Perception as Information Detection: Reflections on Gibson's Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

This book provides a chapter-by-chapter update to and reflection on of the landmark volume by J.J. Gibson on the Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (1979).

Author: Jeffrey B. Wagman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 08/09/2019
Pages: 338
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780367312961

About the Author

Jeffrey B. Wagman, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at Illinois State University. His research focuses on perception of affordances. He is a recipient of the Illinois State University Outstanding University Researcher Award and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Ecological Psychology.

Julia J. C. Blau, Ph. D. is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Central Connecticut State University. She earned her doctorate in ecological psychology from the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on the fractality of event perception, as well as the ecological approach to film perception.