When1: 1950
When2: 1979
Who: James Jerome Gibson [Gibson, James Jerome]
What: psychologist
Where: USA
works\ Perception of the Visual World [1950]; Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems [1966]; Ecological Approach to Visual Perception [1979]
Detail: He lived 1904 to 1979. He studied visual shape and motion perception in natural conditions, when observer moved freely while objects were still, or objects moved while observer was still {visual flow, Gibson}.
Higher-order object features can be invariant during motion or rotation. Perception involves acquiring such information from ambient sensations. Sense qualities provide motion lines {flow line} and texture gradients {ecological optics}. People seem to perceive such features without visual computation.
People can adapt to distorting lenses but slightly overadapt.
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