Sentence examples for distal environments from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

On this conception there is no commitment to the view that vision is for the guidance of action, that vision constitutively has something to do with adapting animal behavior to the spatial layout of the distal environment (Noë 2004 18 199).

A condition on grasping the distal environment in this way is that the organism is capable of utilizing such states in forming and updating an integrated representation of the layout of its environment and is thus able to reidentify particular locations within it.

On day 9, a probe trial was conducted without the escape box, to confirm that this spatial task was acquired based on navigation by distal environment room cues.