Intellectual Journeys in Ecological Psychology

Agnes Szokolszky received her Ph.D. at the Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action at the University of Connecticut, in 1996. She worked at the University of Szeged as Head of the Institute of Psychology and Head of the Cognitive and Neuropsychology Department. Her main research focus is on the Ecological Approach to metaphor and pretend play, critical thinking in psyschology, theoretical issued in cognitive science, and the history of psychology. Catherine Read received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1980. She has taught and conducted research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Miami University, Ohio; the University of Connecticut, and, currently, at Rutgers University and Ithaca College. Her research has centered on the Ecological Approach to novel metaphor and on elaborating Developmental Ecological Psychology. Zsolt Palatinus received his Ph.D. at the Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action at the University of Connecticut, in 2013. He works at the University of Szeged in Hungary. His research focuses on multiscale interactions between the perceiver and the environment as a source of specificity in perception, action, and cognition.

1. The landmarks of the Gibsonian ecological approach to visual perception and the landscape of post-Gibsonian thought. 2. Eleanor J. Gibson – Interview and reflection. 3. Ulric Neisser – Interview and reflection. 4. Nancy deVilliers Rader – Interview and reflection. 5. Robert E. Shaw – Interview and reflection. 6. Michael Turvey – Interview and reflection. 7. William Mace – Interview and reflection. 8. Claudia Carello – Interview and reflection. 9. Reuben Baron – Interview and reflection. 10. David Lee – Interview and reflection. 11. Alan Costall – Interview and reflection. 12. Gunnar Jansson – Interview and reflection. 13. Sverker Runeson – Interview and reflection. 14. Finding and making paths in Ecological Psychology. Developmental trajectories as seen through interviews and reflections. 15. Epilogue: The Cartesian Submariner Learns to Surf. 16. Appendix: Ecological Psychology in photographs.