The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (1979) by J.J. Gibson presents his mature ecological psychology, arguing that perception is direct—organisms perceive affordances in their environment without needing internal representations.
Foundational text of ecological psychology; introduced direct perception and affordances as alternatives to representationalist cognitive science.
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