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- Title
Perceiver as polar planimeter: Direct perception of jumping, reaching, and jump-reaching affordances for the self and others.
- Authors
Thomas, Brandon J.; Hawkins, Matthew M.; Nalepka, Patrick
- Abstract
Runeson (Scandanavian Journal of Psychology 18:172-179, <xref>1977</xref>) suggested that the polar planimeter might serve as an informative model system of perceptual mechanism. The key aspect of the polar planimeter is that it registers a higher order property of the environment without computational mediation on the basis of lower order properties, detecting task-specific information only. This aspect was posited as a hypothesis for the perception of jumping and reaching affordances for the self and another person. The findings supported this hypothesis. The perception of reaching while jumping significantly differed from an additive combination of jump-without-reaching and reach-without-jumping perception. The results are consistent with Gibson’s (The senses considered as perceptual systems, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA; Gibson, The senses considered as perceptual systems, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, <xref>1966</xref>; The ecological approach to visual perception, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA; Gibson, The ecological approach to visual perception, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, <xref>1979</xref>) theory of information—that aspects of the environment are specified by patterns in energetic media.
- Subjects
PLANIMETERS; INFORMATION theory; VISUAL perception; ADDITIVE combinatorics; MEDIATION &; conciliation services
- Publication
Psychological Research, 2018, Vol 82, Issue 4, p665
- ISSN
0340-0727
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00426-017-0858-6