My research focuses on the visual control of action - in particular, human locomotion and navigation. On the one hand, I want to understand how motor behavior such as gait and other rhythmic movements are dynamically organized. On the other, I seek to explain how such behavior is adaptively regulated by visual information in complex environments. Using virtual reality techniques, my research team investigates problems such as the visual control of steering, obstacle avoidance, pedestrian interactions, and collective crowd behavior. This technology allows us to manipulate what human subjects see while walking through the virtual landscape, and to measure how they respond to this information. By using computer graphics, we test how the visual system determines one's future path from information such as optic flow, in order to characterize the functions that the brain must perform. The ultimate aim of this research is to understand how adaptive behavior emerges from the dynamic interaction of an organism and its environment. I think the answers will not be found solely in the brain, but will also depend on the physical and informational regularities that the brain exploits. This research contributes to a foundation of basic knowledge that is needed to understand visual-motor disorders and mobility problems in humans, and to develop mobile robots that can operate in novel environments such as the surface of Mars.
I became interested in this research as a doctoral candidate in experimental psychology at the University of Connecticut when it became clear to me that the function of vision is to control behavior. Early perceptual experiments led to my current interest in the link between vision and action.
| Falandays, J. Benjamin, Yoshimi, Jeffrey, Warren, William H., Spivey, Michael J. "A potential mechanism for Gibsonian resonance: behavioral entrainment emerges from local homeostasis in an unsupervised reservoir network." Cognitive Neurodynamics, 2023. |
| Warren, William H., Falandays, J. Benjamin, Yoshida, Kei, Wirth, Trenton D., Free, Brian A. "Human Crowds as Social Networks: Collective Dynamics of Consensus and Polarization." Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2023. |
| Wirth, Trenton D, Dachner, Gregory C, Rio, Kevin W, Warren, William H. "Is the neighborhood of interaction in human crowds metric, topological, or visual?." PNAS Nexus, vol. 2, no. 5, 2023. |
| Bai J, Warren WH. "Relative rate of expansion controls speed in one-dimensional pedestrian following." Journal of Vision, vol. 23, no. 10, 2023, pp. 3. |
| Mullick P, Fontaine S, Appert-Rolland C, Olivier AH, Warren WH, Pettré J. "Analysis of emergent patterns in crossing flows of pedestrians reveals an invariant of 'stripe' formation in human data." PLOS Computational Biology, vol. 18, no. 6, 2022, pp. e1010210. |
| Ravi S, Siesenop T, Bertrand OJ, Li L, Doussot C, Fisher A, Warren WH, Egelhaaf M. "Bumblebees display characteristics of active vision during robust obstacle avoidance flight." Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 225, no. 4, 2022. |
| Dachner GC, Wirth TD, Richmond E, Warren WH. "The visual coupling between neighbours explains local interactions underlying human 'flocking'." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 289, no. 1970, 2022, pp. 20212089. |
| Baxter BA, Warren WH. "A day at the beach: Does visually perceived distance depend on the energetic cost of walking?." Journal of Vision, vol. 21, no. 12, 2021, pp. 13. |
| Chrastil ER, Warren WH. "Executing the homebound path is a major source of error in homing by path integration." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 47, no. 1, 2021, pp. 13-35. |
| Kinateder M, Warren WH. "Exit choice during evacuation is influenced by both the size and proportion of the egressing crowd." Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, vol. 569, 2021, pp. 125746. |
| Warren, William H. "Information Is Where You Find It: Perception as an Ecologically Well-Posed Problem." i-Perception, vol. 12, no. 2, 2021, pp. 204166952110003. |
| Wirth TD, Warren WH. "Robust weighted averaging accounts for recruitment into collective motion in human crowds." Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, vol. 7, 2021. |
