The Ecological Approach To Visual PerceptionPsychology Press, 2013 M05 13 - 352 pages This is a book about how we see: the environment around us (its surfaces, their layout, and their colors and textures); where we are in the environment; whether or not we are moving and, if we are, where we are going; what things are good for; how to do things (to thread a needle or drive an automobile); or why things look as they do. The basic assumption is that vision depends on the eye which is connected to the brain. The author suggests that natural vision depends on the eyes in the head on a body supported by the ground, the brain being only the central organ of a complete visual system. When no constraints are put on the visual system, people look around, walk up to something interesting and move around it so as to see it from all sides, and go from one vista to another. That is natural vision -- and what this book is about. |
Contents
PREFACE | |
PART ONE THE ENVIRONMENT TO BE PERCEIVED | |
Observers | |
Permanence and Change of the Layout | |
PART | |
Surfaces andtheEcological Lawsof Surfaces | |
FOUR THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STIMULATION | |
Ambient EnergyasAvailable Stimulation | |
PART THREEVISUAL PERCEPTION NINE EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE | |
Summary | |
What Is SeenatThisMoment fromThis PositionDoes | |
The Puzzle of Egocentric Awareness Hiding PeekingandPrivacy | |
THIRTEEN LOCOMOTION AND MANIPULATION The Evolutionof | |
Rules | |
Input Processing The FalseDichotomy | |
FIFTEEN PICTURES ANDVISUAL AWARENESS The Showing of Drawings and theStudyofPerception What Isa Picture? A Theory of Drawingan... | |
The InterceptAngle Moving Optical Structurewitha Point ofObservation The Change Between Hidden and Unhidden Surfaces Covering Edges How I... | |
A Classification of Terrestrial Events The Optical Information for PerceivingEvents The Causation ofEvents | |
The Specifying ofthe Selfby the Fieldof View The Specifyingof | |
Summary | |
EIGHT THE THEORY OF AFFORDANCES | |
Summary | |
What Does a Verbal Narration Make Available? | |
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