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James J. Gibson, an American psychologist and pioneer in the field of visual perception, explored the intricacies of human vision and perception with groundbreaking research. His ecological approach to psychology revolutionized our understanding of how individuals perceive and interact with the world around them, shaping the course of cognitive science for generations to come.
"The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time."
"I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal."
"There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other."
"Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color."
"The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either."
"What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe."