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• Some Thoughts on 'The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience' (SCENE)

  Last year the Simons Foundation announced a massive multi-centre grant project called SCENE: The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience. Read more

  The 19 june 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Experimental Evidence for Direct Perception: Persisting Layout (Gibson, 1979,...

  We've now completed the first two sections of the book, which lay out the ecological approach. Gibson now turns to a review of the (at the time) existing... Read more

  The 15 june 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• The Theory of Affordances (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 8)

  The most influential part of this book is the theory of affordances. We still argue a lot about what these are and how they work, because they are slightly weir... Read more

  The 05 may 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• The Optical Information for Self-Perception (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 7)

  So far we have considered what the world looks like to a point of observation that may or may not be occupied. It was important to Gibson that he establish... Read more

  The 27 march 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Events and the Information for Perceiving Events (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 6)

  In the previous chapter, Gibson introduced the notion of the ambient optic array and discussed the kinds of information it can have (flow, and invariants). The... Read more

  The 27 march 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• The Ambient Optic Array (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 5)

  

  In the previous chapter, Gibson laid the foundations for an ecological optics by distinguishing between stimulation and stimulus information. Read more

  The 16 march 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• The Relationship Between Stimulation and Stimulus Information (Gibson, 1979,...

  The first three chapters describe the world to be perceived, at the ecological scale. This chapter opens the section on how we visually perceive that world - vi... Read more

  The 05 march 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• The Meaningful Environment (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 3)

  In Chapter 1, Gibson identified the animal and it's environment as the two mutually defining parts of an ecological system. In Chapter 2, he developed a... Read more

  The 05 march 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Medium, Substances, Surfaces (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 2)

  

  In this chapter, Gibson continues to lay out the rules of the environment (vs the physical world). In physics, there are objects in spaces, but this simply... Read more

  The 16 february 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• The Animal and the Environment (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 1)

  Gibson's first chapter introduces his notion of the environment. This is a distinct level of description from the world according to physics, even though... Read more

  The 16 february 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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