How direct is visual perception?
Some reflections on Gibson's “ecological approach”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23329481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J A Fodor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, corresponding author), Zenon W Pylyshyn (Western University) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 139-196 |
| Publication date | 1981-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cognition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-0277 • E-ISSN: 1873-7838 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/0010-0277(81)90009-3 |
| PMID | 7196823 |
| OpenAlex | W2144475403 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 120 |
| References cited | 19 |
Causal model · Causal structure · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Function (biology) · Generalization · Image (mathematics) · Invariant (physics) · Perception · Representation (politics) · Similarity (geometry) · Artificial Intelligence · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Mathematics · Neural dynamics and brain function · Psychology · Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Mind, Body, World
The contents of racialized seeing
To Naturalize is to Differentiate
Nonlinear effects of spatial connectedness implicate hierarchically structured representations in visual working memory
Why Paramecia Don't Have Mental Representations
The ecological approach to perceiving as a foundation for understanding the development of knowing in infancy
Influence of predicate sense on word order in sign languages
Practices and the Direct Perception of Normative States
Gibson's affordances
Affordances Explained
Précis of Action In Perception
Pain without inference
The Failings of Three Event Perception Theories
The Shadow Knows
Action and Interaction
Pragmatic Mental Imagery
Affordance
Vicarious Perception
Pragmatic Representations
Perception
Action
Visual PerceptionAuthor's Note: Original version supported by NEI grant R01 EY 12926‐06; revision supported by NSF grant BCS 1027120/1027259. Correspondence: MK & WE—Department of Psychology, PO Box 400400, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904‐4400 (e‐mail: [email protected], [email protected]). SG—Vision Center Laboratory & Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037 (e‐mail: [email protected]).
Bodies and Other Objects
Cognitive systems and the extended mind
Is vision continuous with cognition?
A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness
Kinematic specification of dynamics as an informational basis for person-and-action perception
Ecological laws of perceiving and acting
Misrepresenting & malfunctioning
The praxiology of perception
The Experience of Presence
Indexing the World? Visual Tracking, Modularity, and the Perception–Cognition Interface
Between Perception and Action
Vision and Visuality in Buddhism and Beyond
Against Generic “Behavior”
Me and My Robot Smiled at One Another
Memory as Sensory Modality, Perception as Experience of the Past
Social phenomena as a challenge to the scaling-up problem
Relating creativity to aesthetics through learning and development
The life-world as the empirical basis of science
Rethinking theories of change in the light of enactive cognitive science
The linguistic fallacy & the complex content of emotion
Interface Theory vs Gibson
Categorizing Phenotypic Plasticity
Some Hallucinations Are Experiences of the Past
Cognitive penetration and informational encapsulation
The structure of intentionality
Promoting climate actions
How do humans want causes to combine their effects? The role of analytically-defined causal invariance for generalizable causal knowledge
Phenomenology and Pragmatism
A model of Occupational Presence
Action-dependent perceptual invariants
The new hybrids
Cognitive penetration of early vision in face perception
Music and affordances
The incommensurability of emergence and modularity in complex systems
Constructivism, Direct Realism and the Nature of Error
Three Arguments Against Methodological Solipsism as a Research Strategy of Psychology
Ecological Psychology and Naturalism
J. J. Gibson’s most radical idea
Some Remarks on a Relational Concept of Mind
When the affordances disappear
Interaction and Representation
Classifying and Clarifying
What Kind of Approach to Language Fits Gibson's Approach to Perception
The motivational role of affect in an ecological model
Why Children Don't Have to Solve the Frame Problems
Methodological Problems in Cognitive Psychology
Perceiving Affordances in Context
The Ecological Approach to Social Perception
Scaffolds for Social Meaning
Gibson's Affordances and Turing's Theory of Computation
A Differentiated Field of Affordances
An Ontology of Affordances
Direct Perception Requires an Animal-Dependent Concept of Specificity and of Information
Heideggerian Meditations on an Alternative Ontology for Ecological Psychology
Turvey’s Two Challenges and Ecological Values-Realizing Theory
Direct Learning
The Agent-Environment Interface
Realism of Confidence and Phenomenological Reports Are Not Congruent Indicators of Modes of Apprehension in Visual Discrimination of Relative Mass
The Experience of Perception and Its Physical Basis as Views of the Relation Between Perceiver and World Perceived
Perception and Aesthetic Appreciation
Evidence for Direct Perception From Cognition in the Wild
Realism of Confidence, Modes of Apprehension, and Variable-Use in Visual Discrimination of Relative Mass
Von Uexküll’s Theory of Meaning and Gibson’s Organism–Environment Reciprocity
Realism and unrealism
Critical Notice
Sub-phenomenology
Representational unification in cognitive science
Radical embodiment in two directions
Recognizing why vision is inferential
A role for abstractionism in a direct realist foundationalism
On some fundamental distinctions of computationalism
How Philosophy Lost Perceptual Expertise
Two theories of the intentionality of perceiving
Representation and computation in a deflationary assessment of Connectionist cognitive science
The interactivist model
Burge on perception and sensation
An all-purpose framework for affordances. Reconciling the behavioral and the neuroscientific stories
Bodily structure and body representation
| Unique citing works | 120 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,67 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2026 (46) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 107 |