Michael T. Turvey is Board of Trustees' Distinguished Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Connecticut and a Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories in Connecticut. He is the recipient of Guggenheim and Catell Fellowships, the American Psychological Association Early Career Award, Fellow of Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP), Bernstein 2009 Prize in Motor Control, SEP Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Psychological Science Lifetime Mentor Award, and two honorary doctorates.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Foundational Concepts

1. What Kinds of Systems Do We Study?
2. Organism-Environment Dualism
3. Direct Perceiving, Indirect Perceiving
4. Simulative, Projective and Locality Assumptions
5. The Mechanistic Hypothesis
6. The Cartesian Program
7. Empiricism and the Man in the Inner Room
8. The Space Enigmas I: Berkeley
9. The Space Enigmas II: Kant, the Nature of Geometry, and the Geometry of Nature
10. The Space Enigmas III: Local Signs and Geometrical Empiricism
11. Doctrines of Sensations and Unconscious Inferences
12. The Space Enigmas. IV: On Learning Space Perception
13. Gestaltism I: Atomism, Anatomism and Mechanistic Order
14. Gestalt Theory II: Fields, Self-organization, and the Invariance Postulate of Evolution
15. Gestalt Theory III: Experience Error, CNS Error, Psycho-neural Isomorphism, Behavioral Environment

Part 2: Computational-Representational Perspective

16. The Computational-Representational Perspective: Preliminaries
17. Pattern Recognition and Representation Bearers
18. Turing Reductionism, Token Physicalism: The Computational System Assumption
19. Reflections on the Physical Symbol System Hypothesis

Part 3: Ecological Perspective

20. Ecology: The Science that Reasons Why
21. Barriers to Ecological Realism
22. Ontology at the Ecological Scale
23. Ecological Optics Primer
24. Perceiving "How to Get About Among Things"
25. The Mechanical Basis for "Getting About Among Things"
26. Strong Anticipation and Direct Perception