Event overview
As part of the The Whitehead Lectures, Sarah Bro Padersen, University of Southern Denmark, presents qualitative investigations of how human perception stems from cultural knowledge and realtime flexible, adaptive behaviour in a medical arena.
“With Gibson (1986) I reject the hypothesis that the environment is perceived with our eyes. Rather, perception depends on: “the eyes in the head on a body supported by the ground, the brain being only the central organ of a complete visual system” (Gibson 1986: 1). Gibson’s approach to perception expanded the perceptual system in space but not in time. Goodwin (1994; 2002; 2003; 2007) on the other hand, examines the temporal and sociological aspect of how the environment affords various perceptions amongst distinctive groups of individuals. For instance, by linking professionals’ situated cognition to processes of classification that guide relevant action-perception cycles, he shows how they are able to achieve a successful outcome in realtime. As repetitive interaction sculptures categorical patterns and forms over time, practitioners are provided with a professional vision (Goodwin, 1994). That is, an expert view that over time becomes materialised into artefacts with inherent cultural meaning that symbolises a unique domain of competency.
In this talk I present qualitative investigations of how human perception stems from cultural knowledge and realtime flexible, adaptive behaviour in a medical arena. Relating Goodwin’s term ‘professional vision’ to Gibson’s ‘visual system’, it is demonstrated how perception is embedded in an extended space-time. Hence, what a medical practitioner sees, feels and perceives is both socially pre-organised through material-cultural artefacts and the implementation of procedures and narratives, and it is dynamical, anticipative and situated (Pedersen and Steffensen, in press.”
BIO: Sarah Bro Pedersen draws on qualitative approaches within the cognitive sciences and the language sciences when she studies how people through interactivity (cognitive and linguistic processes) are able to link bodies, expressive features of the environment and meaning. A methodological concern, thus, falls on how interactivity connects the rapid processes of realtime coaction with situation transcendent processes of social knowledge, norms and meaning in a way that forms results. In 2012, Sarah received the Elite Research Scholarship granted by The Danish Ministry of Research, Innovation and Higher Education. Sarah has worked at various labs around the world including: Gothenburg University, with Professor Per Linell; The University of California San Diego, with Professor David Kirsch; Stanford University with Professor Michael L. Anderson; University of California, Berkeley, with Professor Claire Kramsch. Sarah is currently visiting Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 2 Oct 2013 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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