ALEXANDER GIBSON

Greg Gibson

Greg Gibson grew up in Canberra, Australia, and did his undergraduate degree in Biology at the University of Sydney. He moved to Basel, Switzerland, for his PhD on the specificity of homeotic genes in Drosophila, and then to Stanford for postdoctoral research, where his interests turned to the quantitative genetics of development in flies. After a year at Duke University he took up a junior fac...

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The existence of a pure form of stimulus-driven attentional control has been aligned exclusively with the existence of attentional capture. Unfortunately, there has been little evidence provided in support of attentional capture. The present study investigated whether the repeated failure to observe attentional capture might be due to the way in which attentional capture has been measured. A ne...

Gibson ' S Perception

J. J. Gibson's approach to,the study of perception emphasizes the way an active observer picks up information from the environment. The central postulates of Gibson's approach are that (1) visual space is defined by information (such as texture gradients) contained on environmental surfaces, (2) the crucial information for perception is information that remains invariant as an observer moves th...

James Jerome Gibson

Gibson and Russell's Physical Diagnosis