| Hackney, Amy L., Cinelli, Michael E., Warren, William H., Frank, James S. "Are avatars treated like human obstacles during aperture crossing in virtual environments?." Gait & Posture, vol. 80, 2020, pp. 74-76. |
| Ravi, Sridhar, Siesenop, Tim, Bertrand, Olivier, Li, Liang, Doussot, Charlotte, Warren, William H., Combes, Stacey A., Egelhaaf, Martin. "Bumblebees perceive the spatial layout of their environment in relation to their body size and form to minimize inflight collisions." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 117, no. 49, 2020, pp. 31494-31499. |
| Lombardi, Maria, Warren, William H., di Bernardo, Mario. "Nonverbal leadership emergence in walking groups." Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020. |
| Ericson JD, Warren WH. "Probing the invariant structure of spatial knowledge: Support for the cognitive graph hypothesis." Cognition, vol. 200, 2020, pp. 104276. |
| Baxter BA, Warren WH. "Route selection in barrier avoidance." Gait & Posture, vol. 80, 2020, pp. 192-198. |
| Ericson, Jonathan D, Chrastil, Elizabeth R, Warren, William H. "Space syntax visibility graph analysis is not robust to changes in spatial and temporal resolution." Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2020, pp. 239980831989762. |
| Warren, William H. "Non-Euclidean navigation." The Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 222, no. Suppl 1, 2019, pp. jeb187971. |
| Kinateder, Max, Warren, William H., Schloss, Karen B. "What color are emergency exit signs? Egress behavior differs from verbal report." Applied Ergonomics, vol. 75, 2019, pp. 155-160. |
| Warren, William H. "Collective Motion in Human Crowds." Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 27, no. 4, 2018, pp. 232-240. |
| Kinateder, Max, Comunale, Brittany, Warren, William H. "Exit choice in an emergency evacuation scenario is influenced by exit familiarity and neighbor behavior." Safety Science, vol. 106, 2018, pp. 170-175. |
| Rio, K.W. Dachner, G.C. Warren, W.H. "The local neighbourhood underlying collective motion in human crowds." Proceedings of the Royal Society B, vol. 285, no. 1878, 2018. |
| Zhao, Huaiyong, Warren, William H. "Intercepting a moving target: On-line or model-based control?." Journal of Vision, vol. 17, no. 5, 2017, pp. 12. |
| Kiefer, Adam W., Rio, Kevin, Bonneaud, Stéphane, Walton, Ashley, Warren, William H. "Quantifying and Modeling Coordination and Coherence in Pedestrian Groups." Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 8, 2017. |
| Chrastil, Elizabeth R., Warren, William H. "Rotational error in path integration: encoding and execution errors in angle reproduction." Experimental Brain Research, vol. 235, no. 6, 2017, pp. 1885-1897. |
| Warren, W.H., Rothman, D.B., Schnapp, B.H. & Ericson, J.D. "Wormholes in virtual space: From cognitive maps to cognitive graphs." Cognition, vol. 166, 2017, pp. 152-163. |
| Kinateder, Max, Warren, William H. "Social Influence on Evacuation Behavior in Real and Virtual Environments." Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 3, 2016. |
| Chrastil, Elizabeth R., Warren, William H. "Active and passive spatial learning in human navigation: Acquisition of graph knowledge." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, vol. 41, no. 4, 2015, pp. 1162-1178. |
| Zhao, Mintao, Warren, William H. "Environmental stability modulates the role of path integration in human navigation." Cognition, vol. 142, 2015, pp. 96-109. |
| Zhao, M., Warren, W. H. "How you get there from here: Interaction of visual landmarks and path integration in human navigation." Psychological Science, vol. 26, no. 6, 2015, pp. 915-924. |
| Zhao, Huaiyong, Warren, William H. "On-line and model-based approaches to the visual control of action." Vision research, vol. 110, 2015, pp. 190-202. |
| Rhea, Christopher K., Kiefer, Adam W., Haran, F.J., Glass, Stephen M., Warren, William H. "A new measure of the CoP trajectory in postural sway: Dynamics of heading change." Medical Engineering & Physics, vol. 36, no. 11, 2014, pp. 1473-1479. |
