Purple Perils of James Gibson: Table of Contents

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1954 - 1961

1. Ordinal Stimulation and the Possibility of a Global Psychophysics
2. Motion Parallax and Motion Perspective in Visual Perception
3. Long-Standing Paradoxes in Visual Perception, which Purport to be resolved by a "Global Stimulus" Theory of Perception
4. Note on the Concept of "Stimulus"
5. Note on the Responses of the Eye to Focusable Light
6. Note on "Unstructured" Stimulation
7. Proposed Set of Non-contradictory Assumptions about the Nature of stimuli The Use of the Word "Stimulus": Conclusions of the Survey
8. Schematic Perception
9. Outline of a New Attempt to Classify the Senses and the Sensory Inputs
10. On the Functions of Stimuli and Responses
11. Areas for Basic Research in Perception Contemplated at Cornell
12. The Accuracy of Form Discrimination with Three Types of Tactual Input: Passive, Moving, and Active
13. A List of the Sources of Potential Stimulation in the Terrestrial Environment - the Ordinary Causes of Actual Stimulation

1962 - 1964

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1. Theoretical Issues and Controversies in the Field of Perception
2. The S-R Formula and Experience
3. Four Cases of the Perception of Size in Space
4. Old and New Assumptions for a Theory of Visual Perception
5. The Non-visual Perception of External Motion
6. Note on the "Topography" of the Visual Stimulus
7. The Implications of Active Touch
8. Levels of the Optical Stimulus - array and the Hypothesis of Corresponding Levels of the Exploratory Visual System
9. Outline of Present Evidence for a Stimulus-Information Theory of the Perception of the Environment and for the Control of Locomotion in an Environment
10. On Exploratory vs. Performatory Manipulation and the Experiments being Performed to Distinguish Them
11. Note on Structure in the Optic Array
12. Summary of Present Evidence for a Stimulus - Information theory of Perception (in the fields of space - perception, event perception, and visual guidance of locomotion)
13. Further Consideration of a Paradox in the Visual Perception of Translatory Motion

1965 - 1967

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1. Note on the Terminology of Distortion in the Experiment on Adaptation to Prismatic Spectacles
2. The Comparison of Mediated Perception with Direct Perception
3. The Physical Causes of Optical Textures
4. Two Different Usages of the Term Information in the Study of Perception and Discrimination
5. Four Related Problems in the Visual Perception Of Environmental Layout
6. Rationale of a Current Series of Experiments on the Visual Perception of Superimposition
7. Note on the Perception of Slant
8. A Further Note on the Perception of the Motion of Objects as Related to the Perception of Events
9. Note on the Theory of a Just Noticeable Visual Motion
10. Tentative Plan for a Show of Displays to Illustrate The Structuring of Light by Nature and by Art
11. The Stick-in-Water Illusion (Revised)
12. The Development of Graphic Activity in the Child: A Theory and a First Experiment
13. The Consequences of the Pictorial Attitude (First draft; approximately as read. For criticism only)
14. Note on the Interpretation of Experiments Concerned with Perceptual Adaptation (For discussion in Perception Seminar, January 10th)
15. A Note on Innate Perception
16. Contrasting Assumptions of (A) the Classical Theory of Vision and (B) a New Theory of Vision
17. Optical Occlusion and Edge-Information in an Optic Array
18. Do animals have illusions? (Illusions caused by useless dimensions of sensitivity)
19. What is Perceived? Notes for a Reclassification of the Visible Properties of the Environment
20. Note on an Elaboration on the Distinction Between the Proximal and Distal Stimulus
21. A Model for Controlling the Stimulus Information for the Perception of the Human Gaze Line
22. Situations Requiring Different Types of Exploratory Ocular Behavior
23. Note on Illumination and Space (Draft)
24. SUBJECT: Ideas Worth Thinking About
25. Conflicting Object Information on the Two Retinas and Conflicting Object Information on Opposable Areas of the Body

