ABSTRACT
This book provides a chapter-by-chapter update to and reflection on of the landmark volume by J.J. Gibson on the Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (1979).
Gibson’s book was presented a pioneering approach in experimental psychology; it was his most complete and mature description of the ecological approach to visual perception. Perception as Information Detection commemorates, develops, and updates each of the sixteen chapters from Gibson’s volume. The book brings together some of the foremost perceptual scientists in the field, from the United States, Europe, and Asia, to reflect on Gibson’s original chapters, expand on the key concepts discussed and relate this to their own cutting-edge research. This connects Gibson’s classic with the current state of the field, as well as providing a new generation of students with a contemporary overview of the ecological approach to visual perception.
Perception as Information Detection is an important resource for perceptual scientists as well as both undergraduates and graduates studying sensation and perception, vision, cognitive science, ecological psychology, and philosophy of mind.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
The Environment to Be Perceived
chapter 4|20 pages
Challenging the Axioms of Perception
part II|2 pages
The Information for Visual Perception
chapter 6|20 pages
The Challenge of an Ecological Approach to Event Perception
part III|2 pages
Visual Perception
chapter 9|23 pages
Perceiving Surface Layout
chapter 10|14 pages
Acting Is Perceiving
chapter 13|15 pages
James Gibson’s Ecological Approach to Locomotion and Manipulation
chapter 14|16 pages
Information and Its Detection
part IV|2 pages
Depiction