Psychology Press eBooks· 2014
The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
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Short summary
This seminal 1979 book proposes that natural vision is not solely dependent on the eye and brain, but rather on the entire visual system: the eyes, head, body, and interaction with the environment.
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Key points
- Vision is an active process of the entire visual system, including the body and environment.
- Natural vision involves free exploration and movement around objects and vistas.
- The environment's surfaces, layout, and textures are key perceptual information.
- Our own movement and position within the environment are integral to seeing.
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Abstract
This book, first published in 1979, is 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.
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