ABSTRACT
In the interview with Nancy de Villiers Rader conducted by Agnes Szokolszky in 1997, Nancy de Villiers Rader recounts how she became a graduate student of Eleanor Gibson in the 1970s at Cornell University in Ithaca. She gives a first-hand description of the “Thursday seminars” on perception given by James Gibson and recounts how she got involved in research on the visual cliff and how her work on the traversability of surfaces developed. She invokes personal experiences with both Eleanor and James Gibson at a time when Cornell University was a lively scientific center of Ecological Psychology. She also ponders what it meant for her to be a researcher with a “Gibsonian view.” In her current reflection, Dr. Rader puts her lifetime work in perspective and highlights research following the interview until recently. The chapter contains a short biography and a list of Nancy Rader's ten most important publications.
