The concept of a structural affordance

Abstract

I provide an analysis of the concept of an “affordance” that enables one to conceive of “structural affordance” as a kind of affordance relation that might hold between an agent and its body. I then review research in the science of humanoid bodily movement to indicate the empirical reality of structural affordance.

Keywords

• Affordances
• Ecological Psychology
• Embodiment
• Embodied Cognition
• Motor Control