As busy as teachers and scholars are, rarely do they find the time to sample widely from the table of scientific inquiry. This book offers the opportunity to do just that. The fourth volume in the "Studies in Perception and Action" series, it contains a collection of posters presented at the Ninth International Conference on Perception and Action, sponsored by the International Society for Ecological Psychology.
Like its predecessor, this volume is a collection of short reports, mostly empirical in nature. The reports are considerably larger than the abstracts presented in the proceedings of many conferences, and provide the authors with opportunities to present arguments, methods, results, and conclusions in condensed forms.
Contents: Preface.Contributors. Part I: Perception. Vision.S.S. Valenti,
L. Sconzo, A. Costall, Perception Of Lifted Weight In Photographs and
Stick-Figure Displays. R. Hoeger, Stimulus Complexity Determined By Fractal
Geometry. G.M. Redding, A.J. Kramen, J.L. Hankins, The Müller-Lyer Illusion
As a Consequency of Picture Perception. J.M. Kennedy, C.D. Green, Inference
and Pattern in Perception Theory. T.R. Alley, A.M. Olson, "Body-Image"
Distortion and Accurancy of Size Perception for Inanimate Objects. I.
Kumazawa, J.M. Kennedy, K. Suzuki, Blur Selectively Affects the Bases for
Alignment: Position and Orientation. C.H. Liu, A. Chaudhuri, Learning Faces
Through Bi-Quantised Pictures. T.R. Alley, Can Temporal Direction Affect
Memory for Pictures of Events? S.H. Creem, M. Wraga, D.R. Proffitt, The
Relevance of Imagined Self-Rotations. B. DeBruyn, M.F. Bardshaw, Predicting
Where and When Hidden Moving Objects Reappear. M.M. Muchisky, Trajectory
Forms as Visual Information in Bounce Events. S. Runeson, P. Juslin, H.
Olsson, Evidence for the Directness of Advanced Information Pickup. S.B.
Flynn, H.F. Russell, D.M. Deron, Magnitude Production of Relative Mass: A
Preliminary Study. C.M. Burns, Measuring Visible Information In Mediated
Environments. F.T.J.M. Zaal, R.C. Schmidt, Visual Perception of Relative
Phase and Phase Variability. G. Huper-Graff, J. Meyer, Judging
Coordinatedness Of Stimuli. L. Li, W.H. Warren, Heading Perception During
Combined Observer Translation and Rotation. B.R. Fajen, N.G. Kim, Robustness
of Heading Perception Along Circular Paths. K.L. Anderson, A.J. Peck, C.
Carello, Rotational Inertia Constrains Perception of Object Length by Sound.
K. Ito, Auditory Interceptive Timing and Familiarity With Acoustic
Environment. M.K. Russell, Acoustic Perception of Aperture Passability. M.K.
Russell, Acoustic Perception of Sound Source Occlusion. L. Brancazio, C.T.
Best, C.A Fowler, Constraints on a Nonspeech Effect. C. Dent-Read, Metaphor
in the Surround: Adult Metaphoric Utterances and the Emergence of Metaphor.
J. Pittenger, J. Jordan, A. Belden, P. Goodspeed, F. Brown, Auditory and
Haptic Information Support Perception of Size. S.C. Pont, A.M.L. Kappers,
J.J. Koenderink, Local Attitudes are the Effective Stimuli for Haptic
Curvature Discrimination. I.M.L.C. Vogels, A.M.L. Kappers, J.J. Koenderink,
Influence of Orientation on the Haptic After-Effect of Cylindrical Survaces.
B. Hughes, The Perceptual Recovery of Texture Gradients By Active Touch. E.L.
Amazeen, Effects of Volume On Perceived Heaviness. G. Mirabella, Haptic
Perception of Block Letters in the Horizontal Plane. Part II:
Perception-Action Coupling.T.A Stoffregen, K. Gorday, Y. Sheng, S.B. Flynn,
Kinematic Specification of Affordances. G. Pepping, F. Li, Perceiving Action
Boundaries in the Volleyball Block. K.M. Gorday, Perceiving Action
Capabilities of Others: Age Effects. J.R. Pijpers, F.C. Bakker, F.
Holsheimer, Fatigue and Reachability. D. Heffernan, J.A. Thomson, Perceiving
What is Reachable During Rapid Growth in Adolescence. A. Szokolszky, Using an
Object as if it Were Another. The Perception and Use of Affordances in
Pretend Object Play. P. Zukow-Goldring, Words Are Not Enough: How Educating
Effectivites and Affordances Fosters the Early Lexicon. J.C. Rutkowska, E.
