Time-to-Contact (eBook)

Heiko Hecht, Geert Savelsbergh (Herausgeber)

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2004 | 1. Auflage
522 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
9780080481388 (ISBN)

Infos

Time-to-contact is the visual information that observers use in fundamental tasks such as landing an airplane or hitting a ball. Time-to-contact has been a hot topic in perception and action for many years and although many articles have been published on this topic, a comprehensive overview or assessment of the theory does not yet exist. This book fills an important gap and will have appeal to the perception and action community. The book is divided into four sections. Section one covers the foundation of time-to-contact, Section two covers different behavioral approaches to time-to-contact estimation, Section three focuses on time-to-contact as perception and strategy, and Section four covers time-to-contact and action regulation.

Inhalt

Cover 3
Table of contents 7
1. Theories of time-to-contact judgment 13
Part I: Foundations of Time-to-Contact 25
2. The biological bases of time-to-collision computation 25
3. Building blocks for time-to-contact estimation by the brain 51
4. Predicting motion: A psychophysical study 65
5. Collisions: Getting them under control 79
Part II: Different behavioral approaches to Time-to-Contact estimation 105
6. Optical information for collision detection during deceleration 105
7. Interceptive action: What's time-to-contact got to do with it? 121
8. The information-based control of interceptive timing: A developmental perspective 153
9. A step by step approach to research on time-to-contact and time-to-passage 185
10. Textured Tau 241
Part III: Time-to-Contact as Perception and Strategy 255
11. Multiple sources of information influence time-to-contact judgments: Do heuristics accommodate limits in sensory and cognitive processes? 255
12. How now, broad Tau? 299
13. The use of binocular time-to-contact information 315
14. Interception of projectiles, from when & where to where once
15. Acoustic information for timing 367
Time-to-Contact and Action Regulation 383
16. Why tau is probably not used to guide reaches 383
17. The use of time-to-contact information for the initiation of hand closure in natural prehension 401
18. Another timing variable composed of state variables: Phase perception and phase driven oscillators 433
19. The fallacious assumption of time-to-contact perception in the regulation of catching and hitting 455
20. How time-to-contact is involved in the regulation of goal-directed locomotion 487
Subject Index 505
Author Index 509

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.5.2004
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-13: 9780080481388 / 9780080481388