The ecological approach to visual perception /

Main Author: Gibson, James Jerome, 1904-1980.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hillsdale, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1986.
Series:Resources for ecological psychology.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The animal and the environment
  • 2. Medium, substances, surfaces
  • 3. The meaningful environment
  • 4. The relationship between stimulation and stimulus information
  • 5. The ambient optic array
  • 6. Events and the information for perceiving events
  • 7. The optical information for self-perception
  • 8. The theory of affordances
  • 9. Experimental evidence for direct perception : persisting layout
  • 10. Experiments on the perception of motion in the world and movement of the self
  • 11. The discovery of the occluding edge and its implications for perception
  • 12. Looking with the head and eyes
  • 13. Locomotion and manipulation
  • 14. The theory of information pickup and its consequences
  • 15. Pictures and visual awareness
  • 16. Motion pictures and visual awareness
  • Appendix 1. The principal terms used in ecological optics
  • Appendix 2. The concept of invariants in ecological optics.