James J. Gibson
James J. Gibson
James Jerome Gibson, was an American psychologist who received his Ph.D. from Princeton University's Department of Psychology, and is considered one of the most important 20th century psychologists in the field of visual perception. Gibson challenged the idea that the nervous system actively constructs conscious visual perception, and instead promoted ecological psychology, in which the mind directly perceives environmental stimuli without additional cognitive construction or processing. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Gibson as the 88th...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth27 January 1904
CountryUnited States of America
James J. Gibson quotes about
I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.
The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.
The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.