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Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems (1966) and The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (1979) and. The Ecology of J. Gibson's Perception. The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems, by J. Gibson Citations. PDF Click to increase image size Click to decrease. The Senses Considered as Perceptual.

TheSensesConsidered asPerceptualSystems. Gibson, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1966. 351pp., illus., $7.50.

Artists traditionally are experimenters in visual psychology. Cezanne’s preoccupation with edges, Monet’s attempts to catch the highlights of a sundrenched landscape, and Seurat’s decomposition of a scene into dots-all may be regarded as consciousexcursionsintovisualpsychology. Despite the large body of literature in scientific visual psychology, most artists do not appreciate the relevance of that work to art, and for good reason. Psychologists tend to worship the methods of the physical sciences which have advanced so spectacularly, due in a large measure, to reducing the number of variablessothat the essenceof a problem is revealed.

As a consequence, the psychologist examines isolated phenomena free of (what he thinks) are extraneous variables. But art is not like this-the impact of a painting is not due to the sum of its parts. Perhaps it is for this reason that many artists regard the work of psychologists as sterile or, at least, irrelevant to art. Psychologists, on the other hand, may regard artists as being verbally inarticulate or, perhaps, lacking in mental discipline. The gap between the artist and the psychologist is so vast that a possible rapprochement seemed out ofthequestion. Now along comes the startling book by the psychologist, J.

This book will, I am convinced, prove to be a bombshell for psychologists. It could, too, be a revelation for the artist. For Gibson, perception is not a mere reception of outside stimuli which the mind stores, and like an electronic computor, then dutifully proceeds to analyze. Surely the eye in its rapid unconscious movements receives millions of images. Our Global Environment A Health Perspective 7th Ed Ebook Download more. But we do not mull over these messages along with all the others of our past experienceto arrive at the conclusionthat ‘thisis a door’ when we see a door.

Gibson shows with many and varied examples that the perceiver is an active participant, who searches for stable factors (invariants) in his environment. Primitive examples of invariants are that light generally comes from above, and that the pull of gravity is downwards. This probing or searchingis likened to a man groping in the dark, who must run his fingers over objects in order to recognise them. Indeed, Gibson amplifies on this sense, the haptic sense, and describes his masterful research on form and touch, an area sorely neglectedby other psychologists.