| Dachner, Gregory C., Warren, William H. "Behavioral Dynamics of Heading Alignment in Pedestrian Following." Transportation Research Procedia, vol. 2, 2014, pp. 69-76. |
| Rhea, Christopher K., Kiefer, Adam W., D’Andrea, Susan E., Warren, William H., Aaron, Roy K. "Entrainment to a real time fractal visual stimulus modulates fractal gait dynamics." Human Movement Science, vol. 36, 2014, pp. 20-34. |
| Rio, K. W., Rhea, C. K., Warren, W. H. "Follow the leader: Visual control of speed in pedestrian following." Journal of Vision, vol. 14, no. 2, 2014, pp. 4-4. |
| Chrastil, Elizabeth R., Warren, William H. "From Cognitive Maps to Cognitive Graphs." PLoS ONE, vol. 9, no. 11, 2014, pp. e112544. |
| Rio, Kevin, Warren, William H. "The Visual Coupling between Neighbors in Real and Virtual Crowds." Transportation Research Procedia, vol. 2, 2014, pp. 132-140. |
| Chrastil, Elizabeth R., Warren, William H. "Active and passive spatial learning in human navigation: Acquisition of survey knowledge." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, vol. 39, no. 5, 2013, pp. 1520-1537. |
| Chrastil, Elizabeth R., Warren, William H. "Does the human odometer use an extrinsic or intrinsic metric?." Atten Percept Psychophys, vol. 76, no. 1, 2013, pp. 230-246. |
| Siegler, I. A., Bazile, C., Warren, W. H. "Mixed control for perception and action: timing and error correction in rhythmic ball-bouncing." Exp Brain Res, vol. 226, no. 4, 2013, pp. 603-615. |
| Bonneaud, Stéphane, Rio, Kevin, Chevaillier, Pierre, Warren, William H. "Accounting for Patterns of Collective Behavior in Crowd Locomotor Dynamics for Realistic Simulations." Automata, Languages and Programming, 2012, pp. 1-11. |
| Cinelli, Michael, Warren, William H. "Do walkers follow their heads? Investigating the role of head rotation in locomotor control." Exp Brain Res, vol. 219, no. 2, 2012, pp. 175-190. |
| Warren WH. "Does this computational theory solve the right problem? Marr, Gibson, and the goal of vision." Perception, vol. 41, no. 9, 2012, pp. 1053-60. |
| Chrastil, Elizabeth R., Warren, William H. "Active and passive contributions to spatial learning." Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, vol. 19, no. 1, 2011, pp. 1-23. |
| Siegle, Joshua H, Warren, William H. "Distal attribution and distance perception in sensory substitution." Perception, vol. 39, no. 2, 2010, pp. 208-223. |
| Siegler, Isabelle A., Bardy, Benoît G., Warren, William H. "Passive vs. active control of rhythmic ball bouncing: The role of visual information." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 36, no. 3, 2010, pp. 729-750. |
| Bruggeman, H., Warren, W. H. "The Direction of Walking--but Not Throwing or Kicking--Is Adapted by Optic Flow." Psychological Science, vol. 21, no. 7, 2010, pp. 1006-1013. |
| Gérin-Lajoie, Martin, Ciombor, Deborah McK., Warren, William H., Aaron, Roy K. "Using ambulatory virtual environments for the assessment of functional gait impairment: A proof-of-concept study." Gait & Posture, vol. 31, no. 4, 2010, pp. 533-536. |
| Fink, P. W., Foo, P. S., Warren, W. H. "Catching fly balls in virtual reality: A critical test of the outfielder problem." Journal of Vision, vol. 9, no. 13, 2009, pp. 14-14. |
| Warren, William H. "How do animals get about by vision? Visually controlled locomotion and orientation after 50 years." British Journal of Psychology, vol. 100, no. S1, 2009, pp. 277-281. |
| Warren, William H. "Using Ambulatory VR to Break the Laws of Physics and Optics." Frontiers in Optics 2008/Laser Science XXIV/Plasmonics and Metamaterials/Optical Fabrication and Testing, 2008. |
| Fajen, Brett R., Warren, William H. "Behavioral dynamics of intercepting a moving target." Exp Brain Res, vol. 180, no. 2, 2007, pp. 303-319. |
| Morice, Antoine H. P., Siegler, Isabelle A., Bardy, Benoît G., Warren, William H. "Learning new perception–action solutions in virtual ball bouncing." Exp Brain Res, vol. 181, no. 2, 2007, pp. 249-265. |
| Fink, Philip W., Foo, Patrick S., Warren, William H. "Obstacle avoidance during walking in real and virtual environments." ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, vol. 4, no. 1, 2007, pp. 2-es. |
