0 a use or purpose that a thing can have, that people notice as part of the way they see or experience it:
Selecting an appropriate measure of coupling strength depends critically on recognizing and describing the underlying affordance-effectivity match of the target system.
If the minimal unit of analysis is the affordance-effectivity match in a particular animal-environment system, then a very different approach to measurement may be required.
This affordance-effectivity match provides the criterion against which the robot's performance must be compared.
The main affordance of categorical reference, including naming, is that it can be accomplished with little interactional work - often by uttering a single word.
Admittedly, a dynamic systems account of an affordance field awaits significant further development.
He encapsulated this kind of information and the relationship with the world which it implies within the concept of the affordance.
Apparently, some form of affordance coding takes place in the ventral stream.
Let us focus here on the concept of affordance.
