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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

    Chapters 1 & 2: Video || Podcast

Part II: The Information for Visual Perception

    Chapters 3 & 4: Video || Podcast
    Chapter 5: Video || Podcast 
    Chapters 6 & 7: Video || Podcast
    Chapter 8: Video || Podcast

Part III: Visual Perception

    Chapter 9: Video || Podcast
    Chapter 10: Video || Podcast
    Chapter 11: Video || Podcast
    Chapters 12: Video || Podcast
Chapter 13: Locomotion and Manipulation  
Chapter 14: The Theory of Information Pickup and Its Consequences  
    Chapters 13 & 14: Video || Podcast

Part IV: Depiction

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

1 comment:

  1. HI, Really enjoying your blog. I can across it in this article: https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer

    I'd like to to share the book I just published. THE FEELING MACHINE. https://bit.ly/tfm_ai. As artificial intelligence advances, human expertise becomes more valuable—not less. Bottom line: AI must be used to amplify the human.

    We share similar interests and overlap with Gibson, and Simon. I go and further look at the work of Damasio, Gigerenzer, Klein and some others.


    Press release: https://www.prweb.com/releases/new-book-challenges-the-biggest-assumption-in-ai-that-human-judgment-can-be-replaced-302797802.html. Would welcome the opportunity to chat.

    Happy to chat!
    Mark

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