The Ecological Approach To Visual Perception

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Psychology 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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