| Bruggeman, Hugo, Zosh, Wendy, Warren, William H. "Optic Flow Drives Human Visuo-Locomotor Adaptation." Current Biology, vol. 17, no. 23, 2007, pp. 2035-2040. |
| Mohler, Betty J., Thompson, William B., Creem-Regehr, Sarah H., Pick, Herbert L., Warren, William H. "Visual flow influences gait transition speed and preferred walking speed." Exp Brain Res, vol. 181, no. 2, 2007, pp. 221-228. |
| Foo, Patrick, Duchon, Andrew, Warren, William H., Tarr, Michael J. "Humans do not switch between path knowledge and landmarks when learning a new environment." Psychological Research, vol. 71, no. 3, 2006, pp. 240-251. |
| Fernandez, Laure, Warren, William H., Bootsma, Reinoud J. "Kinematic adaptation to sudden changes in visual task constraints during reciprocal aiming." Human Movement Science, vol. 25, no. 6, 2006, pp. 695-717. |
| Warren, William H. "The dynamics of perception and action." Psychological Review, vol. 113, no. 2, 2006, pp. 358-389. |
| Huang, Wesley H., Fajen, Brett R., Fink, Jonathan R., Warren, William H. "Visual navigation and obstacle avoidance using a steering potential function." Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 54, no. 4, 2006, pp. 288-299. |
| Laidlaw, D.H., Kirby, R.M., Jackson, C.D., Davidson, J.S., Miller, T.S., da Silva, M., Warren, W.H., Tarr, M.J. "Comparing 2D Vector Field Visualization Methods: A User Study." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 11, no. 01, 2005, pp. 59-70. |
| Foo, Patrick, Warren, William H., Duchon, Andrew, Tarr, Michael J. "Do Humans Integrate Routes Into a Cognitive Map? Map- Versus Landmark-Based Navigation of Novel Shortcuts." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, vol. 31, no. 2, 2005, pp. 195-215. |
| Warren, William H., Fajen, Brett R. "Behavioral Dynamics of Human Locomotion." Ecological Psychology, vol. 16, no. 1, 2004, pp. 61-66. |
| Li, Li, Warren, William H. "Path perception during rotation: influence of instructions, depth range, and dot density." Vision research, vol. 44, no. 16, 2004, pp. 1879-1889. |
| Fajen, Brett R, Warren, William H. "Visual guidance of intercepting a moving target on foot." Perception, vol. 33, no. 6, 2004, pp. 689-715. |
| Fajen, Brett R., Warren, William H. "Behavioral dynamics of steering, obstable avoidance, and route selection." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 29, no. 2, 2003, pp. 343-362. |
| Duchon AP, Warren WH Jr. "A visual equalization strategy for locomotor control: of honeybees, robots, and humans." Psychological Science, vol. 13, no. 3, 2002, pp. 272-8. |
| Finney SA, Warren WH. "Delayed auditory feedback and rhythmic tapping: evidence for a critical interval shift." Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 64, no. 6, 2002, pp. 896-908. |
| Li L, Peli E, Warren WH. "Heading perception in patients with advanced retinitis pigmentosa." Optometry and vision science : official publication of the American Academy of Optometry, vol. 79, no. 9, 2002, pp. 581-9. |
| Kearns MJ, Warren WH, Duchon AP, Tarr MJ. "Path integration from optic flow and body senses in a homing task." Perception, vol. 31, no. 3, 2002, pp. 349-74. |
| Li L, Warren WH Jr. "Retinal flow is sufficient for steering during observer rotation." Psychological Science, vol. 13, no. 5, 2002, pp. 485-91. |
| Bennett DJ, Warren W. "Size scaling: retinal or environmental frame of reference?." Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 64, no. 3, 2002, pp. 462-77. |
| Tarr MJ, Warren WH. "Virtual reality in behavioral neuroscience and beyond." Nature Neuroscience, vol. 5 Suppl, 2002, pp. 1089-92. |
| Kay BA, Warren WH Jr. "Coupling of posture and gait: mode locking and parametric excitation." Biological cybernetics, vol. 85, no. 2, 2001, pp. 89-106. |
| Warren WH Jr, Kay BA, Zosh WD, Duchon AP, Sahuc S. "Optic flow is used to control human walking." Nature Neuroscience, vol. 4, no. 2, 2001, pp. 213-6. |
| Li L, Warren WH Jr. "Perception of heading during rotation: sufficiency of dense motion parallax and reference objects." Vision research, vol. 40, no. 28, 2000, pp. 3873-94. |
| Bardy BG, Warren WH Jr, Kay BA. "The role of central and peripheral vision in postural control during walking." Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 61, no. 7, 1999, pp. 1356-68. |
