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“A treatment of the basic sensory processes that deemphasizes psychophysics, quantitative findings about thresholds, anatomy and physiology of receptors. . . . Good illustrations and bibliography. . . . Stimulating work for seniors and graduate students who have a background in a more conventional treatment of sensory processes.”–Choice
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This is one of the greatest books ever written on the subject of sense-perception. It's a masterpiece not just in psychology but in philosophy. Against the view that perception involves taking in raw data and then doing a lot of internal construction and inference to build up an internal image representing the world, Gibson defends a more Aristotelean, direct-realist view that our senses enable us to perceive directly the information that is available in the external world. Gibson calls this an "ecological" approach to perception. He's particularly interested in our perception of motion, and of our ability to perceive changes in our own position. This summary doesn't do justice to the richness of this book.
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In considering the problem of perception in man and animals the first question to ask should be, what is there to be perceived? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
compulsory convergence, basic orienting system, visual kinesthesis, imposed stimulation, ambient array, dynamic touching, mechanical encounters, receptive units, haptic system, excited receptors, vibratory events, optic array, pictorial attitude, ecological optics, information pickup, stimulus information, haptic touch, adjacent order, optical texture, optical structure, obtained stimulation, optical stimulation, vibratory field, haptic perception, graphic act Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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compulsory convergence, basic orienting system, visual kinesthesis, imposed stimulation, ambient array, dynamic touching, mechanical encounters, receptive units, haptic system, excited receptors, vibratory events, optic array, pictorial attitude, ecological optics, information pickup, stimulus information, haptic touch, adjacent order, optical texture, optical structure, obtained stimulation, optical stimulation, vibratory field, haptic perception, graphic act Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Handbook of Physiology by American Physiological Society on page 169, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Principles of Gestalt Psychology by K. Koffka on page 294, and page 301
- Meaning Of Meaning by C. K. Ogden in Back Matter
- Orientation of Animals by Fraenkel in Back Matter
- Behavior of Organisms: Experimental Analysis by B. Skinner in Back Matter
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- Perception (Blackwell Readings in Philosophy) by Robert Schwartz on 12 pages
- Advances in Visual Semiotics: The Semiotic Web 1992-93 (Approaches to Semiotics) by Thomas A. Sebeok on 7 pages
- Cognition and Tool Use: Forms of Engagement in Human and Animal Use of Tools by Christopher Baber in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Critical Realism: Essential Readings (Critical Realism: Interventions) by Roy Bhaskar on page 46, page 103, and page 639
- Art, Perception, and Reality (Thalheimer Lectures) by E. H. Gombrich on page 17, page 93, and page 130
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