James J. Gibson

for a readable introduction to his work, try:
Nakayama, K. (1994). James J. Gibson: An appreciation. Psychological Review, 110, 329-335.

This special issue includes a reprint of a 1954 article by Gibson on visual perception and movement.

Gibson and his intellectual followers have contributed to our understanding of how our PERCEPTION of the physical environment shapes our ACTIONS within that environment.


Other links regarding James J. Gibson and his theories:

a discussion of Gibson's Theory of Direct Perception from a web-based tutorial on visualization produced by the Universität-Gesamthochschule Paderborn. While very useful, this piece is translated from German and is grammatically a bit rough.

quotes from Gibson's work and a photo of him, courtesy of Masanao Takeyama, Ph.D., Faculty of Environmental Information, Keio University (Shonan Fujisawa Campus), Japan. Beware of opening mpg files of affordances, as they may cause your computer to open its browser repetitively.

information on an academic program in ecological psychology at the Univ. of Connecticut

A web collection of Gibson's unpublished work from the International Society for Ecological Psychology

On-line journal articles from Ecological Psychology


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