| Diedrich FJ, Warren WH. "The dynamics of gait transitions: effects of grade and load." Journal of motor behavior, vol. 30, no. 1, 1998, pp. 60-78. |
| Bardy BG, Warren WH Jr, Kay BA. "Motion parallax is used to control postural sway during walking." Exp Brain Res, vol. 111, no. 2, 1996, pp. 271-82. |
| Hatsopoulos NG, Warren WH Jr. "Resonance Tuning in Rhythmic Arm Movements." Journal of motor behavior, vol. 28, no. 1, 1996, pp. 3-14. |
| Warren WH, Kay BA, Yilmaz EH. "Visual control of posture during walking: functional specificity." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 22, no. 4, 1996, pp. 818-38. |
| Hatsopoulos, Nicholas G., Warren, William H. "Do control variables exist?." Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 18, no. 04, 1995, pp. 762. |
| Warren WH Jr, Saunders JA. "Perceiving heading in the presence of moving objects." Perception, vol. 24, no. 3, 1995, pp. 315-31. |
| Yilmaz EH, Warren WH Jr. "Visual control of braking: a test of the tau hypothesis." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 21, no. 5, 1995, pp. 996-1014. |
| Diedrich FJ, Warren WH Jr. "Why change gaits? Dynamics of the walk-run transition." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 21, no. 1, 1995, pp. 183-202. |
| Warren WH, Kurtz KJ. "The role of central and peripheral vision in perceiving the direction of self-motion." Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 51, no. 5, 1992, pp. 443-54. |
| Warren WH Jr, Blackwell AW, Kurtz KJ, Hatsopoulos NG, Kalish ML. "On the sufficiency of the velocity field for perception of heading." Biological cybernetics, vol. 65, no. 5, 1991, pp. 311-20. |
| Warren WH Jr, Mestre DR, Blackwell AW, Morris MW. "Perception of circular heading from optical flow." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 17, no. 1, 1991, pp. 28-43. |
| Warren WH Jr, Hannon DJ. "Eye movements and optical flow." Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics and image science, vol. 7, no. 1, 1990, pp. 160-9. |
| Warren WH Jr, Blackwell AW, Morris MW. "Age differences in perceiving the direction of self-motion from optical flow." Journal of gerontology, vol. 44, no. 5, 1989, pp. P147-53. |
| Warren, W.H. Hannon, D. "Direction of self-motion is perceived from optical flow." Nature, vol. 336, 1988, pp. 162-3. |
| Warren WH Jr, Morris MW, Kalish M. "Perception of translational heading from optical flow." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 14, no. 4, 1988, pp. 646-60. |
| Warren WH Jr, Kim EE, Husney R. "The way the ball bounces: visual and auditory perception of elasticity and control of the bounce pass." Perception, vol. 16, no. 3, 1987, pp. 309-36. |
| Warren WH Jr, Whang S. "Visual guidance of walking through apertures: body-scaled information for affordances." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 13, no. 3, 1987, pp. 371-83. |
| Warren WH Jr, Young DS, Lee DN. "Visual control of step length during running over irregular terrain." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 12, no. 3, 1986, pp. 259-66. |
| Warren WH Jr, Verbrugge RR. "Auditory perception of breaking and bouncing events: a case study in ecological acoustics." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 10, no. 5, 1984, pp. 704-12. |
| Warren WH Jr. "Perceiving affordances: visual guidance of stair climbing." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 10, no. 5, 1984, pp. 683-703. |
| Todd JT, Warren WH Jr. "Visual perception of relative mass in dynamic events." Perception, vol. 11, no. 3, 1982, pp. 325-35. |
| Warren, William H., Shaw, Robert E. "Psychophysics and ecometrics." Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 4, no. 02, 1981, pp. 209. |
(a) Current grants
NIH, "A vision-based model of locomotion in crowded environments." 2019-25, PI, $1,662,000.
NSF, "Self-organization and collective decision-making in human crowds." 2019-2024, PI.
(b) Completed grants
NIH, "Age-related changes in the visual control of locomotion." 1985-88, PI, $240,000.
NIH, "Visual control of locomotion." 1989-94, PI, $500,000.
NIH, "Visual control of locomotion." 1994-98, PI, $675,000.
