PROGRAM OF THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PERCEPTION AND ACTION (ICPA-8): SYMPOSIA AND ORGANIZERS
_________________________________ SUNDAY, JULY 9 _________________________________ 18:00 Registration and 'Get Together' _________________________________ MONDAY, JULY 10 _________________________________ 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 _________________________________ TUESDAY, JULY 11 _________________________________ 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 _________________________________ WEDNESDAY, JULY 12 _________________________________ 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 _________________________________ THURSDAY, JULY 13 _________________________________ 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 _________________________________ FRIDAY, JULY 14 _________________________________ 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