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James J. Gibson [1904-1979] American
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Psychologist


James Jerome Gibson, was an American psychologist who received his Ph.D. from Princeton University's Department of Psychology, and is considered one of the most important 20th century psychologists in the field of visual perception.

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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. Space
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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. Space
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The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.
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The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time. Space
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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.
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Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.
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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.
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The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.
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A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.
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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.
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