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Mathieu DeWitt
Matthieu de Wit, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Muhlenberg College, runs the Ecological Neuroscience (ECON) Lab and researches ecological psychology's integration with neuroscience.
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Feb 25, 2026
BI 232 How Should Neuroscience Integrate with Ecological Psychology?
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92:01Mathieu DeWittGUEST
The way I would describe it is sort of like the fact that the brain, the body, and the environment are extremely tightly integrated, means that if you sort of wiggle anywhere in that system, it's going to show up.
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92:25Mathieu DeWittGUEST
And so as a concrete example, in my lab, I did a study looking at mental rotation.
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92:34Mathieu DeWittGUEST
And I wanted to manipulate the non-neural body, so I did that by restricting hand movement, even though hands were not, strictly speaking, involved in this task.
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92:49Mathieu DeWittGUEST
And restricting the hand movements had an effect on the ability to mentally rotate.
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