biography
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Gibson, James (Jerome)
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| lived:
| (1904–79)
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| biography:
| Psychologist, born in McConnelsville, Ohio, USA. He studied at Princeton and Edinburgh universities, and taught psychology at Smith College (1928–49) and at Cornell (1949–72). During World War 2 he served as director of the Research Unit in Aviation Psychology for the US air force. His influential theory of vision, described in The Perception of the Visual World (1950), viewed perception as the direct detection of invariances in the world, requiring neither inference nor the processing of information. |
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