The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception - Couverture souple

Gibson, James J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0898599598 ISBN 13 : 9780898599596

Editeur : Routledge, 1986

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

This series of volumes is dedicated to furthering the development of psychology as a branch of ecological science. In its broadest sense, ecology is a multidisciplinary approach to the study of living systems, their environments, and the reciprocity that has evolved between the two. Ecological science traditionally emphasizes the study of the biological bases of the energy transactions between animals and their physical environments across cellular, organism, and population scales. Ecological psychology complements this focus by proposing that we also study the information transaction between living systems and their environments, especially as they pertain to the perceived significance of environmental situations for the planning and execution of purposive behaviors, including those of a social, scientific, or artistic nature.

The late James J. Gibson coined the term 'ecological psychology' to emphasize his belief that more traditional psychologies of the "mind" or of "behavior" were to narrowly conceived : Mentalism, by its belief in the subjective origins of concepts, tends to divorce the "thinking" animal from environmental sources of constraint. Similarly, behaviorism, with its over-reliance on habits to explain behavior, tends to trivialize the relation of the acting animal to its perceptual world. Ecological psychology, on the other hand, recognizes the co evolution of animals and their environments, and pursues a doctrine of animal-environment reciprocity as its guiding principle. Including work from disciplines other than psychology, this series provides a variety of factual, methodological, and theoretical resources for those who wish to advance the development of psychology as a branch of ecological science. Titles in the series include :

- Reasons for Realism : Selected Essays of James J. Gibson Edited by Edward S. Reed & Rebecca K. Jones

- Persistence and Change : Proceedings from the First International Conference on Event Perception Edited by William H. Warren & Robert H. Shaw

- Issues in the Ecological Study of Learning Edited by Timothy D. Johnston & Alexandra T. Pietrewicz

- Event Condition : An Ecological Perspective Edited by Vicki McCabe & Gerald Balzano

- Information, Natural Law, and the Self-Assembly Of Rhythmic Movement (in press) by Peter Kugler & Michael T. Turvey

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0898599598
• ISBN 13: 9780898599596
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 348
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible