Prof. C. S. Gibson, O.B.E., F.R.S.

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...

Prof. U. S. Nayak M.S., M.Ch., F.R.A.C.S.

Born in Vijayawada, to Dr. U.V Nayak, Professor of Anatomy at MMC, and Mrs. Sanjeevi Bai, Dr. Nayak graduated in medicine from MMC in 1954 and went on to pursue post‐graduation in general surgery from another prestigious institute, Stanley Medical College in 1959. He was the first batch pupil along with Dr. Mathangi Ramakrishnan, when the legendary Prof. C R Sunderarajan started the first M.Ch....

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James J . Gibson ' S Ecological Approach Perceiving What Exists

Dillon, M.C. 1997. Merleau-Ponty's Ontology. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. Einstein, Albert. 1961. Relativity. Translated by Robert W. Lawson. New York: Wings Books. . 1982. Ideas and Opinions. New York: Crown Publishers. Hass, Lawrence. 1999. "Sense and Alterity: Rereading Merleau-Ponty's Reversibility Thesis." In Merleau-Ponty, Interiority and Exteriority, Psychic Life and the Worl...

Gibson ’ s “ Affordances ” : Evolution of a Pivotal Concept

Ecological psychology applies insights of Darwinian theory and Gestalt principles to the understanding of perceptual processes. James J. Gibson developed a perceptual theory of "affordances", a neologism he adopted for the pivotal concept in a radical view of how interactive organism-environment features index the behaviors an organism may perform (perceived action possibilities). Gibson assert...