Monday, 16 February 2026

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

Part I: The Environment to be Perceived

Chapter 1: The Animal and the Environment  
    Blog || Video || Podcast
Chapter 2: Medium, Substances, Surfaces  
    Blog || Video || Podcast
Chapter 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 || Podcast
Chapter 5: The Ambient Optic Array  
    Blog || Video || Podcast
Chapter 6: Events and the Information for Perceiving Events  
    Blog || Video || Podcast
Chapter 7: The Optical Information for Self-Perception  
    Blog || Video || Podcast
Chapter 8: The Theory of Affordances  
    Blog || Video || Podcast

Part III: Visual Perception

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

Part IV: Depiction

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

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