%0 Journal Article
%T Understanding Skill Acquisition: The Enactive vs. the Ecological Approach and Some Consequences
%A Scarinzi Alfonsina
%J BIO Web of Conferences
%D 2011
%I 
%R 10.1051/bioconf/20110100080
%X This theoretical contribution aims at shedding light on the use of the notion of ¡®enactive¡¯ in research on direct perception and on its contribution to the understanding of skill acquisition. While its founders Varela et al. (1991) in the work ¡®The Embodied Mind¡¯ have stressed the specificity of the enactive approach and have insisted on the difference between the enactive and the ecological approach, ecological research tends to use the term ¡®enactive¡¯ as a general umbrella term to indicate intrinsically active perception. This contribution makes the point that the specificity of the notion of ¡®enactive¡¯ cannot be neglected and that this may have some relevant consequences for the understanding and investigation of skill acquisition.
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20110100080