Baines, Perceiving, Discovering and Constructing Affordances. S.S. Valenti,
K. Wagner, M. Sobel, Possible Informational Bases For the Perception of
Rapport. A. Yonas, R. Ross, M. Erdahl.The Functional Division of Visual
Information Under Induced Motion. A. Blumental, A. Rouse, K.Grandt, L. Mark,
Preferred Citical Boundaries for Reaching in the Vertical Plane. C.C. Pagano,
A Haptic Perturbation To Visually-Guided Reaching. J.K. Graham, M.F.
Bradshaw, A.M. Davis, The Effect of Temporal Delay on Pointing Accuracy in
Adults and Children. P. Magne, Y. Coello, The Influence of Visual Context on
Movement Accuracy is Dependent on Its Location in the Environment. I.
Flascher, F. Zaal, G. Bingham, Measuring Shape and Egocentric Distance
Perception Through Reaching. D.L. Gardner, J. Paasche, H. Edkins, T. Hirons,
L.S. Mark, M.J. Dainoff, Task Constraints on the Preferred Critical Boundary
for Visually-Guided Reaching. E.A. Wickelgren, D.S. McConnell, G.P. Bingham,
Monocular Distance Perception via Forward Versus Lateral Head Movements. J.
van der Kamp, T. Planinsek, G. Savelsbergh, Timing of Interceptive Action in
Children. W.H. Warren, B.A. Kay, The Focus of Expansion is Used To Control
Walking. A.P. Duchon, W.H. Warren, An Ecological Approach to Mobile Robotics.
C.S. Stergiou, K.E. Adolph, M.W. Alibali, A.M. Avolio, C. Cenedella, Social
Expressions in Infant Locomotion: Vocalizations and Gestures on Slopes. M.
Eppler, T. Satterwhite, J. Wendt, K. Bruce, Infants' Responses to a Visual
Cliff and Other Ground Surfaces. J. Wendt, M.Eppler, K. Bruce, Infants'
Ability to Detour Around Apertures and Obstacles. R.P. Grutzmacher, J.T.
Andre, D.A. Owens, Gaze Inclination: A Source of Oculomotor Information for
Distance Perception. M.A. Schmuckler, H.Y. Tsang, Visual-Movement Interaction
in Infant Search. J.A. Stevens, Processing Specificity in Visual and Motor
Imagery. M. Butwill, Is Haptic Space Isotropic? K.G. Donahue, C.C. Pagano,
Perceiving Lengths of Roads Wielded in Different Mediums. M.M. Burke, E.L.
Amazeen, Object Visibility and the Inertia Tensor as Factors in the
Size-Weight Illusion. A. Post, P.J. Beek, Measuring Entropy in Cascade
Juggling. L.J. Smart, R.J. Pagulayan, Motion Sickness Without Imposed Motion.
Part III: Action.J.F. Stins, C.F. Michaels, Intention Determines Oscillatory
Tracking Performance. C.E. Peper, P.J. Beek, The Role of Amplitude in
Frequency-Induced Transitions in Rhythmic Tracking. H. Park, Continuous
Frequency Modulation of Symmetric and Asymmetric Coordination Dynamics. P.J.
Treffner, J.A.S. Kelso, Scale-Invariant Memory During Functional
Stabilization. D.R. Collins, Relative Coordination Reconsidered: A Stochastic
Account. C. Button, S. Bennett, K. Davids, Comparing Discrete and Cyclical
Movement Coordination of Prehension. J.J. Temprado, M. Della-Grasta, M.
Farell, M. Laurent, Expert-Novice Comparison of Coordination Patterns in the
Volleyball Serve. P.G. Amazeen, Learning a New Phase Relation Modifies the
Intrinsic Dynamics. C.M. Craig, D.N. Lee, Control of Sucking in Term and
Preterm Infants. R.C. Schnidt, K. McGregor, The Auditory Coordination of
Between-Person Rhythmic Movements. F. Li, Effect of Dynamic Constraints in
Interceptive Actions. P. Cesari, T. Shiratori, the Active Troque-Angle
Relation During Arm Motion Shows Linearity Even with Changes in the External
Load. B. Pavis, M. Broderick, K. Newell, The Adiabatic Transformation
Hypothesis in a Ball-Bouncing Task. M.A. Riley, S. Mitra, Active Degrees of
Freeedom of Oscillatory Hand Movements. U. Stroop, P. Fitzpatrick, Inertial
Tensor Manipulations of Length Perception by Static Holding. M. Santana,
Minimal Movement and Selective Perception by Dynamic Touch. B.G. Bardy, L.
Marin, R.J. Botsma, The Emergence of Postural Coordination Modes. L. Marin,
Biomechanics as a (Limited) Constraint on Postural Coordination. F. Fouque,
B.G. Bardy, Effects of Postural Stability on Perception-Movement Coupling.
T.A. Stoffregen, L.J. Smart, Postural Stabilization of Visual Fixati
John M. Kennedy, Mark Schmuckler