The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
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...In short, these phenomena are compatible with the notion of a fast dorsal specification system that quickly uses novel visual information to specify the potential actions most consistently associated with a given stimulus (Gibson 1979, Milner & Goodale 1995)....
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...Instead, pragmatic processes that mediate sensorimotor interaction in the here and now, on the basis of continuous streams of sensory inputs as well as prior knowledge and experiences, are much more useful for guiding interactive behavior (Gibson 1979)....
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...He defined the concept of affordances (Gibson 1979) as the opportunities for action that the environment presents to an animal....
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...Generalizing somewhat we can say that surfaces afford, for instance, locomotion and support, substances nutrition and manufacture, objects manipulation, other animals a variety of interactions, and other people afford “the whole spectrum of social significance” (Gibson, 1979/1986, pp. 127–128)....
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...A Rich Landscape of Affordances Erik Rietveld Department of Philosophy, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, and Academic Medical Center University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Julian Kiverstein Department of Philosophy and Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands How broad is the class of affordances we can perceive?...
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...(Gibson, 1979/1986, p. 140) Given that all these value-rich affordances are publicly available, could we perhaps say that it is only our ignorance and lack of skill that limit our tapping into these potentially valuable resources for our practices?...
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...The convenient and useful definition of affordances as possibilities for action obscures the complexity and richness of the concept we find at work in Gibson’s writings (see, e.g., Gibson, 1979/1986)....
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...We may, for instance, “feel a special attraction” to the mailbox when we have to mail a letter (Gibson, 1979/1986, p. 139)....
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...The ways in which we know, learn, and build the city is not a transmission of information, but what Ingold calls, after psychologist James Gibson, an education of attention (Gibson, 1979, page 254; Ingold, 2000, pages 166 ^ 167)....
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