Lens Model for Analysing Perception-Action-Coupling in Dynamical Environments: Brunswikian Research in Brunswick
Christoph P. Mohlenbrink, Meike Jipp · elib (German Aerospace Center) · 2010
In this annual Brunswik Newsletter, the 25 th we remember Lenard I. Dalgleish and his outstanding work largely formed by Egon Brunswik's theories and conceptual contribution to psychological research.Among the contributions to this Newsletter there are several based on recent PhD work, a promise for the continuation of Brunswikian research, applied to new topics.This year's contributions cover a remarkable range of different subject areas like semiotics, prescription of antibiotics, aviation and process control, aging, sport, farming, forestry etc.On the methodological side the usefulness of Brunswik's Lens Model paradigm and Hammond's Cognitive Continuum Theory have been exemplified and learning studies have enriched our understanding of the effect of varying feedback conditions and our respect for the human being's amazing capacity for vicarious functioning with aging.This widening of the Brunswikian research fields gives hope for the future realization of Brunswik's credo to psychology researchers to give equal attention to the environment as to the organism, in reality a Darwinian interaction-perspective.There are, however, important parts of our environment that are hardly at all represented in Brunswikian research so far, for example, music and visual art.Here, there are plenty of new research topics waiting in the wings.