R C Schmidt
Biographic Data
| ID | 6028201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R C Schmidt |
| GIVEN NAMES | R C |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmidt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMIDT R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of the Holy Cross |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-2415-4381 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Study of Coordination Between Patients with Schizophrenia and Socially Assistive Robot During Physical Activity
Social Connection Through Joint Action and Interpersonal Coordination
The pull to coordinate with other individuals is fundamental, serving as the basis for our social connectedness to others. Discussed is a dynamical and ecological perspective to joint action, an approach that embeds the individual’s mind in a body and the body in a niche, a physical and social environment. Research on uninstructed coordination of simple incidental rhythmic movement, along with research on goal‐directed, embodied cooperation, is r…
Is Perceptual Learning Unimodal
Two experiments evaluated change in the perception of an environmental property (object length) in each of 3 perceptual modalities (vision, audition, and haptics) when perceivers were provided with the opportunity to experience the same environmental property by means of an additional perceptual modality (e.g., haptics followed by vision, vision followed by audition, or audition followed by haptics). Experiment 1 found that (a) posttest improveme…
Toward a radically embodied, embedded social psychology
A roadmap toward a more radically embodied social psychology is offered. The perspective embeds embodied minds in a niche: A physical and social environment with action possibilities (“affordances”) that humans are equipped to utilize. At the heart of this embedded perspective is the suggestion that the methods and conceptualizations of integrating the body into social psychology must be inherently more relational, approaching meaning as emerging…
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Rocking together
Scaffolds for Social Meaning
The perception of social meanings traditionally deemed to be private is addressed by contrasting the perception of social affordances with the perception of the physical affordances of environmental objects. Assuming that (a) affordances are defined by relationships between properties of the environment and properties of an actor and that (b) information must exist to specify this relationship for the perception of affordances, the question is wh…
Contrasting Approaches to Perceiving and Acting With Others
How and why the presence of a person directly affects the perception and action of another person is a phenomenon that has been approached in a limited and piecemeal fashion within psychology. This kind of diffuse strategy has failed to capture the jointness of perception and action within and between people. In contradistinction, the authors offer a perspective that retains both integrally social features (e.g., involves interaction) and yet ade…
Coordination Dynamics of Abdomen and Chest During Infant Breathing
(1999). Coordination Dynamics of Abdomen and Chest During Infant Breathing: A Comparison of Full-Term. Ecological Psychology: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 209-232
Evaluating the Dynamics of Unintended Interpersonal Coordination
Past research has shown that interpersonal interactions are characterized by a tacit coordination of motor movements of the participants and has suggested that the emergent synchrony might be explained by a coupled oscillator dynamic. This study investigates whether unintended between-person coordination can be demonstrated in a laboratory task that will allow an evaluation of whether such dynamical processes are involved. Ten pairs of participan…
Effects of Social and Physical Variables on Between-Person Visual Coordination
Between-person visual coordination of rhythmic limb movements was investigated under manipulation of both social and physical variables. Each member of a pair of participants oscillated a hand-held pendulum at the same tempo, with both visually coordinating their movements so as to maintain the alternate phase mode. Participants' social competence was assessed and they were paired to produce three types of combinations: high-high (HH), low-low (L…
Haptic and Visual Perception of an Affordance for Upright Posture
Perception of whether a slanted surface supports upright stance was evaluated visually and haptically. Observers stood approximately 1 m from a 1 m by 1 m plywood board whose angle of inclination varied randomly among seven settings (12, 17, 22, 27, 33, 39, and 45 deg.). For visual trials, observers looked at the surface. For haptic trials, the observers were blindfolded and explored the surface with a hand-held wooden dowel. The perceived behavi…
Autonomous and Nonautonomous Dynamics of Coordinated Rhythmic Movements
Recently, accounts of human rhythmic movement have been given in terms of nonlinear dissipative dynamics with special emphasis on the autonomous dynamics that characterize self-organizing systems. In this article, an argument is made for a modeling strategy that allows for and, when possible, attempts to capitalize on the incorporation of nonautonomous dynamics in models of human rhythmic move- ment, that is, dynamics that characterize systems th…
Investigating a Nonconservative Invariant of Motion in Coordinated Rhythmic Movements
The dimensions of an animal's limbs are fixed, but in locomotion and other rhythmic activities, they oscillated at a number of different frequencies. How might the physical conditions for this frequency variation be characterized? Kugler and Turvey (1987) hypothesized that the conditions might be adiabatic. A rhythmic system undergoes an adiabatic transformation of frequency when the stiffness is changed without a transfer of energy by heating. B…
Toward a radically embodied, embedded social psychology
