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Chang received the PhD in Kinesiology from the University of Minnesota in 2006, and has returned to spend a full year in APAL, working with Dr. Stoffregen.

Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), PhD candidate Dani Arruda, MS, and Claire Lewis recently conducted research on affordance perception off the coast of Northern California.

Members of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL) led by Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology, recently participated in the International Conference on Perception and Action, held in Guadalajara, Mexico over June 27-30.

Research from the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL) was represented at the annual North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA) conference held June 1-3, 2023, in Toronto, Canada.\

Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor of perceptual-motor control and learning in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, for his work on the study, entitled, Perception of higher-order affordances for kicking in soccer.

Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor of perceptual-motor control and learning in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, for his work on the study, entitled, Perception of higher-order affordances for kicking in soccer.

Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor of perceptual-motor control and learning in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), was recently quoted in a Longreads article about motion sickness on amusement park rides by Emily Latimer, entitled, "I Think I’m Going to Be Sick."

We investigated the perception of higher-order interpersonal affordances for kicking that emerged from lower-order personal and interpersonal affordances in the context of soccer. Youth soccer players reported the minimum gap width between two confederates through which they could kick a ball. In Experiment 1, we independently manipulated the egocentric distance of gaps from participants, and the nominal role of the confederates, either as teammates or opponents. In Experiment 2, we additionally...

Dani Arruda, MS, a PhD candidate in the School of Kinesiology and member of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL) led by Tom Stoffregen, PhD, recently received the 2023 Mace Travel Award from the International Society for Ecological Psychology to attend the 2023 International Conference on Perception and Action.

Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor of perceptual-motor control and learning in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), recently spoke for a content series hosted by TU Delft's Intelligent Vehicles Group.

Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor of perceptual-motor control and learning in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), recently received a Long Service Award from PLOS One's editorial board.

Eugenia Garza, an undergraduate kinesiology major, has been awarded a Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) for her project, “Perceiving affordances for volleyball serving in virtual reality.”

Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor of perceptual-motor control and learning in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), was recently interviewed for a podcast from Nautilus International, an organization representing maritime professionals.

School of Kinesiology faculty, Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL) and Zan Gao, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Physical Activity Epidemiology Laboratory (PAEL), were invited to give keynote presentations via Zoom to the International Academic Forum on Intelligent Sports and Human Health that was held in China on January 7th.

This month School of Kinesiology student Eugenia Garza will compete at the 2023 FISU World University Games in Lake Placid, NY

Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), was recently quoted by National Geographic.

Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), recently presented a poster at the 2022 Neuroscience conference in San Diego.

Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), along with co-authors in the APAL, Danny Arruda, MS, and George Bailey, MS, a doctoral candidate in the School of Kinesiology, has published an article entitled, "Using quantitative data on postural activity to develop methods to predict and prevent cybersickness" to Frontiers in Virtual Reality.

Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), has published a commentary, "Against free energy, for direct perception" on a target article, "The Emperor's New Markov Blankets."

We question the free energy principle (FEP) as it is used in contemporary physics. If the FEP is incorrect in physics, then it cannot ground the authors' arguments. We also question the assumption that perception requires inference. We argue that perception (including perception of social affordances) can be direct, in which case inference is not required.