Gibson's article, "Visually Controlled Locomotion and Visual Orientation in Animals" (1958) is the leading statement of a nonrepresentational, information-based approach to visual control. The core ideas he introduced 40 years ago resurface, explicitly or implicitly, in much contemporary work on perception and action in humans, insects, robots, and autonomous agents. The purpose of this special issue is to assess the continuing pertinence of these insights and illustrate current directions in research on visually controlled locomotion.
Volume
10. Numbers 3 and 4, 1998
Contents: E.J. Gibson, Introduction: Visually Controlled Locomotion and
Orientation. J.J. Gibson, Visually Controlled Locomotion and Visual
Orientation in Animals. W.H. Warren, Jr., Visually Controlled Locomotion: 40
Years Later. D.N. Lee, Guiding Movement by Coupling Taus. M.V. Srinivasan,
Insects as Gibsonian Animals. J.M. Loomis, A.C. Beall, Visually Controlled
Locomotion: Its Dependence on Optic Flow, Three-Dimensional Space Perception,
and Cognition. A.E. Patla, How is Human Gait Controlled by Vision? K.E.
Adolph, M.A. Eppler, Development of Visually Guided Locomotion. G. Schöner,
T.M.H. Dijkstra, J.J. Jeka, Action-Perception Patterns Emerge From Coupling
and Adaptation.
