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Jacobs, David M.; Vaz, Daniela V.; Michaels, Claire F. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
In cart-pole balancing, one moves a cart in 1 dimension so as to balance an attached inverted pendulum. We approached perception-action and learning in this task from an ecological perspective. This entailed identifying a space of informational variables that balancers use as they perform the task and demonstrating that they improve by traversing…
Descriptors: Activities, Perception, Time, Psychomotor Objectives
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Richard, Donna Abely; More, William; Joy, Stephen P. – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2015
A severely impaired capacity for social interaction is one of the characteristics of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Deficits in facial emotional recognition processing may be associated with this limitation. The Build-a-Face (BAF) art therapy intervention was developed to assist with emotional recognition through the viewing and…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interpersonal Competence, Emotional Response
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Brancazio, Lawrence; Best, Catherine T.; Fowler, Carol A. – Language and Speech, 2006
We report four experiments designed to determine whether visual information affects judgments of acoustically-specified nonspeech events as well as speech events (the "McGurk effect"). Previous findings have shown only weak McGurk effects for nonspeech stimuli, whereas strong effects are found for consonants. We used click sounds that…
Descriptors: African Languages, Vowels, English, Comparative Analysis