Learning to perceive the affordance for long-distance throwing: Smart mechanism or function learning?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 862-875

  Zhu, Qin ^a   Bingham, Geoffrey P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordance; Motor learning; Perceptual learning; Throwing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; WEIGHT PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955801969     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018738     Document Type: Article

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