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Task-Environment Transformations

How strips of tape and painted boundary lines can be treated like brick walls.

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Josh Peacock
May 12, 2025
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Why would an adult walk right over boxes chalked into the sidewalk, whereas a child would hop through, alternating between legs in a specific sequence?

Both see the same visual structure, but they don’t engage it the same way.

Why?

Affordances are opportunities for action in the environment. Scientists will represent an affordance by taking an action word …

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