Reframing Botanical Blindness and Imperception Through Evolutionary Lenses

Reframing Botanical Blindness and Imperception Through Evolutionary Lenses

Abstract In this opinion article, we question the tendency to treat human interactions with plants as a cognitive deficit through terms such as botanical blindness, botanical imperception, or plant awareness disparity (PAD). Rather than denying the existence of the phenomenon these terms attempt to...

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Main Authors: Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Aníbal Silva Cantalice, Edwine Soares Oliveira, Francisco Igor Ribeiro Santos, Hermeson Carlos Santos, Ingrid da Silva Lima, João Victor Mendes Silva, Letícia Elias, Marcela Maria Albuquerque-Silva, Maria Vittória Alves de Santana, Paula Thayanne Mata, Rayane Karoline Silva dos Santos, Valdir de Moura Brito Júnior, Yasmim Antonino Costa Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Botânica do Brasil 2025-07-01
Series:Acta Botânica Brasílica
Subjects:
Animacy
cognitive bias
differential attention
plant awareness disparity
ethnobiology
ethnobotany
naturalistic mind
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-33062025000100600&lng=en&tlng=en
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