This volume, a posterbook based on the seventh biennial Conference of the International Society for Ecological Psychology, is a collection of compact empirical and/or theoretical articles on the study of perception and action.
Contents: Preface. Section I: Action.Part 1: Posture and Locomotion.V.
Déchelette, Y. Guiard, Dynamic and Postural Preparation for Tennis Strokes:
An Analysis of Stance in Professional Players. A. Delorme, J-Y. Frigon, M-C.
Grothe, Postural Reactions to a Moving Environment: Influence of Ageing in
Adults. L. Mouchnino, M-L. Mille, M. Cincera, A. Bardot, A. Delarque,
Weight-Shifting Strategy in Below-Knee Amputees During Lateral Raising of the
Leg. K. Gorday, M. Stroop, K. Adolph, E. Thelen, Toddlers' Postural Control
on Different Surfaces. F. Eves, Contributions of Peripheral and Central
Vision to Long Jumping. F. Danion, M. Bonnard, J. Pailhous,How Can Human Gait
Be Adapted to an Imbalance Between Flexion and Extension Forces? Part 2:
Interlimb Coordination.P. Amazeen, The Effect of Frequency Detuning on
Learning to Stabilize a Dynamically Unstable Phase Relation. E. Amazeen,
Experimental Control of the Nonlinear Drift of Coordination Equilibria. W.
Byblow, Phase Attractive Dynamics and Performance Asymmetries in Bimanual
Coordination. R. Carson, W. Byblow, B. Abernethy, J. Summers, Inherent and
Incidental Constraints Upon Intentional Switching Between Patterns of
Bimanual Coordination. D. Collins, The Detuning Factor in Elementary
Coordination Dynamics. S. Mitra, P. Amazeen, Breaking the Symmetry Between
Spatial and Joint Phase Space in Interlimb Coordination. B. Steenbergen, W.
Hulstijn, A. de Vries, M. Berger, One- and Two-Handed Reaching and Grasping
in Subjects With Spastic Hemiparesis: Asymmetry Effects. D. Sternad, E.
Saltzman, Dynamics of 1:2 Interlimb Coordination in Rhythmic Movement. R. van
Emmerik, R. Wagenaar, Tremor and Symmetry Properties in Bimanual Coordination
in Parkinson's Disease. T. Ferrand, Y. Guiard, Fitts' Law in Cooperative
Two-Person Aiming. B. O'Brien, R. Schmidt, The Dynamics of Unintentional
Interpersonal Entrainment. Part 3: Control of Arm Movement.P. Beek, L. Peper,
A. Post, J. Reijnen,Orbital Stability of Rhythmic Forearm Movements. D.
Mottet, M-A. Dupuy, M-M. Ramanantsoa, B. Pavis, D. Artus, H. Ripoll, A
Task-Dynamic Approach to Throwing Skills. P. Treffner, S. Kelso, Functional
Stabilization of Unstable Fixed-Points. C. Volman, R. Geuze, Development of
Temporal Stability in Unimanual Perception-Action Coupling. D. Mottet, R.
Bootsma, A Dynamical Model for Fitts' Task. R. Schmidt, D. Corey, P.
Fitzpatrick, M. Riley, The Oscillatory Basis of Fitts' Law. M. Sasaki, H.
Mishima, K. Suzuki, M. Ohkura, Observations on Micro-Exploration in Everyday
Activities. S. Spellerberg, W. Spijkers, Visual Guidance of Discrete Aiming
Movements. R. Wimmers, G. Savelsbergh, P. Beek, B. Hopkins, Preliminary
Evidence for a Developmental Transition from Reaching to Grasping Proper. F.
Zaal, P. van Wieringen, Predetermined or Emergent Timing in Reaching to Pick
Up a Moving Object. A. Bateman, J. Riddoch, G. Humphreys, S. Townsend, D.
Francis, Hemisphere Specialization for Action Systems? D. Sternad, S. Schaal,
C. Atkeson, Batting of a Ball: Dynamics of a Rhythmic Skill. F. Melo,
Emotional State Effects on the Control of Precision Movement. Section II:
Action - Perception Coupling.Part 1: Affordances.L. Mark,Perceiving the
Preferred Critical Boundary for an Affordance. O. Flascher, R. Shaw, E.
Kadar, T. Aromin, Intentional Perceptual Scaling Means pi(symbol) =
1. R.
Pijpers, F. Bakker, Perceiving Conflicting Affordances. J. Barreiros, P.
Silva, Hand Size and Grasping in Infants. C. Palmer, A. Chinitz, M. Haven, E.
