Geoffrey P Bingham
Biographic Data
| ID | 5641349 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey P Bingham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey P |
| FAMILY NAME | Bingham |
| SIGNATURE | BINGHAM G P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7125-5735 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Perceiving visual events uses optical information that reflects dynamics rather than resembles appearance
This study investigates the optical information for visual event perception. Events are objects in motion, with properties like shape, weight and surface material influencing the dynamics that shape movements and optics. The progressive transformation of visible textures, known as visual kinaesthetic information, specifies movements and objects. Four experiments tested whether events could be perceived using only visual kinaesthetic information. …
Does Perceiving Throwabiliy Require a Task Specific Device
Throwing performance, throwability perception and subjectively felt heaviness all depend on object size and weight. Here we investigate how size and weight must be detected to perceive throwability. In previous studies, the size-weight relation was detected by hefting an object in the hand and looking at it. Thus, it could be that detecting the size-weight relation and perceiving throwability entail a visual-kinesthetic multisensory process. On t…
Seeing Where the Stone Is Thrown by Observing a Point-Light Thrower
People are very adept at perceiving biological motion (e.g., Johansson, 1973 Johansson, G. (1973). Visual perception of biological motion and a model for its analysis. Perception & Psychophysics, 14(2), 201–211.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). This ability has been an essential life skill to members of this social species. The human niche during the ice age was socially coordinated hunting for big game. Being able to judge the …
Human readiness to throw
Allometry and Space Perception
Robert E. Shaw and colleagues showed that allometric variations in biological forms provide visual information about the spatial and temporal scale of biological objects (Mark, Todd, & Shaw, 1981; Pittenger & Shaw, 1975a, 1975b; Pittenger, Shaw, & Mark, 1979; Pittenger & Todd, 1983; Shaw, Mark, Jenkins, & Mingolla, 1982; Shaw & Pittenger, 1977, 1978). In these studies, form changes due to growth of the human head and body were investigated. Subse…
Calibration of Distance and Size Does Not Calibrate Shape Information
This study investigated the coupling of distance and size perception as well as the coupling of distance and shape perception. Each was tested in 2 ways using a targeted reaching task that simultaneously yielded measures of distance, size, and shape per-ception. First, feed-forward reaches were tested without feedback. Errors in size did not covary with errors in distance, but errors in shape did. Second, reaches were tested with visual feedback.…
Allometry and Space Perception
A Perceptually Driven Dynamical Model of Bimanual Rhythmic Movement (and Phase Perception)
Rhythmic bimanual movement has been a paradigm system in the study of perception–action. In perception–action, movement generates information that is then used in turn to guide the movement. The result is complex behavior emerging from relatively simple dynamical organization. Nonlinear dynamics has been used to describe the organization, but the models thus far have not much featured the role of information so that the information has not been i…
Events (Like Objects) Are Things, Can Have Affordance Properties, and Can Be Perceived
Stoffregen (target article, this issue) argues that events and affordances are qualitatively distinct properties; that affordances are animal and observer referential, whereas events are not; and that only affordances are perceived and events are not. In this commentary, I argue to the contrary-that events are perceived as well as affordances and that animals do not perceive disembodied properties anymore than they could perceive propertyless thi…
Monocular Egocentric Distance Information Generated by Head Movement
How might definite spatial scale be determined on the basis of monocular optic flows? The evidence for the perception of distances in depth from optic flow indicates that head motion is essential for accurate performance. Accordingly, we propose a solution that entails the use of symmetries in the physically determined form of oscillatory head trajectories. The hypothesized solution is notable in two other respects. The first is the use of a time…
The Implications of Ocular Occlusion
The point of observation translates with eye movement because it is not coincident with the center of rotation in the eye: Ocular occlusion results. The amount of optical structure revealed by eye rotation depends on the distances of the occluding and occluded surfaces. I review studies showing that ocular occlusion is detectable beyond near space and functionally effective in providing information about the separation of surfaces in depth. After…
Scaling Judgments of Lifted Weight
Runeson and Frykholm (1981, 1983) discovered that observers could judge the amount of weight lifted by another person when only the motions were visible in patch-light displays. Gilden and Proffitt (1989) suggested that this might have been experimental artifact. A standard had been included and might have been used to scale perceived motions to amounts of lifted weight. Were standards essential to the results? We performed experiments to investi…
Task-Specific Dynamics and the Study of Perception and Action
In a recent discussion of motor development, von Hofsten (1989) distinguished two approaches which he called the perception-action and dynamic systems ap- proaches, respectively. In this reaction, we suggest that the proposed distinction is inappropriate. We argue that research on perception and action in terms of task-specific dynamics is uniquely suited to the characterization of problems inherent to the coupling of perception and action. The p…