1968 - 1969

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1. Psychophysical Hypothesis for Stationary Edge Perception
2. A Survey of the Types of So-called Eye-hand Coordination with the Aim of Describing the Kinds of Optical Feedback that Control the Kinds of Manipulation
3. The Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Organization
4. The Concept of the Stimulus. A Revised Formulation of the Alternatives
5. Consistency vs. Discrepancy of Stimulus Information
6. The Contrast Between Physical Motions and Optical Motions
7. Wave-Train Information and Wave-Front Information in Sound and Light, with a Note on Ecological Optics
8. Memo on Motion (for Seminar on Ecological Optics)
9. The Perception of Surface Layout: A Classification of Types
10. The Puzzle of the Retinal Image
11. On the Difference between Perception and Proprioception
12. The Construction of Meaning vs. the Detection of Meaning
13. Note on the Directness of Perception
14. "Information" in Visual Theory
15. A List of Ecologically Valid Meanings in a Stationary Ambient Optic Array
16. A Reconsideration of Eye-Movements and Eye Postures Based on Ecological Optics
17. A Course of Readings for Graduate Students Interested in Advanced Work in Perception
18. A Further Note on Occlusion
19. The Theory of Images Transmitted to the Brain
20. Homogeneous Optical Stimulation and its Implications for Visual Perception
21. Heterogeneous Optical Stimulation and Visual Perception
22. Three Kinds of Equivocal Information in Line Drawings
23. Psychology 511 "The Image"
24. Does the Ability to Visualize Depend on Visual Images?
25. The Psychology of Representation
26. Reversible Perspective and Reversed Motion
27. A Suggested Classification of the Types and Subtypes of Graphic Action
28. The Perception of a Permanent World
29. Tentative Outline of a History of the Concept of Image
30. Transparency and Occlusion or How Bishop Berkeley Went Wrong in the First Place
31. "Structural Meanings" in Early Utterances

1970 - 1971

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1. The Visual Ego
2. Terms Used in Ecological Optics
3. A Terminology for Describing the Layout of Opaque Surfaces and the Occluding of One Surface by Another
4. Memo On the Visual Perception of Tangible and Intangible Things
5. Note on Behavior and Koffka's Behavioral Environment
6. The Relation Between Retinal Stimulation and Visual Sensation
7. Inquiry into Sensations
8. Loss of Word-Meaning with Prolonged Fixation An Old Experiment in Need of Reinterpretation
9. Anomalies of Form Perception Resulting from Elements Moving within an Aperture or from an Aperture Moving over a Form
10. Current Problems in Ecological Optics (Projects for Psychol. 512. Seminar on Perception, Spring 1971)
11. Concerning Onset and Cessation of Stimulation and Disturbances in an Array of Stimulation
12. A Preliminary Description and Classification of Affordances
13. More on Affordances
14. Do We Ever See Light?
15. On the Distinction between Objects and Substances
16. Invariants in the Changing Optic Array and What They Specify for an Observer in an Environment
17. A Note on The Muddle of Extrasensory Perception
18. The Crisis in Sensory Physiology
19. On the Concept of Optical Texture
20. Note on Terrestrial Orientation
21. A Note on Conjuring Tricks and the Psychology of Event Perception

1972- 1979

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1. Note on The Differences between a Sensory Modality and a Perceptual System
2. The Exploring, Selecting, and Enhancing of Optical Stimulus Information. A New Classification of Ocular Adjustments
3. A Note on the El Greco Fallacy: Does It Apply to Methods of Studying Perception?
4. With What do We See?
5. On the Concept of the "Visual Angle" in an Optic Array and its history
6. On the Nature of Pictorial Representation
7. Note on the Concept of "What is Given"
8. Note on the Perception of Displacement
9. Further Note on Formless Invariants as Optical Information for Perception
10. Note on The Conceptual Muddle Underlying the Optical Inversion Experiment
11. Overt and Covert Attention
12. A Neglected Set of Facts about Vision that can only be Comprehended by Ecological Optics
13. An Insoluble Puzzle of Epistemology
14. A Further Note on the Perceiving of Hidden and Unhidden Surfaces
15. Note On the Act of Orienting and the State of Being Oriented
16. The Perceiving of the Hidden: A Tentative Set of Theorems
17. The Puzzle of Optical Structure
18. A Note on the Relation Between Perceptual and Conceptual Knowledge
19. A Listing of Supposed Operations on the Data of Sense
20. Note on the Norms of Surface Layout
21. The Psychophysical Experiment and the Perception Experiment
22. The Problem of Information Pickup Psychology 512
23. What is the Relation of Concepts to Percepts?
24. Note on Proprioception in Relation to Somaesthesis, Self-awareness, and Introspection
25. Note on the Apprehension of Formless and Timeless Invariants
26. A Note on the Argument from Equivalent Configurations
27. Note On Some Types of Visualizing Considered as Extended Forms of Visual Perceiving
28. What is it to Perceive?
29. Memo on the Process of Perception: Invariance Detection
30. Five Kinds of Knowing (Supplement to Note of March 1976)
31. Preliminary Tabulation of Processes that have been Supposed to Mediate Perception (Subject to Revision)
32. A Tentative Formula for the Perception of Persistence and Awareness of Reality
33. Memo on Vision and Touch Considered as Perceptual Systems
34. A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art
35. A Proposed Terminology for Discussing Images
36. A note on substances, surfaces, places, objects, events

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