Studies in perception and action X : fifteenth International Conference on Perception and Action, July 12-17, 2009, Minneapolis, Minnesota / edited by Jeffrey B. Wagman and Christopher C. Pagano.

"Contains research presented at the ICPA XV conference held in Minneapolis, Minnesota from July 12-17, 2009"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Meeting History -- Ch. 1. Action and Coordination -- Nonlinear Attractor Dynamics and Symmetry Breaking in Prism Adaptation and Re-adaptation / Julia J. C. Blau, Damian G. Stephen, Till D. Frank, Michael T. Turvey and Claudia Carello -- Functional Tuning of Action to Task Constraints in Tool-Use: The Case of Stone Knapping / Blandine Bril, Robert Rein and Tetsushi Nonaka -- Variability of Uni-Manual Pendulum Oscillation at and away from Resonance / Dobromir G. Dotov, Damian G. Stephen, Till D. Frank and Michael T. Turvey -- Comparison of Performance of Tray-Carrying Task by Persons with Down Syndrome and Those with Other Forms of Mental Retardation / Shogo Hirata, Hideyuki Okuzumi, Mitsuru Kokubun and Masayuki Kumai -- Observation of Action Slips in a Young Child / Naoya Hirose -- Relationship between Attention and Stepping / Yoshifumi Ikeda, Shogo Hirata, Hideyuki Okuzumi and Mitsuru Kokubun -- Relationship between Stepping and Its Tempo / Yu Kamiyama, Shogo Hirata, Hideyuki Okuzumi and Mitsuru Kokubun -- Dynamics of Motor Performance in Visually Guided Force Production / Nikita A. Kuznetsov and Michael A. Riley -- Microslips in a Manual Placing Task / Ken Yoshida and Thomas A. Stoffregen -- Ch. 2. Interpersonal Coordination -- Perceiving Affordances for a Dyad / Tehran J. Davis, Michael A. Riley, Kevin Shockley, Kimberly Capehart and Justin Fine -- Inter- and Intra-personal Coordination in Autistic and Typically-Developing Children / Robert W. Isenhower, Kerry L. Marsh, Paula Silva, Michael J. Richardson and R. C. Schmidt -- The Influence of Interpersonal Interaction on Postural Coordination Dynamics in a Suprapostural Task / Manuel Varlet, Ludovic Marin, Julien Lagarde and Benoit G. Bardy -- Gaze Coordination between Car Drivers and Passengers: An Observation / Hiroshi Inou, Mamoru Sawada and Hiroyuki Mishima -- Target Distance Influences Interpersonal Postural Coordination / Alison Smith, Christie Pelzer, M. Russell Giveans, Kevin Shockley and Thomas A. Stoffregen -- Ch. 3. Perception and Perceptual Learning -- Discrimination of Surfaces by Touching: Impact of Obstacles Attached to the Fingertip upon Performance / Nobuhiro Furuyama, Hiroyuki Mishima, Shin Maruyama and Masashi Takiyama -- Integration of Visuo-Haptic Information for Judging Object Size / Chia-Hao Lu, Joshua Aman and Juergen Konczak -- Perceiving by Dynamic Touch with and without Hands / Zsolt Palatinus, Claudia Carello and Michael T. Turvey -- Apparent Point of Rotation Manipulation Affects Multimodal Heaviness Perception / Laura Bachus, Kevin Shockley and Michael A. Riley -- Twelve-Month-Olds' Discrimination of Monkey Faces: Evidence for Perceptual Narrowing? / Ross Flom, Melissa Wright, Amanda Phillippi, Tom Beckstead, Jacob Jones, Harrison Allen and Danny Boysen -- Human Sensitivity to Local Taus / Nam-Gyoon Kim and Keonho Shin -- Analysis of User's Action for Perceiving Shapes Using an Active Perception Device / Ryo Mizuno, Kiyohide Ito and Makoto Okamoto -- Improvements in Perceptual Accuracy Scale to Frequency of Feedback about Task Performance / Jeffrey B. Wagman and Dawn M. McBride -- The Influence of Eyeheight and Optic flow on Egocentric Distance Perception / Jonathan Shook, Eliah J. White and Kevin Shockley -- Ch. 4. Perception of Affordances -- Sensitivity to Changes in Action Capabilities / Dilip N. Athreya, Michael A. Riley, Tehran J. Davis and Veronica C. Ramenzoni -- Understanding the Dynamics of Behavioral Transitions in Affordance Experiments / Stacy M. Lopresti-Goodman, Till D. Frank, Michael J. Richardson and Michael T. Turvey -- Differences between American and Chinese Students in Perceiving Multiple Affordances for Common Objects / Lin Ye, Wilson Cardwell, Stephanie Karges, Milena Petrovic and Leonard S. Mark -- Changes in Anterior Deltoid Muscle Activity at the Preferred Critical Boundary for Reaching / Milena Petrovic, Adam Strang and Leonard S. Mark -- Development, Balance and Flexibility as Constraints on Perceiving Affordances / Peter B. Pufall and Kathryn Hobbs -- Ecometrics of Step-Over Height / Masaki Ueno, Shogo Hirata, Hideyuki Okuzumi and Mitsuru Kokubun -- Investigating the Information Used to Detect an Affordance for Maximum Distance Throws / Qin Zhu and Geoffrey Bingham -- Ch. 5. Posture -- A Closed-Loop Controller to Model Postural Coordination / V. Bonnet, Benoit Bardy, P. Fraisse, N. Ramdani, Julien Lagarde and S. Ramdani -- Postural Stabilization of Visual Performance at Sea / Fu-Chen Chen, Yemen Yu, Sebastien Villard and Thomas A. Stoffregen -- Immediate Awareness of the Surrounding Environment in the Form of Optical Pushes / Makoto Inagami and Ryuzo Ohno -- Postural Response to a Suprapostural Task in Children at Risk for Developmental Coordination Disorder / Azizah J. Jor'dan, Michael G. Wade, Ken Yoshida and Thomas A. Stoffregen -- Consequence of Internally Versus Externally Generated Visual Motion on Postural Regulation in a Virtual Environment: The Importance of Perception and Action Rather than Perception and Reaction / Eric Littman, Edward W. Otten and L. James Smart, Jr. -- The Effect of Open vs. Closed-Loop Optic Flow on Visually Induced Motion Sickness / Edward W. Otten and L. James Smart, Jr. -- Preferred Stance Width at Sea / Thomas A. Stoffregen, Yawen Yu, Fu-Chen Chen and Sebastien Villard -- Infants' Visually Induced Postural Sway: The Effect of the Attractiveness of Fixation Mark / Aki Tsuruhara, Yasunobu Katsumata, Michiteru Kitazaki, Akitoshi Hanazawa, So Kanazawa and Masami Yamaguchi -- Body Sway in the Processes of Perceiving Various Visual Environmental Structures / Chih-Mei Yang and Chia-Chun Huang -- Body Sway and Visual Performance at Sea / Yawen Yu, Yasunobu Katsumata and Thomas A. Stoffregen.