Ad W Smitsman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5758332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ad W Smitsman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ad W |
| FAMILY NAME | Smitsman |
| SIGNATURE | SMITSMAN A W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Future-Creative Human
The global challenges now upon us require a deep dive into our assumptions about learning and development. Do our current capabilities and educational systems prepare us for tomorrow? Do we teach our children how to access and employ their future creative abilities to thrive? What kind of learning process can bring forth a thrivable future from within the systems of today? This paper explores these questions based on our research in the field of …
The significance of event information for 6- to 16-month-old infants' perception of containment
Four experiments familiarized 6-, 9-, 12-, and 16-month-old infants to a solid block that was repeatedly lowered into a semitransparent container. In test trials the end state, containment, was either compatible or incompatible with the objects' size and position. In Experiment 1, infants saw the block and box successively before they observed the end state. This forced infants to attend to each object individually and memorize its size and posit…
Special Section
This paper discusses both a dissociation view and a dynamic view with respect to the study of voluntary, goal-directed behavior. The dissociation view builds on the recently reintroduced ideomotor principle, and conceives of clearly dissociated and hierarchical roles for the planning and control of action. The dynamic view has a more integral and dynamic conception of how planning, control, and timing merge in the guidance of behavior. This view,…
Perseveration in Tool Use
Two experiments investigated how 3‐year‐old children select a tool to perform a manual task, with a focus on their perseverative parameter choices for the various relationships involved in handling a tool: the actor‐to‐tool relation and the tool‐to‐target relation (topology). The first study concerned the parameter value for the tool‐to‐target relation by asking how children use a cane for either pushing an object further away (exclosure; outside…
Information Through Action
Affordances and the Practice of Industrial Design Engineering
A question that struck me when reading Gerda S m d (this issue) arricle on i n d u d design enginedng is how the ecological theory of pmrption and aaion and espeCraUy the study of &rdances may contribute to the practice of indusaial design engineering.Manufactured products are made to be p~ceived and to invoke behavior by being perceived.Such go& require that the products of hdusaial design be meaningful €0 behavior, that is, that they provide th…
Infants' perception of dynamic relations between objects
n Contains fulltext :\n 28189.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Visual perception of numerosity in infancy
Numerosity was defined as an invariant property of a collection of objects specifying its numerical size. Infants looked at displays of small numerosities that changed optic structure such that size was not tied to certain static or dynamic configurational properties of the display but remained constant across patterns of optic motion. The displayed figures moved continuously and at a constant speed. The trajectories were irregular and could prod…
Visual perception of numerosity in infancy
Numerosity was defined as an invariant property of a collection of objects specifying its numerical size. Infants looked at displays of small numerosities that changed optic structure such that size was not tied to certain static or dynamic configurational properties of the display but remained constant across patterns of optic motion. The displayed figures moved continuously and at a constant speed. The trajectories were irregular and could prod…
The significance of event information for 6- to 16-month-old infants' perception of containment
Four experiments familiarized 6-, 9-, 12-, and 16-month-old infants to a solid block that was repeatedly lowered into a semitransparent container. In test trials the end state, containment, was either compatible or incompatible with the objects' size and position. In Experiment 1, infants saw the block and box successively before they observed the end state. This forced infants to attend to each object individually and memorize its size and posit…
Infants' perception of dynamic relations between objects
n Contains fulltext :\n 28189.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Visual perception of numerosity in infancy
Numerosity was defined as an invariant property of a collection of objects specifying its numerical size. Infants looked at displays of small numerosities that changed optic structure such that size was not tied to certain static or dynamic configurational properties of the display but remained constant across patterns of optic motion. The displayed figures moved continuously and at a constant speed. The trajectories were irregular and could prod…
Information Through Action
Affordances and the Practice of Industrial Design Engineering
A question that struck me when reading Gerda S m d (this issue) arricle on i n d u d design enginedng is how the ecological theory of pmrption and aaion and espeCraUy the study of &rdances may contribute to the practice of indusaial design engineering.Manufactured products are made to be p~ceived and to invoke behavior by being perceived.Such go& require that the products of hdusaial design be meaningful €0 behavior, that is, that they provide th…
Infants' perception of dynamic relations between objects
n Contains fulltext :\n 28189.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Special Section
This paper discusses both a dissociation view and a dynamic view with respect to the study of voluntary, goal-directed behavior. The dissociation view builds on the recently reintroduced ideomotor principle, and conceives of clearly dissociated and hierarchical roles for the planning and control of action. The dynamic view has a more integral and dynamic conception of how planning, control, and timing merge in the guidance of behavior. This view,…
Perseveration in Tool Use
Two experiments investigated how 3‐year‐old children select a tool to perform a manual task, with a focus on their perseverative parameter choices for the various relationships involved in handling a tool: the actor‐to‐tool relation and the tool‐to‐target relation (topology). The first study concerned the parameter value for the tool‐to‐target relation by asking how children use a cane for either pushing an object further away (exclosure; outside…
The significance of event information for 6- to 16-month-old infants' perception of containment
Four experiments familiarized 6-, 9-, 12-, and 16-month-old infants to a solid block that was repeatedly lowered into a semitransparent container. In test trials the end state, containment, was either compatible or incompatible with the objects' size and position. In Experiment 1, infants saw the block and box successively before they observed the end state. This forced infants to attend to each object individually and memorize its size and posit…
The Future-Creative Human
The global challenges now upon us require a deep dive into our assumptions about learning and development. Do our current capabilities and educational systems prepare us for tomorrow? Do we teach our children how to access and employ their future creative abilities to thrive? What kind of learning process can bring forth a thrivable future from within the systems of today? This paper explores these questions based on our research in the field of …
Computer Science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Perception (4 works) · Cognitive science (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Physics (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (2 works)