Perceptual Regulation

I study the perceptual regulation of various spatial actions.

Locomotion

Studies aimed at understanding how performing a motor-action helps adapt perception action cycles. Specifically, an examination of learning to walk to a stationary target with the virtual heading direction displaced 10° to the right of the actual walking direction.

ms Bruggeman, H.& Warren, W.H. (2010). The direction of walking – but not throwing or kicking – is adapted by optic flow. Psychological Science, 21(7), 1006-1013 (PubMed)
ms Bruggeman, H., Zosh, W.D., and Warren, W.H. (2007). Optic flow drives human visuo-locomotor adaptation. Current Biology, 17(23), 2035-2040. PUBMED-copy

Turning

Studies aimed at understanding spatially updated turning behavior.

ms Bruggeman, H., , Piuneu V.S., Pick Jr., H.L. & Rieser, J.J. (2009). Biomechanical Versus Inertial Information: Stable Individual Differences in Perception of Self-Rotation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35(5), 1472-1480. (PubMed)

Throwing

Studies aimed at understanding how performing a motor-action helps adapt perception action cycles. Specifically, an examination of learning to throw while thrower and target are positioned on a rotating carousel.

ms Bruggeman, H., Pick, H.L. Jr., & Rieser, J.J. (2005). Learning to throw on a rotating carousel: Recalibration based on limb dynamics and projectile kinematics. Experimental Brain Research, 163(2), 188-97. (PubMed)
Poster-2 Bruggeman, & Rieser, J.J., H., Pick, H.L. Jr. (2004). An action system analysis of visuomotor learning, VSS, Sarasota, April 30-May 5 2004.