Physics is Wrong w/ Dr. Wolfgang Smith | Episode #22
Off Limits w/ Bryan Callen
James Gibson's Ecological Theory of Visual Perception
James Gibson discovered that this long-standing visual image theory of a retinal image theory of visual perception is untenable and so he started from scratch looking for a new way of understanding visual perception. After about 30 years of brilliant empirical work he came out with a theory which he called the ecological theory ofVisual Perception. He was saying what we actually perceive is the environment and this was a tremendous breakthrough I was very happy to see that the academic community made him a member of the National Academy they honored him.
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