feed forward models, internal representations, perceptual attuntement, the flagrant use of buzz-words, the adaptive ecological perception of action-scaled affordances, all sorts of music, your money, your job, world-domination, cute stuff
Currently working towards a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science at R.P.I.
Expected to finish in early 2010.
Journal Articles (downloadable):
Fajen, BR, Cramer, C, Diaz, GJ (2009). Observation: Reconsidering the role of movement in perceiving action-scaled affordances. Submitted for publication.
To successfully block a well-placed penalty kick, a goalkeeper in soccer must begin a whole-body movement in the appropriate direction before the ball has left the ground. I investigate the hypothesis that these anticipatory judgments are made on the basis of information in the kicker’s approach, and that increases accuracy result from a shift towards more reliable information. Stimuli are point-light penalty kicks in soccer. Principle components analysis is used to isolate independent patterns of motor coordination that are distributed across the kicker’s body and approach. Analyses focus on the relationship between the subjects' judgments of kick direction and these independent patterns of motor coordination.
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