The action-specific perception account holds that people perceive the environment in terms
of their ability to act in it. In this view, for example, decreased ability to climb a hill because of …

The book you are about to read is about research that asks questions like" How do our
senses operate?"" What is the connection between nervous system activity and perception?" …

A tidal wave of recent research purports to have discovered that higher-level states such as
moods, action capabilities, and categorical knowledge can literally and directly affect how …

A chief goal of perception is to help us navigate our environment. According to a rich and
ambitious theory of spatial perception, the visual system achieves this goal not by aiming to …

Experiments take place in a physical environment but also a social environment.
Generalizability from experimental manipulations to more typical contexts may be limited by …

Survival for any organism, including people, is a matter of resource management. To ensure
survival, people necessarily budget their resources. Spatial perceptions contribute to …

There is controversy over the existence, nature, and cause of error in egocentric distance
judgments. One proposal is that the systematic biases often found in explicit judgments of …

Im Gegensatz zu klassischen, amodalen Kognitionstheorien, die das Gehirn als zentrale
Instanz mentaler Repräsentationen und Kognition ansehen, postulieren Embodied …

Haptic information significantly improves human awareness of objects in virtual reality. One
way of presenting this information is via encountered-type haptic feedback. An advantage of …

Whereas most sensory information is coded on a logarithmic scale, linear expansion of a
limited range may provide a more efficient coding for the angular variables important to …