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title: "The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (Psychology Press & Routledge Classic Editions)"
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# The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (Psychology Press & Routledge Classic Editions)

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    Providing a framework to help researchers think about perception: "The more it changes, the more it is the same thing."
  

*by W***M on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 9, 2013*

We cannot change it. Why has man changed the shapes and substances of his environment? To change what it affords him. He has made more available what benefits him and less pressing what injures him. In making life easier for himself, of course, he has made life harder for most of the other animals. We all fit into the substructures of the environment in our various ways, for we were all, in fact, formed by them. We were created by the world we live in.Gibson said that if what we perceived were the entities of physics and mathematics, meaning would have to be imposed on them. But if what we perceived are the entities of environment science, their meaning can be discovered.  He has conceived "the theory of affordances".  He has described the environment as the surfaces that separate substances from the medium in which the animals live. But he has also described what the environment affords animals, mentioning the terrain, shelters, water, fire, objects, tool, other animals, and human displays.  The import question is how do we go from surfaces to affordance? A radical hypothesis implies that the values and meanings of things in the environment can be directly perceived, moreover, it would explain the sense in which values and meaning are external to the perceiver.The advantage to the theory of perception to be derived from a study of this affordance is apparent at every step. We may in our perception-action coupling space conceive quadratic forms like those of the conics, follow Joachimsthal's equation, in connection with maximization and minimization problem in motor control, and observed that if we adopt the fertile method of investigation introduced by Joachimsthal, an equilibrium equation of locomotion and manipulation arose in connection with the determination of existence of quadratic function.

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    Classic visual perception reading.
  

*by B***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 12, 2019*

Gibson. Vision. Perception. Need I say more?If you're considering this book then you already know this is classic visual perception literature. Not only will it inform you, it will put you to sleep at night when nothing else will.

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    Good
  

*by Y***G on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 3, 2019*

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