Bob Filner
American politician
James J. Gibson
American psychologist (1904-1979)
James Jerome Gibsonwas an American psychologist and is considered to be one of the most important contributors to the field of visual perception. Gibson challenged the idea that the nervous system actively constructs conscious visual perception, and instead promoted ecological psychology, in which the mind directly perceives environmental stimuli without additional cognitive construction or processing.
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James Jerome Gibsonwas an American psychologist and is considered to be one of the most important contributors to the field of visual perception. Gibson challenged the idea that the nervous system actively constructs conscious visual perception, and instead promoted ecological psychology, in which the mind directly perceives environmental stimuli without additional cognitive construction or processing. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked him as the 88th most cited psychologist of the 20th century, tied with John Garcia, David Rumelhart, Louis Leon Thurstone, Margaret Floy Washburn, and Robert S. Woodworth.
10 Quotes by James J. Gibson
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The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.
James J. GibsonAmerican psychologist (1904-1979)
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I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.
James J. GibsonAmerican psychologist (1904-1979)
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Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.
James J. GibsonAmerican psychologist (1904-1979)
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The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.
James J. GibsonAmerican psychologist (1904-1979)
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The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.
James J. GibsonAmerican psychologist (1904-1979)
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There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.
James J. GibsonAmerican psychologist (1904-1979)
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The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.
James J. GibsonAmerican psychologist (1904-1979)
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What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.
James J. GibsonAmerican psychologist (1904-1979)
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A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.
James J. GibsonAmerican psychologist (1904-1979)
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Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.
James J. GibsonAmerican psychologist (1904-1979)