Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists

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...

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

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

The first three chapters describe the world to be perceived, at the ecological scale. This chapter opens the section on how we visually perc...

In Chapter 1 , Gibson identified the animal and it's environment as the two mutually defining parts of an ecological system. In Chapter ...

In this chapter, Gibson continues to lay out the rules of the environment (vs the physical world). In physics, there are objects in spaces, ...