one hand, and developmental psychology on the other. One of the key findings in the developmental psychology context is that with respect to other primates, humans appear to have a unique ability and motivation to share goals and intentions with others. This ability is expressed in cooperative behavior very early in life, and appears to be the basis for subsequent development of social cognition. Here we attempt to identify a set of core functional elements of cooperative behavior and the corresponding shared intentional representations. We then begin to specify how these capabilities can be implemented in a robotic system, the Cooperator, and tested in human-robot interaction experiments. Based on the results of these experiments we discuss the mutual benefit for both fields of the interaction between robotics and developmental psychology. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd.
A social-cognitive framework for understanding serious lies: Activation-decision-construction-action theoryJeffrey J. Walczyk | Laura L. Harris | Terri K. Duck | Devyani Mulay
Volume 34, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 22-36
Little is known about the cognition of deception ( Gombos, 2006). We propose a cognitive account of serious lying (i.e., deception involving high stakes) in response to a solicitation of a truth: Activation-Decision-Construction-Action Theory (ADCAT). Built on the Activation-Decision-Construction Model of answering questions deceptively ( Walczyk, Roper, Seeman, & Humphrey, 2003), the theory elaborates on the roles of executive processes, theory of mind, emotions, motivation, specifies cognitive processing thoroughly, and considers the rehearsal of lies. ADCAT's four processing components are (a) activation of the truth, the (b) decision whether and how to alter deceptively the information shared, (c) construction of a deception, and (d) action [acting sincere while delivering a lie]. Core constructs are "theory of mind" and "cognitive resources". Specifically, throughout serious deception, individuals are inferring the current or potential mental states of targets and taking steps to minimize the allocation of cognitive resources during delivery to appear honest and lie well. © 2014 The Authors.
Representation and learning in motor action - Bridges between experimental research and cognitive roboticsThomas Schack | Helge Ritter
Volume 31, Issue 3, December 2013, Pages 258-269
To gain a better understanding of the functionality of representation and categorization in action and interaction, it is fundamental that researchers understand how movements are represented in long-term memory. It is our position that human motor control requires that our actions be planned and represented in terms of intended perceptual effects and future task demands, and that the individual has a well-structured mental representation of the task so that the movement can be carried out successfully. Basic Action Concepts (BACs) are identified as major building blocks of cognitive representation in long-term memory, which are cognitive tools used to master the functional demands of movement tasks. In this paper, we consider relevant issues in research methodology and present an experimental method that can be used to assess action-relevant representational structures. This method permits us to observe the strong relationship between cognitive representation and performance in manual action. For example, the specific differences in the mental representations of participants are strongly related to skill level, as well as biomechanical and task constraints. We then discuss results from our learning experiments, where we have examined the development and changes in cognitive representation over time. From these experiments we have found that cognitive reference structures include task-specific spatial information, which provides the basis for action control in skilled voluntary movement. We have implemented these results on various robotic platforms. We argue that the insights gained from various experimental approaches in the field of cognitive psychology and motor control enable researchers to explore the possibilities and limitations of artificial control architectures in robot systems. Finally, we argue that this is not a unidirectional process. Researchers from the field of cognitive psychology and motor control can profit from the advances in technological systems, which enhance the understanding of human motor control in skilled voluntary action. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Personhood: An activist project of historical becoming through collaborative pursuits of social transformationAnna Stetsenko
Volume 30, Issue 1, April 2012, Pages 144-153
The goal of this paper is to contribute to recent scholarship that pursues radical revision of prevalent models of personhood mired in outdated notions of human development and its foundational principles. To achieve this goal, I revisit and expand Vygotsky's project of cultural historical psychology to offer a dialectical framework that encompasses but is not limited to relational ontology. Premised on the notion of collaborative transformative practice as the grounding for human Being and Becoming,. 11The interrelated concepts of Being and Becoming are employed in the following sense. Being stands for ontological existence (in the sense of "Being in the world") whereas Becoming is a type of Being that implies (a) pathways of constant transformations in the states of Being (in contradistinction with the concept of development that combines periods of change with periods of relative stability), wherein (b) transformations pertain to changes in the states of "Being someone," that is, in the states of Being a certain type of a person vis-à-vis one's social world (in contradistinction with concepts such as change that can refer to states at subpersonal levels of existence), and conveying (c) active nature of this process in the sense that it stands for what the person does or accomplishes through one's own pursuits (in contradistinction with the concept of growth as a process that an individual undergoes or that happens to an individual). Thus, the concept of Becoming conveys the sense of ontological existence as a path of a continuous, ceaseless, and dynamic moment-to-moment transformation in one's standing and relations vis-à-vis the social world carried through one's own active pursuits whereby a person is constantly changed yet without positing any ontological breaks with the previous states of Being. my proposal is that at the core of human nature and development lies an ineluctably activist stance vis-à-vis the world; it is the realization of this stance through answerable deeds composing one unified life project that forms the path to personhood. The ethical dimension appears as foundational to Being and Becoming because it is integral to actions through which we become who we are while changing the world in collaborative pursuits of social transformation. From an activist transformative stance persons are agents not only for whom "things matter" but who themselves matter in history, culture, and society and, moreover, who come into Being as unique individuals through and to the extent that they matter in these processes and make a contribution to them. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd.


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Somewhat agree the hunter in the story acted out of step with good hunting practices. Regardless, I don't see criminal mischief, or any intent to harm anyone. What he saw was a deer and a strand of trees beyond the deer. He did not see a highway, or a school bus. Amazing the bullet did not wedge in a tree. That sort of bad luck probably hasn't happened to him before and unlikely would happen again. There are hunters all over our neighborhood in densely populated forest. Haven't had something like in the story happen the dozen plus years I've lived in this area. Something else may be going on, since the hunter has been fully cooperative, even turned himself in. Is it illegal to hunt on his property? Is it an election year in that area? Is a prosecutor attempting to move up the ladder of political success? Would like to know what is different here? Glad no one was hurt -- gives time to the hunter to correct his hunting practices without a lynching involved.
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This is going to be an interesting fight card to say the least.
This event starts in a matter of minutes, main card on MTV2 but the prelims first right here:
Oh, when Bellator will be on Spike.
The main event was probably one of the more boring fights, didn't really agree with the decision either. It was close though.
Here's the results if somebody missed it or they would rather read than watch, heh:
Bellator's LHW division must be pretty rotten if a journeyman like Wiuff can beat its reigning champion.
Something tells me that Wiuff is going to be back in the next lightheavyweight tournament. Isn't this the first time that a champion has lost in a superfight? Anyways, I'm glad to see that Efrain is back into the winning collum.
How come Christian M'Pumbu's champion belt wasn't on the line? How come in Bellator sometimes champions fight in non-title bout?
In UFC, champions only fight in champion fights other than if a champion is fighting out of his weight class, like when Anderson Silva fight at 205 against James Irvin and Forrest Griffin. Why is Bellator different?
I don't agree with the whole "title not on the line" thing.
Bellators champ loses and keeps the title? That's a worthless belt. Travis Wiuff can really capitolize with the media on that one.
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