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Reading Group - Gibson (1979) The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

By Andrew D Wilson @PsychScientists
Reading Group - Gibson (1979) The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

Rob, Marianne, and I had so much fun with the Turvey (2019) reading group that we decided to keep going, and we decided to return to the source - Gibson's 1979 book. Buckle up, this should be fun!

We'll be using the 2014 edition, so all page numbers will refer to that (I have the feeling I will be directly quoting the eminently quotable Gibson a lot more than I did with Turvey!). I will use this page to link to my post, and the video and podcast links for our group discussions, for each chapter.

Gibson (1979) The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

Introductions in the 2014 edition

Part I: The Environment to be Perceived

Chapter 1: The Animal and the Environment      Blog || Video || PodcastChapter 2: Medium, Substances, Surfaces      Blog || Video || PodcastChapter 3: The Meaningful Environment      Blog || Video || Podcast

Part II: The Information for Visual Perception

Chapter 4: The Relationship Between Stimulation and Stimulus Information      Blog || Video || PodcastChapter 5: The Ambient Optic Array      Blog || Video || PodcastChapter 6: Events and the Information for Perceiving Events      Blog || Video || PodcastChapter 7: The Optical Information for Self-Perception      Blog || Video || PodcastChapter 8: The Theory of Affordances      Blog || Video || Podcast

Part III: Visual Perception

Chapter 9: Experimental Evidence for Direct Perception: Persisting Layout      Blog || Video || PodcastChapter 10: Experiments on the Perception of Motion in the World and Movement of the Self      Blog || Video || PodcastChapter 11: The Discovery of the Occluding Edge and Its Implications for Perception      Blog || Video || PodcastChapter 12: Looking with the Head and Eyes      Blog || Video || PodcastChapter 13: Locomotion and Manipulation      Blog || Video || PodcastChapter 14: The Theory of Information Pickup and Its Consequences      Blog || Video || Podcast

Part IV: Depiction

Chapter 15: Pictures and Visual Awareness      Blog || Video || PodcastChapter 16: Motion Pictures and Visual Awareness      Blog || Video || Podcast

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