PROGRAM OF THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PERCEPTION AND ACTION (ICPA-8): SYMPOSIA AND ORGANIZERS
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SUNDAY, JULY 9
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18:00 Registration and 'Get Together'
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MONDAY, JULY 10
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8:30 Opening
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Symposium " The acquisition of perceptuo-motor skills:
the current status of ecological developmental theories "
Organizers: Blandine BRIL & Audrey VAN DER MEER
1. Understanding change in infant skill acquisition
Karen E. ADOLPH and Robert S. SIEGLER
2. Dynamics in development
Beatrix VEREIJKEN
3. Development is cultural learning
John PICKERING
4. Beyond perception and action, what develops? Self-awareness
in a meaningful environment
Philippe ROCHAT
12:10 Lunch and poster session
14:00 Symposium " Event dynamics perception: collisions and beyond "
Organizers: Steve FLYNN & Thomas STOFFREGEN
1. Experimental quality on a collision course Sverker RUNESON
2.Amodal completion in intrasaccadic motion: Stimulus or event?
Bruce BRIDGEMAN, Heiner DEUBEL, and Werner SCHNEIDER
3. Object dynamics and the anticipatory modulation of grip force
Alan WING, Randy FLANAGAN, and James TRESILIAN
4. Issues in the visual perception of caught weight
Steve FLYNN, Thomas A. STOFFREGEN, and Jay SMART
15:40 Coffee
16:00 Symposium " Human factors "
Organizer: Kim VICENTE
1. Perceptually-based displays can improve monitoring and control:
Will what they teach transfer to the use of traditional displays?
Judith A. EFFKEN, Nam-Gyoon KIM, and Robert E. SHAW
2. Some constraints on an ecological theory of strategic action
Alex KIRLIK
3. Ecological design and telepresence:
preserving space-function-distance relationships
Bill BUXTON
17:40 Break
18:00 Evening discussion and poster session
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TUESDAY, JULY 11
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8:00 Coffee
8:30 Symposium " Ecological acoustics "
Organizers: Lawrence ROSENBLUM & Rainer GUSKI
1. Ecological acoustics: Which ecology? What acoustics?
James A. BALLAS
2. The auditory categorisation of the sound of falling wooden blocks
Stef DECOENE
3. Studies on the auditory perception of impending collision
Andreas HELLMANN
4.Acoustic information for imminence of object pass
Terri ERWIN
10:10 Coffee
10:30 Symposium "Rhythmic and discrete movement:
The challenge of a unified account"
Organizers: Yves GUIARD & Gregor SCHONER
1. Fitts' law in the rhythmic versus discrete case:
Chronometric and kinematic data
Yves GUIARD
2. On rhythmic and discrete synergies:
Current theories and new directions
Michael T. TURVEY
3. Imitation of rhythmical patterns:
Symbolic and direct mediation between perception and action
Stefan VOGT
12:10 Lunch and poster session
14:00 Symposium " The visual perception of biological motion "
Organizer: Maggie SHIFFRAR
1. The global perception of biological motion across time
Maggie SHIFFRAR
2. Perception of biological motion patterns in unusual orientations
Marina A. PAVLOVA
3. Perception of biological motions by infants
Bennett L. BERTENTHAL
4. Motor-perceptual interactions
Paolo VIVIANI
15:40 Coffee
16:00 Symposium " Intrinsic dynamics of pathological motor patterns "
Organizer: Juergen KONCZAK
1. Interlimb coupling in hemiplegic CVA patients
Charles B. WALTER and Christine CUNNINGHAM
2. Effects of L-DOPA administration and visual cues
on the kinematics of Parkinsonian gait
Daniel R. MESTRE, Carien van den BRAND,
Olivier BLIN, and Jean Philippe AZULAY
3. Dynamics of movement coordination and tremor
during gait in Parkinson's disease
Richard E. A. van EMMERIK and Robert C. WAGENAAR
4. Central timing mechanisms in Parkinson's disease:
On the control of repetitive lip- and finger movements
Juergen KONCZAK
17:40 Break
18:00 Poster session
19:00 Bouillabaisse session
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 12
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8:00 Coffee
8:30 Symposium " Interaction between perception of self-motion,
object-motion and layout "
Organizers: Valerie CORNILLEAU-PERES & William WARREN
1. Judgements of object motion and ego-motion Albert van den BERG and Eli BRENNER
2. Visual control of posture
Stan GIELEN and Tjeerd DIJKSTRA
3. Neural mechanisms for detecting object motion,
self motion, and time-to-collision
Barrie J. FROST
10:10 Coffee
10:30 Symposium " Perception-action coupling and learning in sport "
Organizers: Benoit BARDY, Jean-Jacques TEMPRADO & Michel LAURENT
1. Coordination and control in volley-ball serve:
A preliminary study
Jean-Jacques TEMPRADO, Martin FARRELL,
Michel LAURENT, and Muriel DELLA-GRASTA
2. Multispecification: No choice
Gilles MONTAGNE, Michel LAURENT, and Alain DUREY
3. Learning to hit accelerating objects
Reinoud J. Bootsma and Valerie FAYT
4. Prospective control in somersaulting
Benoit G. Bardy
12:10 Lunch and poster session
14:00 Annual Meeting of the International Society for
Ecological Psychology (ISEP)
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Symposium " Motion control in virtual environments:
Empirical and applied approaches "
Organizer: John WANN
1. Time-to-passage and time-to-contact judgments in
non-constant optical flow fields
Mary K. KAISER and Heiko HECHT
2. Time-to-wall-crossing (TWC) and perspective flight
path displays
Max MULDER, Hans C. van der VAART, and Erik THEUNISSEN
3. Virtually controlled locomotion
William H. WARREN, Jr.
