Jeffrey B. Wagman, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at Illinois State University. His research focuses on perception of affordances. He is a recipient of the Illinois State University Outstanding University Researcher Award and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Ecological Psychology.Julia J. C. Blau, Ph. D. is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Central Connecticut State University. She earned her doctorate in ecological psychology from the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on the fractality of event perception, as well as the ecological approach to film perception.

• Table of ContentsList of ContributorsForewordPrefaceIntroductionPart One The Environment to Be PerceivedChapter 1. The Third Sense of EnvironmentEdward Baggs and Anthony ChemeroChapter 2. The Triad of Medium, Substance, And Surfaces for The Theory of Further ScrutinyTetsushi NonakaChapter 3. Ecological Interface Design Inspired By ‘The Meaningful Environment’Christopher C. Pagano & Brian DayChapter 4. Challenging the Axioms of Perception: The Retinal Image and The Visibility Of LightClaudia Carello & Michael T. TurveyPart Two. The Information for Visual Perception.Chapter 5. Getting into The Ambient Optic Array and What We Might Get Out of ItWilliam M. MaceChapter 6. The Challenge of An Ecological Approach to Event Perception: How to Obtain Forceful Control From Forceless InformationRobert Shaw & Jeffrey Kinsella-ShawChapter 7. The Optical Information for Self-Perception in DevelopmentAudrey L. H. van der Meer & F. R. (Ruud) van der WeelChapter 8. A Guided Tour of Gibson’s Theory of AffordancesJeffrey B. WagmanPart Three. Visual PerceptionChapter 9. Perceiving Surface Layout: Ground Theory, Affordances, and the Objects of PerceptionWilliam H. WarrenChapter 10. Acting in Perceiving: Experiments on Perception of Motion in The World and Movements of The Self, An UpdateL. James Smart Jr., Justin A. Hassebrock, & Max A. TeafordChapter 11. Revisiting "The Discovery of The Occluding Edge and Its Implications For Perception" 40 Years OnHarry HeftChapter 12. Looking with The Head and EyesJohn M. FranchakChapter 13. James Gibson’s Ecological Approach to Locomotion and Manipulation: Development and Changing AffordancesKaren E. Adolph, Justine E. Hoch, and Ori OssmyChapter 14. Information and Its Detection: The Consequences of Gibson’s Theory of Information PickupBrandon J. Thomas, Michael A. Riley, & Jeffrey B. WagmanPart Four. Depiction. Chapter 15. The Use, And Uses of DepictionThomas A. StoffregenChapter 16. Revisiting Ecological Film TheoryJulia J. C. Blau

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