Learning by doing: Action performance facilitates affordance perception

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 2758-2765

  Franchak, John M ^a   van der Zalm, Dina J ^a   Adolph, Karen E ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action; Affordance; Body scaling; Perception; Perceptual learning

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRUNK; WALKING;

ADULT; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; SELF CONCEPT; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650195456     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.09.019     Document Type: Article

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