scholarly journals Did you see that? Dissociating advanced visual information and ball flight constrains perception and action processes during one-handed catching

2013 ◽  
Vol 142 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Panchuk ◽  
Keith Davids ◽  
Alex Sakadjian ◽  
Clare MacMahon ◽  
Lucy Parrington
2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise D. J. de Grave ◽  
Jeroen B. J. Smeets ◽  
Eli Brenner

Norman tries to link the ecological and constructivist approaches to the dorsal and ventral pathways of the visual system. Such a link implies that the distinction is not only one of approach, but that different issues are studied. Norman identifies these issues as perception and action. The influence of contextual illusions is critical for Norman's arguments. We point out that fast (dorsal) actions can be fooled by contextual illusions while (ventral) perceptual judgements can be insensitive to them. We conclude that both approaches can, in principle, be used to study visual information processing in both pathways.


1983 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 451-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry D. Isaacs ◽  
Alfred E. Finch

34 beginning and 16 intermediate players were required to view film clips which showed a player serving. The film was edited so the subject would see only a limited part of the service motion and/or ball flight. The four restricted viewing conditions were as follows: 10 msec, before contact (Prior), 0 msec. (Contact), 15 msec, after contact (Immediate), and 30 msec. after contact (Flight). Based on the limited visual information, the subject indicated on a specially designed score sheet the position in which the serve landed in the deuce service court (both latitude and longitude). Analyses of variance for mean percent correct responses indicated that intermediate players were significantly more successful in plotting the latitude of the ball's position than were the beginners. Longer viewing times significantly improved both groups' ability to predict the terminal location of the ball.


2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silke Paulmann ◽  
Sarah Jessen ◽  
Sonja A. Kotz

The multimodal nature of human communication has been well established. Yet few empirical studies have systematically examined the widely held belief that this form of perception is facilitated in comparison to unimodal or bimodal perception. In the current experiment we first explored the processing of unimodally presented facial expressions. Furthermore, auditory (prosodic and/or lexical-semantic) information was presented together with the visual information to investigate the processing of bimodal (facial and prosodic cues) and multimodal (facial, lexic, and prosodic cues) human communication. Participants engaged in an identity identification task, while event-related potentials (ERPs) were being recorded to examine early processing mechanisms as reflected in the P200 and N300 component. While the former component has repeatedly been linked to physical property stimulus processing, the latter has been linked to more evaluative “meaning-related” processing. A direct relationship between P200 and N300 amplitude and the number of information channels present was found. The multimodal-channel condition elicited the smallest amplitude in the P200 and N300 components, followed by an increased amplitude in each component for the bimodal-channel condition. The largest amplitude was observed for the unimodal condition. These data suggest that multimodal information induces clear facilitation in comparison to unimodal or bimodal information. The advantage of multimodal perception as reflected in the P200 and N300 components may thus reflect one of the mechanisms allowing for fast and accurate information processing in human communication.


Author(s):  
Weiyu Zhang ◽  
Se-Hoon Jeong ◽  
Martin Fishbein†

This study investigates how multitasking interacts with levels of sexually explicit content to influence an individual’s ability to recognize TV content. A 2 (multitasking vs. nonmultitasking) by 3 (low, medium, and high sexual content) between-subjects experiment was conducted. The analyses revealed that multitasking not only impaired task performance, but also decreased TV recognition. An inverted-U relationship between degree of sexually explicit content and recognition of TV content was found, but only when subjects were multitasking. In addition, multitasking interfered with subjects’ ability to recognize audio information more than their ability to recognize visual information.


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