Author: Gibson, Eleanor J.
Hardback; Book
152 pages
Published: July 2001
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc
ISBN: 0805839496

This is a brief, 128-page personal history and intellectual autobiography of Eleanor Gibson, a ground-breaking research psychologist who was influential in the founding of the theory of perceptual development. It is also a biography of her husband, James J. Gibson, who was a major perceptual theorist and the founder of the ecologically-oriented theory of perception. This is the story oftheir lives together and how each came to make their particular contributions.This book will be of interest to people who study perception, perceptual development, infancy, developmental psychology, and the history of psychology. It will also appeal to the hundreds of graduate students nurtured by the Gibsons during their decades at Cornell University.This work is a personal history and intellectual autobiography of Eleanor Gibson, the research psychologist who was influential in the founding of the theory of perceptual development. It is also a biography of her husband, James J. Gibson, who was a major perceptual theorist.