Greines, J. Chandler, Preschoolers' Accuracy Judging and Jumping Distances.
S. Flynn, C. Henderson, The Role of Object-Actor Relative Motion in the
Perception of Caught Weight. T. Stoffregen, S. Yang-Yi, K. Gorday, Perceiving
Affordances for Another Person's Actions. Part 2: Laws of Control.B. Bardy,
W. Warren, B. Kay, Motion Parallax Is Used to Control Posture During Walking.
B. Frey, An Active Control Paradigm for the Study of Heading Perception. L.
Marin, Supra-Postural Control in a Rotary Optical Flow. J. Wann, S. Rushton,
D. Lee, Can You Control Where You Are Heading When You Are Looking at Where
You Want to Go? A. Boyadjian, Timing in Relay Running. A. Durey, M-M.
Ramanantsoa, A Quantitative Study of Parameters of Control in Approaching the
Water Ski Ramp. V. Fayt, Visual Timing of a Striking Action Under Varying
Approach Conditions. N-G. Kim, J. Effken, How the Future Is Specified: A
Hypothesis. F-X. Li, M. Laurent, Intensity Coupling in Interceptive Tasks.
F-X. Li, Intensity Coupling in Peripheral Vision. T. Stoffregen, C.
Henderson, M. Sasaki, Varying the t(symbol)-Margin. M. Mulder, E. Theunissen,
H. van der Vaart, Perspective Flight-Path Displays and Time-to-Wall-Crossing.
J. Wann, S. Rushton, Grasping the Impossible: Stereoscopic Virtual Balls. R.
van der Weel, A. van der Meer, J. Hoff, R. Ingvaldsen, Perceptual Control of
Force in Slalom Skiing. Part 3: Representation.M-A. Amorim, J. Loomis, S.
Fukusima, Spatial Updating of Object Shape During Real and Imagined Viewpoint
Change Following Visual Preview. S. Chow, Speech Acts and Their Emplotment.
F. Gaunet, C. Thinus-Blanc, Exploratory Patterns and Reactions to Spatial
Change: The Role of Early Visual Experience. J. Glicksohn, I. Balmor-Braun,
J. Bar-Ziv, M. Myslobodsky, Spatial Orientation and Pineal Calcification. Y.
Rossetti, C. Régnier, Representations in Action: Pointing to a Target with
Various Representations. M. Gonzales, E. Alves, A. Sette, Self-Organization
in the Development of Representation-Action Couplings. Part 4: Development.R.
Morgan, P. Rochat, The Perception of Self-Produced Leg Movement in Self-
Versus Object-Oriented Contexts by 3-5-Month-Old Infants. A. Ledebt, Head
Movement Organization During the First Year of Independent Walking. J. Rose,
B. Bertenthal, A Longitudinal Study of the Visual Control of Posture in
Infancy. B. Vereijken, K. Adolph, M. Denny, Y. Fadl, S. Gill, A. Lucero,
Development of Infant Crawling: Balance Constraints on Interlimb
Coordination. A. Davis, G. Bremner, Ecological Theory and Experimental
Studies of Children's Drawings. G. Bremner, Perception, Action, and the
Development of Knowledge in Infancy. Part 5: Learning.A. van der Meer, R. van
der Weel, Keeping the Arm in the Limelight: The Functional Significance of
Neonatal Arm Movements. S. Verschueren, S. Swinnen, R. Dom, Interlimb
Coordination in Patients with Parkinson's Disease: Learning Capabilities and
the Importance of Augmented Visual Information. G. Redding, B. Wallace,
Contributions of Motor Control and Spatial Alignment to Prism Adaptation. D.
Dinnel, L. Lippman, Familiarization and Rule Generation in a Transformed
Perceptual-Motor Task. C. Dominguez, R. Hutton, J. Flach, D. McKellar,
Perception-Action Coupling in Endoscopic Surgery: A Cognitive-Task Analysis
Approach. J. Romack, Information in Visual Event Perception and Its Use in
Observational Learning. Section III: Perception.Part 1: Mechanical
Patterns.G. Burton, M-V. Santana, C. Carello, Haptic Decomposition Is
Anchored in the Inertia Tensor. T-C. Chan,Haptic Perception of Rod Length: A
Case for Relative Realism. A. Peck, Perceiving the Length of One Rod by Means
of Another. S. Pont, A. Kappers, J. Koenderink, Haptic Discrimination of
Curved Strips. R. Schellingerhout, W. Beyers, A. Smitsman, G. van Gal
Benoit G. Bardy, Reinoud J. Bootsma, Yves Guiard, Beniot G. Bardy