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Task-Specific Dynamics and the Study of Perception and Action
In a recent discussion of motor development, von Hofsten (1989) distinguished two approaches which he called the perception-action and dynamic systems ap- proaches, respectively. In this reaction, we suggest that the proposed distinction is inappropriate. We argue that research on perception and action in terms of task-specific dynamics is uniquely suited to the characterization of problems inherent to the coupling of perception and action. The p…
The Implications of Ocular Occlusion
The point of observation translates with eye movement because it is not coincident with the center of rotation in the eye: Ocular occlusion results. The amount of optical structure revealed by eye rotation depends on the distances of the occluding and occluded surfaces. I review studies showing that ocular occlusion is detectable beyond near space and functionally effective in providing information about the separation of surfaces in depth. After…
Scaling Judgments of Lifted Weight
Runeson and Frykholm (1981, 1983) discovered that observers could judge the amount of weight lifted by another person when only the motions were visible in patch-light displays. Gilden and Proffitt (1989) suggested that this might have been experimental artifact. A standard had been included and might have been used to scale perceived motions to amounts of lifted weight. Were standards essential to the results? We performed experiments to investi…
Monocular Egocentric Distance Information Generated by Head Movement
How might definite spatial scale be determined on the basis of monocular optic flows? The evidence for the perception of distances in depth from optic flow indicates that head motion is essential for accurate performance. Accordingly, we propose a solution that entails the use of symmetries in the physically determined form of oscillatory head trajectories. The hypothesized solution is notable in two other respects. The first is the use of a time…
Events (Like Objects) Are Things, Can Have Affordance Properties, and Can Be Perceived
Stoffregen (target article, this issue) argues that events and affordances are qualitatively distinct properties; that affordances are animal and observer referential, whereas events are not; and that only affordances are perceived and events are not. In this commentary, I argue to the contrary-that events are perceived as well as affordances and that animals do not perceive disembodied properties anymore than they could perceive propertyless thi…
A Perceptually Driven Dynamical Model of Bimanual Rhythmic Movement (and Phase Perception)
Rhythmic bimanual movement has been a paradigm system in the study of perception–action. In perception–action, movement generates information that is then used in turn to guide the movement. The result is complex behavior emerging from relatively simple dynamical organization. Nonlinear dynamics has been used to describe the organization, but the models thus far have not much featured the role of information so that the information has not been i…
Allometry and Space Perception
Robert E. Shaw and colleagues showed that allometric variations in biological forms provide visual information about the spatial and temporal scale of biological objects (Mark, Todd, & Shaw, 1981; Pittenger & Shaw, 1975a, 1975b; Pittenger, Shaw, & Mark, 1979; Pittenger & Todd, 1983; Shaw, Mark, Jenkins, & Mingolla, 1982; Shaw & Pittenger, 1977, 1978). In these studies, form changes due to growth of the human head and body were investigated. Subse…
Calibration of Distance and Size Does Not Calibrate Shape Information
This study investigated the coupling of distance and size perception as well as the coupling of distance and shape perception. Each was tested in 2 ways using a targeted reaching task that simultaneously yielded measures of distance, size, and shape per-ception. First, feed-forward reaches were tested without feedback. Errors in size did not covary with errors in distance, but errors in shape did. Second, reaches were tested with visual feedback.…
Allometry and Space Perception
Human readiness to throw
Seeing Where the Stone Is Thrown by Observing a Point-Light Thrower
People are very adept at perceiving biological motion (e.g., Johansson, 1973 Johansson, G. (1973). Visual perception of biological motion and a model for its analysis. Perception & Psychophysics, 14(2), 201–211.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). This ability has been an essential life skill to members of this social species. The human niche during the ice age was socially coordinated hunting for big game. Being able to judge the …
Does Perceiving Throwabiliy Require a Task Specific Device
Throwing performance, throwability perception and subjectively felt heaviness all depend on object size and weight. Here we investigate how size and weight must be detected to perceive throwability. In previous studies, the size-weight relation was detected by hefting an object in the hand and looking at it. Thus, it could be that detecting the size-weight relation and perceiving throwability entail a visual-kinesthetic multisensory process. On t…
Perceiving visual events uses optical information that reflects dynamics rather than resembles appearance
This study investigates the optical information for visual event perception. Events are objects in motion, with properties like shape, weight and surface material influencing the dynamics that shape movements and optics. The progressive transformation of visible textures, known as visual kinaesthetic information, specifies movements and objects. Four experiments tested whether events could be perceived using only visual kinaesthetic information. …
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