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The Complexity of Head Movement is Correlated with Learning about Affordances for Walking

4 months 1 week ago
We asked whether the quantitative kinematics of standing postural activity might be related to short-term learning of affordances. Standing participants viewed a narrow path for 15 s, and then gave perceptual reports about the distance that they could walk along the path while wearing a weighted vest (novel affordance) or while not wearing the vest (familiar affordance). In a control condition, participants gave perceptual reports about egocentric distance along the path. During the 15 s viewing...
Nicolette A Peterson

Perception of Affordances in Female Volleyball Players: Serving Short versus Serving to the Sideline

4 months 2 weeks ago
Purpose: We investigated youth volleyball players' perception of affordances for different types of serves. Methods: Participants were separated into Less Experienced (n = 13, maximum of 3 years of competitive volleyball experience) and More Experienced (n = 11, minimum of 4 years of competitive volleyball experience) groups. In the Sideline Condition, participants were asked to report the narrowest gap, relative to either the left or right sideline, into which they could serve the ball. In the...
Danilo Gomes de Arruda

APAL welcomes visiting scholar

8 months 1 week ago
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.
Jason Hanka

APAL conducts research off the coast of California

8 months 3 weeks ago
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.
Alayna Pausch

APAL research presented at NASPSPA conference

8 months 4 weeks ago
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.\
Alayna Pausch

Stoffregen quoted in Longreads article

10 months 3 weeks ago
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."
Jason Hanka

Perception of higher-order affordances for kicking in soccer

11 months ago
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...
Alper Tunga Peker

Arruda receives 2023 Mace Travel Award to attend ICPA conference

11 months 4 weeks ago
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.
Jason Hanka

PLOS ONE recognizes Stoffregen for editorial service

1 year 1 month ago
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.
Jason Hanka

Garza receives virtual reality grant from UROP

1 year 3 months ago
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.”
Jonathan Sweet

School of Kinesiology Faculty present in International Forum

1 year 3 months ago
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.
Jason Hanka