Author: James Jerome GibsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Perception
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems
Author: James Jerome GibsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Perception
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems
Author: James J. GibsonThe Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems
Author: James Jerome GibsonThe Senses Considered As Perceptual Systems
Author: James J. GibsonPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
ISBN: 9780395044940
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Reciprocity of Perceiver and Environment
Author: Thomas J. LombardoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315514397
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Originally published in 1987, this title intended to historically reveal, through tracing Gibson’s development, the substance of his views and how they bore upon general philosophical issues in theories of knowledge, and to investigate in detail the historical context of Gibson’s theoretical position within psychology. Though the author has included a history of Gibson’s perceptual research and experimentation, the focus is to explicate the ‘dynamic abstract form’ of Gibson’s ecological approach. His emphasis is philosophical and theoretical, attempting to bring out the direction Gibson was moving in and how such changes could restructure the theoretical fabric of psychology. He devotes considerable attention to the Greeks, Medievalists, and the founders of the Scientific Revolution. This is because Gibson’s theoretical challenge runs deep into the structure of western thought. The authors’ central goal was to set Gibson’s ecological theory within the historical context of fundamental philosophical-scientific issues.
Reasons for Realism
Author: Edward ReedPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000734811
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
James J. Gibson’s numerous theoretical and empirical contributions to the understanding of how people perceive were innovative, controversial, often radical, and always profound. Many of his ideas revolutionized the science of perception, and his influence continued to grow throughout the world. This book, originally published in 1982, is a collection of the most important of Gibson’s essays on the psychology of perception. Drawing from the entire corpus of Gibson’s papers, the editors have selected over thirty works dealing with such diverse topics as ecological optics, event perception, pictorial representation, and the conceptual foundations of psychology. The editors’ goals in preparing the volume were twofold: first to provide easy access to Gibson’s most outstanding papers and talks, including some that were previously unpublished; and second, to provide an intellectual biography of Gibson by including essays from the different periods of his career.
The Senses
Author: Fiona MacphersonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195385969
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
A Collection of Classic and Contemporary Articles on the Philosophy of the Senses --
The Ecological Approach To Visual Perception
Author: James J. GibsonPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 113505973X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
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.
Perception
Author: Brian J. RogersPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198791003
Category : PSYCHOLOGY
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Perception is one of the oldest and most deeply investigated topics in psychology, and it raised some profound philosophical questions. It is concerned with how we use the information reaching our senses to inform our behaviour, and to create our subjective experience of the surrounding world. Brian Rogers discusses the philosophical question of what it means to perceive, and describes how we are able to perceive the particular characteristics of objects and scenes such as their lightness, colour, form, depth, and motion. He argues that perception should not be seen as a separate process but rather as part of a 'perceptual system', involving both the extraction ofperceptual information and the control of action--Amazon.com.
The Study of Time II
Author: J. T. FraserPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642501214
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The Second Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time was held at Hotel Mt. Fuji, near Lake Yamanaka, Japan, on July I to 7,1973. The present volume is the proceedings at that Con ference and constitutes the second volume in The Study of Time series. * At the closing session of our First Conference in Oberwolfach, Germany, in 1969, I was honored by being elected to the Presidency of the Society, following Dr. J. G. Whitrow, our fIrst President. My mandate was to organize a Second Conference, consistent with the aim of the Society, which is the holding of interdisciplinary conferences for the presentation and discussion of papers on various as pects of time. Several participants expressed to me their wish to have a second conference held in Japan so as to emphasize the international and intercultural dedication of this Society. Dr. Fraser carefully evaluated this and many other suggestions, weighed the possible conference sites and our chances of raising the necessary funds to convene a meeting at such sites, and concurred with my conclusions that we should go ahead with the plans for a Japanese meeting. For the difficult and complicated task of raising funds and organizing a conference in Japan, I had to select and rely heavily on somebody both capable and reliable and also living in Japan. Thus, I asked the Reverend Michael Mutsuo Yanase, S. J.