Sentence examples for distal environment from inspiring English sources

Instead, he borrows JJ Gibson's notion that perception consists (not of drawing inferences but) of "picking up" information about what the distal environment "affords".

Holocene sediments from the channel systems are predominantly of hemipelagic origin and formed in a low energy, ice distal environment.

What the organism perceives (the content of its perception) is a distal environment structured in terms of the possibilities it affords for action.

In essence he suggests that no creature can properly be attributed states with genuine spatial contents unless it grasps the distal environment in a minimally objective way.

For example, perceptual psychology describes how perceptual activity transforms sensory inputs (e.g., retinal stimulations) into representations of the distal environment (e.g., perceptual representations of distal shapes, sizes, and colors).

In particular, Bermúdez (1998) appeals to the notion of a nonconceptual point of view to explain the interdependence of spatial awareness of the distal environment and awareness of one's own location within that environment at the nonconceptual level.

Therefore, our proposed framework differentiates local and distal environments as distinct fields of influence.

Moreover, proximal environments such as Home Chaos may be easier to adjust than distal environments such as SES.

Turbidity currents also transfer sediments to some ice-distal environments.

Beyond I263F, several other mutations in the distal heme environment are necessary for high aziridination activity.

The analysis of the palynological diagrams clearly indicates that the upper interval corresponds to open sea neritic sediments, deposited in more distal sedimentary environments than those of the lower interval, which were deposited in more proximal environments.