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The senses considered as perceptual systems

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The ecology of vertebrate olfaction

TL;DR: The olfactory system of vertebrates and applications of researches intoOlfactory biology are studied, including the links between aggression-motivated behaviour and scent deposition, and sex attraction and recognition the advertisement of sexual status.
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Theorizing Affordances: From Request to Refuse:

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demarcate the mechanisms of affordance, as artifacts request, demand, allow, encourage, discourage, and refuse, which take shape through interrelated conditions: perception, dexterity, and cultural and institutional legitimacy.
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Activities and Causation: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Mechanisms

TL;DR: In this paper, a number of arguments are developed concerning their epistemic and ontological status and some questions concerning the relations between cause and causal explanation and mechanisms are also addressed, in response to many perplexities about the nature of activities.
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Sound symbolism in infancy: Evidence for sound–shape cross-modal correspondences in 4-month-olds

TL;DR: It is suggested that some sound-shape mappings precede language learning, and may in fact aid in language learning by establishing a basis for matching labels to referents and narrowing the hypothesis space for young infants.
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The change from visible to invisible

TL;DR: In this article, a distinction is made between objects that go out of sight and objects that went out of existence, and it is shown that optical information exists to distinguish these two cases.