Studies in Perception and Action XIV

Preface Meeting History Scientific Committee Contributors Chapter 1: Action and Coordination 1. Different Muscle Synergies Required for the Reconstructions of Muscle Activation Patterns During Point-to-Point Movements With and Without a Rod Raoul M. Bongers, Tim A. Valk, and Leonora J. Mouton 2. Hysteresis Effects When Grasping an Object With Simple Hand Prosthesis Raoul M. Bongers, A. Heerschop, and C.K. van der Sluis 3. Accented Metronome Inhibits Phase Wandering in Auditory-Motor Coordination of Whole-Body Rhythmic Movement Takahide Etani, Akito Miura, Masahiro Okano, Haruka Tanosaki, Masahiro Shinya, and Kazutoshi Kudo 4. Information in Complex Biomechanical Actions: A Linear Discriminant Algorithm Alfredo Higueras-Herbada, David Travieso, Jorge Ibanez-Gijon, and David M. Jacobs 5. The Effect of Spatial Orientation on Auditory-Motor Coordination in Dance-Like Whole-body Movement Akito Miura, Takahide Etani, Kou Mikuni, and Kazutoshi Kudo 6. A Coupled Oscillator Model for Acceleration of a Paired Tapping Through Mutual Timing Adjustment for Synchronization Masahiro Okano, Wataru Kurebayashi, Masahiro Shinya, and Kautoshi Kudo 7. Manipulating the Drawing Direction and the Diameter Tendency of the Archimedean Spiral to Verify the Hysteresis Effect on Movement Pattern Transition Joseph Chang-Chih Shih and Melvin Chih-Mei Yang Chapter 2: Interpersonal Coordination 1. Age and Gender Differences in Intercepting a Moving Traffic Gap in a Virtual Environment H.C. Chung, G.J. Choi, M. Azam, D.M. Kang, and K.C. Cho 2. Sensory Substitution and Walking Toward Targets: An Experiment with Blind Participants Lorena Lobo, Alfredo Higueras-Herbada, David Travieso, David M. Jacobs, Matthew Rodger, and Cathy M. Craig 3. Similarities in Perceptual-Motor Regulation for Stepping onto a Curb and the Long-jump Run Up Steven van Andel, Michael H. Cole, and Gert-Jan Pepping Chapter 3: Perception and Perceptual-Motor Learning 1. Auditory Motor Entrainment to Complex Frequency Rations Cecile J. Bouvet, Manuel Varlet, Simone Dalla Bella, Peter E. Keller, and Benoit G. Bardy 2. An Ecological Perspective on Distrance Perception in an Optical Tunnel Seokhun Kim, Claudia Carello, and Steven J. Harrison 3. Music-Induced Movement Entrainment Increases Movement Stability P. Nijhuis, L. Damm, V. Begel, S. Dalla Bella, and B.G. Bardy 4. The Influence of the Environment on Children's Play Masashi Sumiya Chapter 4: Perception of Affordances 1. Perception of Affordances in Children and Adults while Crossing the Road Between Moving Vehicles M. Azam, G.J. Choi, W.D. Kim, J.H. Lee, and H.C. Chung 2. Affordance for Reaching Behavior: Rats Change Limb Preferences while Reaching for Food Felipe Cabrera and Salvador Ortega 3. Testing the Functional Fidelity of a Panoramic Image in the Perception of Spaciousness Makoto Inagami 4. Schizophrenia as a Self-Disorder and Impaired Capacity to Perceive Affordances Hak Boon Kim, Juhun Kim, Emese Foldesi, and Nam-Gyoon Kim 5. Embodied Perception with Extended Body: Visuo-Motor Coupling during Driving through Aperture Kazutoshi Kudo, Ryo Torigoe, Masakazu Nemoto, Masahiro Shinya, Mamoru Sawada, and Hiroyuki Mishima 6. The Impact of Constraints on Visual Exploratory Behavior in Football Thomas McGuckian, Georgia Askew, Daniel Greenwood, Daniel Chalkley, Michael Cole, and Gert-Jan Pepping 7. The Need for an Affordance-Based Evaluation Framework for Architectural Design Mohsen Mohammadi, Gert-Jan Pepping, Mahmoud Reza Saghafi, and Hamid Nadimi 8. Carrying Their Own Weight: Dogs Perceive Dynamically Changing Affordances for Reaching Jeffrey B. Wagman, Matthew D. Langley, and Valeri Farmer-Dougan 9. Perception of Maximal Volleyball Overhand Serve-Ability: Effects of Athletic Experience Jyun Siang Wang, Meng-Fan Kou, Ting-Yi Wu, Yu-Sian Su, and Chih-Hui Chang Chapter 5: Postural Control and Coordination 1. Mapping Individual Postural Signatures A. Coste, P. Slowinski, K. Tsaneva-Atanasova, Benoit G. Bardy, and Ludovic Marin 2. Time-to-Collision Estimates during Congruent Visuo-Vestibular Stimulations J. Landrieu, J. Abdur-Rahim, T. Sarrazin, and B.G. Bardy 3. The Effects of Moving Room Frequency on Posture Control and Motion Sickness Ting-Yi Wu, Wei-Jhong Zeng, Hui-Ching Hsu, Meng-Fan Kou, and Chih-Hui Chang 4. Intrinsic Dynamics in the Acquisition Process for the Turning-Over Movement in Infancy Naoki Yamamoto Author Index Keyword Index