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| Jessica K WittSummaryAffiliation: Purdue University Country: USA Publications
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When and how are spatial perceptions scaled?Jessica K Witt
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 36:1153-60. 2010..The current studies were designed to assess when and how action-specific influences on distance perception have their effects. The results supported the action-specific account...
Performance and ease influence perceived speedJessica K Witt
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, 703 Third Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907 2046, USA
Perception 39:1341-53. 2010..These studies suggest that performance and task ease influence perceived speed...- Action-specific effects in a social context: others' abilities influence perceived speedJessica K Witt
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 38:715-25. 2012..These studies suggest that the environment can be perceived relative to another person's abilities... - A functional role for motor simulation in identifying toolsJessica K Witt
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Psychol Sci 21:1215-9. 2010.... - Action-specific effects underwaterJessica K Witt
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Perception 40:530-7. 2011..These results suggest perceived distance underwater is a function of the perceiver's ability to swim to the targets... - Tool use influences perceived shape and perceived parallelism, which serve as indirect measures of perceived distanceJessica K Witt
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 37:1148-56. 2011..These results demonstrate convergence across multiple types of judgments, a finding that undermines alternative, judgment-based accounts and suggests that the ability to reach an object changes the perceived distance to the object... - Kicking to bigger uprights: field goal kicking performance influences perceived sizeJessica K Witt
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, 703 Third Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907 2046, USA
Perception 38:1328-40. 2009..The more kicks that were missed short of the target, the taller the field goal crossbar looked. These results demonstrate that performance is a factor in size perception... 
Action-specific influences on distance perception: a role for motor simulationJessica K Witt
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 34:1479-92. 2008..When a perceiver intends to perform an action, the perceiver runs a motor simulation of that action. The perceiver's ability to perform the action, as determined by the outcome of the simulation, influences perceived distance...- The long road of pain: chronic pain increases perceived distanceJessica K Witt
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, 703 Third Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Exp Brain Res 192:145-8. 2009..We found that chronic pain patients perceive target distances to be farther away compared with a control group. These results indicate the physical, and perhaps emotional, costs of chronic pain affect spatial perceptions... - Putting to a bigger hole: golf performance relates to perceived sizeJessica K Witt
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 15:581-5. 2008..Our results demonstrate that perception is influenced by the perceiver's current ability to act effectively in the environment... - Seeing beyond the target: environmental context affects distance perceptionJessica K Witt
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, 703 Third Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Perception 36:1752-68. 2007..Across conditions, within individual experiments, all viewer-to-target depth-related variables were kept constant. The differences in perceived distance must therefore be explained by variations in the space beyond the target... - An egocentric frame of reference in implicit motor sequence learningJessica K Witt
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Psychol Res 72:542-52. 2008..Our results are restricted to implicit learning of novel sequences in the early stages of learning. These findings are consistent with claims that the neural mechanisms involved in motor skill learning operate in egocentric coordinates... - Action plans produce separate Simon effects for picking up and transporting objectsJames D Miles
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, 703 Third St, W Lafayette, IN 47907 2081, USA
Psychol Res 74:468-75. 2010..Results showed that the spatial compatibility between the cue and both the initial and goal reaches contribute to the reaction time, with the relation between the cue and the initial reach playing a dominant role... - When walls are no longer barriers: perception of wall height in parkourJ Eric T Taylor
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, 703 Third Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907 2081, USA
Perception 40:757-60. 2011..The traceurs perceived the walls as shorter than did novices. This result suggests that perception is scaled by the perceiver's anticipated ability to act, and is consistent with the action-specific account of perception... - Does ease to block a ball affect perceived ball speed? Examination of alternative hypothesesJessica K Witt
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 38:1202-14. 2012..The results are consistent with a perceptual explanation, and help build a case that blocking ease can influence perceived speed... - Uncovering the connection between artist and audience: viewing painted brushstrokes evokes corresponding action representations in the observerJ Eric T Taylor
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Cognition 125:26-36. 2012..These results provide evidence that observers can simulate the actions of the painter by simply observing the painting, revealing a connection between artist and audience hitherto undemonstrated by cognitive science... - An older view on distance perception: older adults perceive walkable extents as fartherMila Sugovic
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, 703 Third St, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
Exp Brain Res 226:383-91. 2013..Furthermore, the results suggest that perception is still sensitive to environmental differences that affect ability even as a perceiver ages... - Action alters object identification: wielding a gun increases the bias to see gunsJessica K Witt
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 38:1159-67. 2012..In addition to theoretical implications for event perception and object identification, these findings have practical implications for law enforcement and public safety... - Perceived slant: a dissociation between perception and actionJessica K Witt
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, PO Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
Perception 36:249-57. 2007..Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that two perceptual processes underlie the dissociation between explicit awareness and visuomotor assessments of perceived slant... - Tool use affects perceived distance, but only when you intend to use itJessica K Witt
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, PO Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 31:880-8. 2005..These experiments suggest that the authors perceive the environment in terms of our intentions and abilities to act within it... - Perceiving distance: a role of effort and intentJessica K Witt
University of Virginia, PO Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA 22903 2477, USA
Perception 33:577-90. 2004..Perceiving distance combines the geometry of the world with our behavior goals and the potential of our body to achieve these goals...