4. Controlling steering and braking during simulated
and real driving
David N. LEE, John P. WANN, and Simon K. RUSHTON
17:40 Break
18:00 Evening discussion and poster session
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THURSDAY, JULY 13
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8:00 Coffee
8:30 Symposium " The emergent nature of affordance
in social interaction "
Organizers: Jerry GINSBURG & Jim GOOD
1. Introduction and overview
James M. GOOD
2. Affordances in human learning and development
Edward S. REED
3. Object-affordances guiding mother-child interaction
L. van LEEUWEN, R. KAUFMANN-HAYOZ, F. KAUFMANN, and D. WALTHER
4. Affordances are relationships
Alan FOGEL
5. Discussion: The joint creation and detection of affordances
Jerry P. GINSBURG
10:10 Coffee
10:30 Symposium " Is picture perception special ? "
Organizer: Hal SEDGWICK
1. Illusions and pictorial representation
Barbara GILLAM
2. Perceiving layout in pictures and natural scenes
James E. CUTTING
3. Visual perception of events and action from
kinematic (video) and static (photographic) displays
Alan P. COSTALL and S. Stavros VALENTI
4. Picture perception is on a continuum with
direct perception
Harold A. SEDGWICK and Andrea L. NICHOLLS
12:10 Lunch and poster session
14:00 Symposium " Visually Guided Reaching "
Organizers: Reinoud BOOTSMA & Geoffrey BINGHAM
1. Environmental pitch, pointing, and orienting
Arnold E. STOPER and Abigail BAUTISTA
2. Picking up a moving object: Emergent timing in the
reaching movement
Frank T. J. M. ZAAL, Reinoud J. BOOTSMA, and Piet C.W. van WIERINGEN
3. Monocular perception of egocentric distance via
head movement and its use in guiding a reach
Geoffrey P. BINGHAM and Christopher C. PAGANO
15:40 Coffee
16:00 Symposium " Asymmetries in coordination:
Dynamical perspectives "
Organizer: Richard CARSON
1. Asymmetrical coupling in multifrequency tapping:
Fast hand dominates slow hand
Lieke PEPER, Peter J. BEEK, and Piet C. W. van WIERINGEN
2. Asymmetry effects in subjects with spastic hemiparesis
Bert STEENBERGEN, Wouter HULSTIJN,
Aviva DE VRIES, and Maria BERGER
3. Nonlinear dynamics of bimanual laterality
Paul J. TREFFNER
4. Asymmetries in coordination: Constraints on dynamic stability
Winston D. BYBLOW, Romeo CHUA, Richard G. CARSON,
and Michael KHAN
17:40 Break
18:00 Poster session
19:00 Reception hosted by the City of Marseille
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FRIDAY, JULY 14
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8:00 Coffee
8:30 Symposium " Representation, action and the development of
representation-action couplings "
Organizer: John RIESER
1. Object representations and infants reaching for objects
in the dark Rachel
K. CLIFTON
2. Planning and perceiving as complementary processes
in the guidance of action
Claes H. von HOFSTEN
3. Locomotion and the organization of knowledge
Herbert L. PICK
4. Young children's knowledge of changing perspective
when locomoting through imagined surroundings and
manipulating imagined objects
John J. RIESER
5. Discussion
James A. THOMSON
10:10 Coffee
10:30 Symposium " Affordance, action and value:
A post-modern perspective "
Organizer: John PICKERING
1. Beyond goals:
The place of values in a world of postmodern affordances
Bert H. HODGES
2. An ecological approach to intelligence
John T. SANDERS
3. Propagating cultural knowing
Patricia ZUKOW-GOLDRING
4. Gibsonian and quantum mechanical perspectives on the
evolution of perceptual systems
Endre E. KADAR, Robert E. SHAW, and Oded M. FLASCHER
12:10 Lunch and poster session
14:00 Symposium " Amodal perceptual organization of spoken events "
Organizer: Robert REMEZ
1. Effects of listener expectation on eye movement behavior
during audiovisual perception
Eric VATIKIOTIS-BATESON, Inge-Marie EIGSTI,
Sumio YANO, Kevin G. MUNHALL, and Philip RUBIN
2. Read my lips: Where? How? When? And ... so what?
Christian BENOIT, Christian ABRY, Marie-Agnes CATHIARD,
Thierry GUIARD-MARIGNY, and Tahar LALLOUACHE
3. Modality matters
Lynne E. BERNSTEIN
4. What role may amodal event informatin play in infants'
perception of non-native versus native phonetic contrasts
Catherine T. BEST
5. Articulatory dynamics specified across modalities
Lawrence D. ROSENBLUM
15:40 Coffee
16:00 Symposium " Haptic information for spatial perception "
Organizer: Patrick CABE
1. Left/right differences in object holding and motor skills
in 6-month-old infants
Arlette STRERI
2. Spatial perception by dynamic touch
Christopher C. PAGANO
3. Distal touch: Space, haptics and orientation
John KENNEDY, Guiseppe MIRABELLA, and Akalya NAVARATNAM
4. Haptic distal spatial perception mediated by strings
Patrick A. CABE
17:40 Break
18:00 Poster session
19:00 Conference banquet and Bastille night