Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists

In this chapter, Gibson places head and eye movements on an ecological footing, and makes them the activity of a distributed perceptual syst...

Gibson introduced us to the notion of occlusion in Chapter 5 . Occlusion is when one surface is progressively covered up by another surface,...

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

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

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...

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...

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...