Polemnia G Amazeen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5140696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Polemnia G Amazeen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Polemnia G |
| FAMILY NAME | Amazeen |
| SIGNATURE | AMAZEEN P G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8777-3377 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ecological Psychology as a Lawful Science
Advancing Turvey’s Legacy
Affordances Guide Choice Behavior between Equal Schedules of Reinforcement in Rats
Operant choice theories pose that behavior distribution between options is ruled by the consequences related with these options. Evidence suggests that rats’ performance is attuned to the affordances that the operant setting provides, such as lever height. Our aim was to explore in rats whether lever press distribution was influenced by the affordances furnished by two levers. Lever pressing was reinforced in two concurrent equal variable-ratio s…
A Systems Approach to Perception and Action
On the 50th anniversary of its publication, we look back on some of the intellectual contributions of Gibson's (1966) The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems. This work is often seen as contributing a new perspective to our understanding of the 5 senses. In this paper, we explore another intellectual contribution: Gibson's treatment of perception–action as an irreducible, functional system. We review select examples of systems thinking from t…
Dynamical Analyses for Developmental Science
Dynamical systems theory is becoming more popular in social and developmental science. However, unfamiliarity with dynamical analysis techniques remains an obstacle for developmentalists who would like to quantitatively apply dynamics in their own research. The goal of this article is to address this issue by clearly and simply presenting several analytical techniques for the study of dynamics. We placed emphasis on the use of dynamical analysis …
Perceptual Constraints on Frequency Ratio Performance in Motor-Respiratory Coordination
In motor-respiratory coordination, people typically maintain frequency ratios that are from lower levels of a mathematical structure known as the Farey tree. A hypothesized mechanism for motor-respiratory coordination is the visceral piston (Bramble & Carrier, 1983 Bramble, D. M. and Carrier, D. R. 1983. Running and breathing in mammals.. Science, 219: 251–256. [Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar])—mechanical loading of the…
How Do Children Control Rate, Amplitude, and Coordination Stability During Bimanual Circle Drawing
Coordination instability (e.g., weak coupling strength) in young children may cause them to control some aspects of coordination in a different manner than adults. This experiment investigated the influence of rate and amplitude on bimanual coordination stability across development (4-, 6-, and 8-year-olds, and adults). Participants traced circles of different amplitudes (5, 10, 15, and 20 cm) while increasing movement rate twice during the trial…
Eye Movements and the Selection of Optical Information for Catching
The direction of gaze during a single-ball throwing and catching task was analyzed to generate hypotheses regarding the optical information that participants used. Five intermediate and 5 expert jugglers threw and caught a single ball continuously with 1 hand while wearing a head-mounted eye tracker to monitor their direction of gaze. Participants were instructed to throw the ball at 3 self-paced frequencies: preferred, one half of preferred, and…
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Eye Movements and the Selection of Optical Information for Catching
The direction of gaze during a single-ball throwing and catching task was analyzed to generate hypotheses regarding the optical information that participants used. Five intermediate and 5 expert jugglers threw and caught a single ball continuously with 1 hand while wearing a head-mounted eye tracker to monitor their direction of gaze. Participants were instructed to throw the ball at 3 self-paced frequencies: preferred, one half of preferred, and…
How Do Children Control Rate, Amplitude, and Coordination Stability During Bimanual Circle Drawing
Coordination instability (e.g., weak coupling strength) in young children may cause them to control some aspects of coordination in a different manner than adults. This experiment investigated the influence of rate and amplitude on bimanual coordination stability across development (4-, 6-, and 8-year-olds, and adults). Participants traced circles of different amplitudes (5, 10, 15, and 20 cm) while increasing movement rate twice during the trial…
Perceptual Constraints on Frequency Ratio Performance in Motor-Respiratory Coordination
In motor-respiratory coordination, people typically maintain frequency ratios that are from lower levels of a mathematical structure known as the Farey tree. A hypothesized mechanism for motor-respiratory coordination is the visceral piston (Bramble & Carrier, 1983 Bramble, D. M. and Carrier, D. R. 1983. Running and breathing in mammals.. Science, 219: 251–256. [Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar])—mechanical loading of the…
Dynamical Analyses for Developmental Science
Dynamical systems theory is becoming more popular in social and developmental science. However, unfamiliarity with dynamical analysis techniques remains an obstacle for developmentalists who would like to quantitatively apply dynamics in their own research. The goal of this article is to address this issue by clearly and simply presenting several analytical techniques for the study of dynamics. We placed emphasis on the use of dynamical analysis …
A Systems Approach to Perception and Action
On the 50th anniversary of its publication, we look back on some of the intellectual contributions of Gibson's (1966) The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems. This work is often seen as contributing a new perspective to our understanding of the 5 senses. In this paper, we explore another intellectual contribution: Gibson's treatment of perception–action as an irreducible, functional system. We review select examples of systems thinking from t…
Affordances Guide Choice Behavior between Equal Schedules of Reinforcement in Rats
Operant choice theories pose that behavior distribution between options is ruled by the consequences related with these options. Evidence suggests that rats’ performance is attuned to the affordances that the operant setting provides, such as lever height. Our aim was to explore in rats whether lever press distribution was influenced by the affordances furnished by two levers. Lever pressing was reinforced in two concurrent equal variable-ratio s…
Ecological Psychology as a Lawful Science
Advancing Turvey’s Legacy
Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Motor Control and Adaptation (4 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Perception (3 works) · Physics (3 works) · Cognitive science (2 works)