Many current neurophysiological, psychophysical, and psychological approaches to vision
rest on the idea that when we see, the brain produces an internal representation of the …

Sensory ecology investigates the information that underlies an animal's interactions with its
environment. A sensory ecology framework is used here to seek to assess why flying birds …

James J. Gibson's numerous theoretical and empirical contributions to the understanding of
how people perceive were innovative, controversial, often radical, and always profound …

Ecological Psychology is an embodied, situated, and non-representational approach
pioneered by JJ Gibson and EJ Gibson. This theory aims to offer a third way beyond …

In this book Harry Heft examines the historical and theoretical foundations of James J.
Gibson's ecological psychology in 20th century thought, and in turn, integrates ecological …

STEERING a car requires visual information from the changing pattern of the road ahead.
There are many theories about what features a driver might use1–3, and recent attempts to …

This comprehensively updated and expanded revision of the successful second edition
continues to provide detailed coverage of the ever-growing range of research topics in …

The theory of affordances, a conceptual pillar of the ecological approach to perception and
action, has the potential to become a guiding principle for research on perception and action …

As a basis for understanding the visual system, we need to consider the functions that vision
has to perform, which are pre-eminently in the service of activity, and the circumstances in …

Navigation is coordinated and goal-directed movement through the environment by
organisms or intelligent machines. It involves both planning and execution of movements. It …