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My research
is concerned with spatially coordinated behavior, broadly
construed. My colleagues and I are particularly
interested in the ways one combines sensory and cognitive
skills to accomplish behavior in the spatial environment.
On the
cognitive side, some investigations are focused on the
way children and adults organize their spatial knowledge
and how they use that knowledge for finding their way and
for giving spatial directions to others. One new aspect
of this work is a study of how
elderly drivers maintain their orientation and find their
way to new locations. Investigation of the combining of
cognitive and sensory skills is exemplified by research
on how children use photographs and models of spatial
layout to help guide subsequent searches in the actual
layout.
On the
sensory and perceptual side, a central question in my
research is the identification of information for guiding
locomotion. One experimental approach involves altering
the normal relation between movement through the
environment and biomechanical effort such as happens when
walking on a people conveyor at an airport or walking on
an escalator. Such experience results in a recalibration
between motor output and visual distance.
Recent
publications
Pick, H. L., Jr., Rieser, J. J., Wagner, D., &
Ganng, A. E. (1999). The recalibration of rotational locomotion.
Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception and Performance
25, 1179‑1188.
Schwebel, D. C., Plumert, J. M., & Pick, H. L.,
Jr. (2000). Integrating basic and applied developmental research.
Child Development 71, 222‑230.
Manning, C., Sera, M,, & Pick, H. L. Jr. (2002).
Understanding how we think about space: An examination of the
meaning of English spatial prepositions. In: K.R.Coventry & P.
Olivier (Eds.): Spatial Language Cognitive and Computational
Perspectives pp. 147 ‑ 164. Dordrecht, NL: Kiuwer Academic
Publishers.
Pick, H.L., Jr. (2002). Mental maps. In W.
Kintsch (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Rieser, J.J. and Pick, H.L. Jr. (2002). The
Perception and Representation of Human Locomotion. In W. Prinz and
B. Hommel (Eds.), Attention and Performance XIX: Common
Mechanisms in Perception and Action Attention and performance
XIX. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Pick, H. L. Jr. (2003). Development and
learning: An historical perspective on acquisition of motor control.
Infant Behavior and Development 26, 441‑448.
Pick, H. L. Jr. (2004) Interrelation of
Perception, Action, and Cognition in Development: An Historical
Perspective. In I. Stockman (Ed.) Movement and Action in Learning
and Development pp 33-48. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Bruggeman, H. , Pick, H. L. Jr. & Rieser J. J.
(2005). Learning to throw on a rotating carousel: Recalibration
based on limb dynamics and projectile kinematics. Experimental
Brain Research 163, 188-197.
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