Jul 1, 2011 · The images of the 1959 visual cliff experiment — the red-and-white checkered surface, the baby hesitating at the edge of a glass-topped drop-off, the beckoning mother — …

The woman behind the visual cliff Eleanor J. Gibson is best remembered for an iconic experiment, but her own story of flexibility in the face of gender discrimination may be an even more …

Together, with her husband, James, the Gibsons developed the Gibsonian ecological theory of development, which highlights the importance of perception, and Eleanor focused on the …

The July 2011 issue of the American Psychological Association’s Monitor on Psychology explores the life and work of psychologist Eleanor Gibson in its Time Capsule section.

Her best-known perception research experiments, published in 1960, involved what she called the visual cliff. The work was done with Richard Walk (1920–1999), a professor at Cornell.

Aug 18, 2023 · Eleanor J. Gibson and Richard D. Walk (1960) investigated the ability of newborn animals and human infants to detect depth. Gibson and Walk tested whether youngsters …

Eleanor J. Gibson is best known in psychology for her classic "visual cliff" studies with babies.

Sep 14, 2024 · She showed us that by watching babies crawl (or not crawl) across a visual cliff, we can gain profound insights into the human mind. Her work continues to inspire researchers, …

The visual cliff, conceived by Gibson and Walk as a test of visual depth perception in dark-reared rats, seemed an appropriate way of addressing the age-old question of whether perception of...

Aug 4, 2023 · Shereen Lehman, MS, is a healthcare journalist and fact checker. She has co-authored two books for the popular Dummies Series (as Shereen Jegtvig). A visual cliff …