Perceiving affordances for aperture passage in an Environment-person-person system

Journal of Motor Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 495-500

  Chang, Chih Hui ^a   Wade, Michael G ^b   Stoffregen, Thomas A ^b  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordances; Aperture passage; Body scaled information; Environment person person (E P P) system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPRIOCEPTION; WALKING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; ORIENTATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77449142328     PISSN: 00222895     EISSN: 19401027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/35-08-095     Document Type: Article

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