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Tuesday, 7 July 2026

Experiments on the Perception of Motion in the World and Movement of the Self (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 10)

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Chapter 9 was about perceiving persistence in the environment. Chapter 10 is about perceiving change, and the evidence that this also might ...
Friday, 19 June 2026

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

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Last year the Simons Foundation announced a massive multi-centre grant project called SCENE: The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neurosci...
Monday, 15 June 2026

Experimental Evidence for Direct Perception: Persisting Layout (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 9)

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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 t...
Tuesday, 5 May 2026

The Theory of Affordances (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 8)

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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 t...
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Friday, 27 March 2026

The Optical Information for Self-Perception (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 7)

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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 th...

Events and the Information for Perceiving Events (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 6)

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In the previous chapter , Gibson introduced the notion of the ambient optic array and discussed the kinds of information it can have (flow, ...
Monday, 16 March 2026

The Ambient Optic Array (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 5)

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