TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface xi
Introduction xiii
Introduction to the Classic Edition xvii
PART I
The Environment to be Perceived 1
1 The Animal and the Environment 3
2 Medium, Substances, Surfaces 12
3 The Meaningful Environment 28
PART II
The Information for Visual Perception 39
4 The Relationship Between Stimulation and
Stimulus Information 41
5 The Ambient Optic Array 58
6 Events and the Information for Perceiving Events 85
7 The Optical Information for Self-Perception 104
8 The Theory of Affordances 119
PART III
Visual Perception 137
9 Experimental Evidence for Direct Perception: Persisting Layout 139
10 Experiments on the Perception of Motion in the World and Movement of the Self 162
11 The Discovery of the Occluding Edge and Its Implications for Perception 180
12 Looking with the Head and Eyes 193
13 Locomotion and Manipulation 213
14 The Theory of Information Pickup and Its Consequences 227
PART IV
Depiction 253
15 Pictures and Visual Awareness 255
16 Motion Pictures and Visual Awareness 279
Conclusion 290
Appendix 1: The Principal Terms Used in Ecological Optics 294
Appendix 2: The Concept of Invariants in Ecological Optics 297
Bibliography 299
Index 305