Editorial: Changing Perspectives on Landscape Perception: Seeking Common Ground Between the Psychological Sciences and the Humanities

Frontiers in Psychology

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Laura Menatti¹  Harry Heft³ 

[1] Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et de Paysage de Bordeaux;UMR5319 Passages UMR;Department of Psychology, Denison University, United States

关键词: landscape;    perception;    ecological psychology;    aesthetics;    philosophy;    affordances;    visual perception;    geography;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00159

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The history of the concept of landscape is intimately tied to interrelated developments in thevisual arts, photography, aesthetics, and the scientific study of visual perception. For a long time,landscape has been typically considered as a visually pleasing view of an expanse in a natural orurban setting (e.g., the so-called veduta; Menatti, 2017). It is usually taken to be a beautiful viewafforded to a spectator, someone who looks on it from a fixed position, and as such, it is commonlyconceptualized in picture-like, or image-based terms (Heft, 2010).Nevertheless, studies both in natural sciences and humanities have questioned a narrow imagebased approach to thinking about landscape. In psychology, philosophy, and cognitive science, forone thing, approaches to visual perception over the past half century have begun to recognize theways in which actions of the body participate in visual experience, and they have challenged thenotion of detached, stationary spectator of the environment. Along with phenomenology (Husserl,1913; Merleau-Ponty, 1962) the idea of perception has evolved to imply the role of the wholebody and not just the eye, the optic tract, and projection areas in the brain. Gibson’s ecologicalapproach to perception was influenced by phenomenological writings, especially by the Gestaltpsychologist (Heft, 2001). The enactive approach in cognitive science (Varela et al., 1991) has beenshaped by how phenomenology as conceived the perceiver as being embedded (live from inside) inthe lifeworld.

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