Eleanor J. Gibson

Eleanor Jack Gibson ( born December 7, 1910 in Peoria, Illinois, USA, † December 30, 2002 in Columbia, South Carolina) was an American developmental psychologist and has dealt mainly with the development of the perception of infants. Moreover, it has also devoted to the psychology of reading. She was married to James J. Gibson, who was also a psychologist.

Gibson studied at Yale University and received her Ph. D. in 1938 there most of her life - since 1949 - she did research at Cornell University.

The most famous experimental design by Gibson is the "visual cliff " ( Gibson & Walk, 1960), with which they examined the depth perception in infants.