A roadmap toward a more radically embodied social psychology is offered. The perspective embeds embodied minds in a niche: A physical and social environment with action possibilities (“affordances”) that humans are equipped to utilize. At the heart of this embedded perspective is the suggestion that the methods and conceptualizations of integrating the body into social psychology must be inherently more relational, approaching meaning as emerging…
Investigating a Nonconservative Invariant of Motion in Coordinated Rhythmic Movements
The dimensions of an animal's limbs are fixed, but in locomotion and other rhythmic activities, they oscillated at a number of different frequencies. How might the physical conditions for this frequency variation be characterized? Kugler and Turvey (1987) hypothesized that the conditions might be adiabatic. A rhythmic system undergoes an adiabatic transformation of frequency when the stiffness is changed without a transfer of energy by heating. B…
Autonomous and Nonautonomous Dynamics of Coordinated Rhythmic Movements
Recently, accounts of human rhythmic movement have been given in terms of nonlinear dissipative dynamics with special emphasis on the autonomous dynamics that characterize self-organizing systems. In this article, an argument is made for a modeling strategy that allows for and, when possible, attempts to capitalize on the incorporation of nonautonomous dynamics in models of human rhythmic move- ment, that is, dynamics that characterize systems th…
Effects of Social and Physical Variables on Between-Person Visual Coordination
Between-person visual coordination of rhythmic limb movements was investigated under manipulation of both social and physical variables. Each member of a pair of participants oscillated a hand-held pendulum at the same tempo, with both visually coordinating their movements so as to maintain the alternate phase mode. Participants' social competence was assessed and they were paired to produce three types of combinations: high-high (HH), low-low (L…
Haptic and Visual Perception of an Affordance for Upright Posture
Perception of whether a slanted surface supports upright stance was evaluated visually and haptically. Observers stood approximately 1 m from a 1 m by 1 m plywood board whose angle of inclination varied randomly among seven settings (12, 17, 22, 27, 33, 39, and 45 deg.). For visual trials, observers looked at the surface. For haptic trials, the observers were blindfolded and explored the surface with a hand-held wooden dowel. The perceived behavi…
Evaluating the Dynamics of Unintended Interpersonal Coordination
Past research has shown that interpersonal interactions are characterized by a tacit coordination of motor movements of the participants and has suggested that the emergent synchrony might be explained by a coupled oscillator dynamic. This study investigates whether unintended between-person coordination can be demonstrated in a laboratory task that will allow an evaluation of whether such dynamical processes are involved. Ten pairs of participan…
Coordination Dynamics of Abdomen and Chest During Infant Breathing
(1999). Coordination Dynamics of Abdomen and Chest During Infant Breathing: A Comparison of Full-Term. Ecological Psychology: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 209-232
Contrasting Approaches to Perceiving and Acting With Others
How and why the presence of a person directly affects the perception and action of another person is a phenomenon that has been approached in a limited and piecemeal fashion within psychology. This kind of diffuse strategy has failed to capture the jointness of perception and action within and between people. In contradistinction, the authors offer a perspective that retains both integrally social features (e.g., involves interaction) and yet ade…
Rocking together
Scaffolds for Social Meaning
The perception of social meanings traditionally deemed to be private is addressed by contrasting the perception of social affordances with the perception of the physical affordances of environmental objects. Assuming that (a) affordances are defined by relationships between properties of the environment and properties of an actor and that (b) information must exist to specify this relationship for the perception of affordances, the question is wh…
Social Connection Through Joint Action and Interpersonal Coordination
The pull to coordinate with other individuals is fundamental, serving as the basis for our social connectedness to others. Discussed is a dynamical and ecological perspective to joint action, an approach that embeds the individual’s mind in a body and the body in a niche, a physical and social environment. Research on uninstructed coordination of simple incidental rhythmic movement, along with research on goal‐directed, embodied cooperation, is r…
Is Perceptual Learning Unimodal
Two experiments evaluated change in the perception of an environmental property (object length) in each of 3 perceptual modalities (vision, audition, and haptics) when perceivers were provided with the opportunity to experience the same environmental property by means of an additional perceptual modality (e.g., haptics followed by vision, vision followed by audition, or audition followed by haptics). Experiment 1 found that (a) posttest improveme…
Toward a radically embodied, embedded social psychology
A roadmap toward a more radically embodied social psychology is offered. The perspective embeds embodied minds in a niche: A physical and social environment with action possibilities (“affordances”) that humans are equipped to utilize. At the heart of this embedded perspective is the suggestion that the methods and conceptualizations of integrating the body into social psychology must be inherently more relational, approaching meaning as emerging…
Hop off the mirror neuron bandwagon and join ours, it's less crowded
Study of Coordination Between Patients with Schizophrenia and Socially Assistive Robot During Physical Activity
Computer Science (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (9 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Artificial Intelligence (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Physics (6 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (5 works) · Cognitive science (4 works) · Communication (4 works)