Intercepting and avoiding collisions with moving objects are fundamental skills in daily life.
Anticipatory behavior is required because of significant delays in transforming sensory …

Under typical viewing conditions, human observers effortlessly recognize materials and infer
their physical, functional, and multisensory properties at a glance. Without touching …

Emphasizing causation as a functional relationship between variables, this book provides
comprehensive coverage on the basics of SEM. It takes readers through the process of …

The dynamics model, which is based on L. Talmy's (1988) theory of force dynamics,
characterizes causation as a pattern of forces and a position vector. In contrast to …

How do we perceive the visual motion of objects that are accelerated by gravity? We
propose that, because vision is poorly sensitive to accelerations, an internal model that …

This paper describes two psychophysical experiments which were conducted to evaluate
the influence of the control/display (C/D) ratio on the perception of mass of manipulated …

Introduction Intuitive physics explores how people without a formal instruction in physics
intuitively understand physical phenomena. After a general overview of the topics of current …

This review article explores the foundation of laypeople's understanding of the physical
world rooted in perceptual experience. Beginning with a concise historical overview of the …

Nonrigid materials, such as jelly, rubber, or sponge move and deform in distinctive ways
depending on their stiffness. Which cues do we use to infer stiffness? We simulated cubes of …

Inversion effect in biological motion perception has been recently attributed to an innate
sensitivity of the visual system to the gravity-dependent dynamic of the motion. However, the …