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Research Career Development Award, "Visual control of adaptive behavior." 1997-02, PI, $500,000.
NSF, "Learning minimal representations for visual navigation." 1997-01, Co-PI (with Tarr and Kaelbling), $825,000.
NIH, "Visual control of locomotion." 1998-03, PI, $830,222.
NSF/Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Training Grant, "Dealing with uncertainty: Cognitive, computational, and statistical approaches." 1998-06, participating faculty (with Johnson, et al).
NSF, "Visualization of Multi-Valued Scientific Data." 2000-03, Co-PI (with Laidlaw, et al.), $2,296,599.
National Science Foundation (NSF), "Dynamics of action and perception in a rhythmic task," 2005-08, Co-PI (with Dagmar Sternad), $283,725.
NSF, "Learning minimal representations for visual navigation and recognition." 2003-07, Co-PI (with Michael Tarr), $324,714.
National Institutes of Health (NIH), "Visual control of locomotion." 2003-2008, PI, $1,241,290.
NSF, "The geometry of spatial knowledge for navigation." 2009-12, PI, $456,663.
VA, "Virtual reality and motion analysis to characterize functional mobility in lower linb injury," 2009-13, Co-PI (with Roy Aaron), $1,000,000.
NIH, "Visual control of locomotion." 2008-13, PI, $1,323,260.
NSF, "Collective behavior of human crowds," 2014-17, PI, $270,117
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | PhD | University of Connecticut |
| 1979 | MA | University of Connecticut |
| 1976 | BA | Hampshire College |
| Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Edinburgh, psychology | 1983-1983 | Edinburgh, Scotland |
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellow, 1977-80
National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Research Service Award, 1983
Fulbright Research Scholar Award, 1989
W.L. Bryan Lecture in Cognitive Science, Indiana University, 1994
Faculty Colloquium, Brown University, 1995
Elizabeth Leduc Award for Teaching Excellence in the Life Sciences, 1995-96
James J. Gibson Lecture, Cornell University, 1997
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Research Career Development Award, 1997-2002
Professeur Invité, University of Paris, Orsay; 2001, 2011
Professeur Invité, University of Aix-Mariseille, 2002
Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, 2005
Astor Visiting Lecturer, Oxford University, 2008 (two week residency)
Distinguished Visitor, Hong Kong University, 2010 (two week residency)
Fellow, Society of Experimental Psychologists, 2012
Distinguished Scholar-Lecturer, University of Alberta, 2017
Foreign Expert, NYU-ECNU Joint Institute, Shanghai, 2018 (ten day residency)
Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Vision Science, Vision Sciences Society, 2023 [link]
President, International Society for Ecological Psychology, 2015-present
Board of Directors, International Society for Ecological Psychology, 1986-present
Review Committee, Vision Sciences Society, 2000-2016
NSF College of Reviewers
Member, National Science Foundation (NSF) Advisory Panel on Human Cognition and Perception, 1995-1998.
Committee of Visitation, NSF Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2003
Editorial Board, Ecological Psychology.
Ad Hoc Reviewer: Nature; Nature Neuroscience; Current Biology; PNAS; Journal of the Royal Society Interface; NeuroReport; Journal of Neuroscience; Journal of Vision; Vision Research; Perception; Perception and Psychophysics; Journal of the Optical Society of America A; Experimental Brain Research; Psychological Review; Psychological Science; Psychological Bulletin; Cognition; Cognitive Psychology; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance; Experimental Brain Research; Journal of Motor Behavior; Human Movement Science; Gait & Posture; Neural Computation; Adaptive Behavior; ACM Transactions on Applied Perception; IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics; IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; Philosophical Psychology; Developmental Psychology; Developmental Psychobiology; National Science Foundation; National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Mental Health; NWO (Netherlands); National Sciences and Research Council of Canada; The Wellcome Trust, England; Canada Council for the Arts.
I teach in the areas of visual perception, motor control, human cognition, ecological psychology, and research methods and statistics. Recent courses include:
CLPS 0510 Perception, Illusion, and the Visual Arts
CLPS 1500 Perception and Action
CLPS 1980 Independent study
CLPS 2001 Core Concepts in Cognitive and Psycyological Sciences I
| CLPS 1500 - Perception and Action |
| CLPS 2001 - Core Concepts in Cognitive and Psychological Sciences I |
