This book provides a chapter-by-chapter update to and reflection on of the landmark volume by J. J. Gibson on the Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (1979). Gibsonâs book was presented a pioneering approach in experimental psychology; it was his most complete and mature description of the ecological approach to visual perception. Perception as Information Detection commemorates develops and updates each of the sixteen chapters from Gibsonâs volume. The book brings together some of the foremost perceptual scientists in the field from the United States Europe and Asia to reflect on Gibsonâs original chapters expand on the key concepts discussed and relate this to their own cutting-edge research. This connects Gibsonâs classic with the current state of the field as well as providing a new generation of students with a contemporary overview of the ecological approach to visual perception. Perception as Information Detection is an important resource for perceptual scientists as well as both undergraduates and graduates studying sensation and perception vision cognitive science ecological psychology and philosophy of mind. . Language: English