Nominator's statement

Gibson's central idea, that structure in stimulation from the environment is the foundation of all perception, is grandly displayed in this insightful book. Recovering structure from stimulation is, in turn, the starting point for much later theorizing in visual perception and crucial to much of computer vision.

comments

• This book profoundly changed WHAT cognitive science is the study of...it eventually lead to Neisser's REJECTION of his "Cognitive Psychology" and instead embracing Gibson's ecological approach. See Gibson's 1979 book too (already nominated). Gibson should be in the top not 100! The future of psychology is becoming increasingly ecological, context-dependent, intrinsically meaningful...Gibsonian thinking, his genius, is the reason for this.

• Gibson should definitely be represented. He opened up the field for scientific considerations of important interactions of the organism and its environment. Because of its date and breadth, this should be the book.