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SESSION 2: from Wednesday 12 PM to Friday 14 

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Perception-action coupling in endoscopic surgery: A cognitive 
task analysis approach
Cynthia O. DOMINGUEZ, Robert J. B. HUTTON, John M. FLACH, 
and Daniel P. McKELLAR

Breaking the symmetry between spatial and joint phase space in 
interlimb coordination
Subhobrata MITRA and Polemnia G. AMAZEEN 

The detuning factor in elementary coordination dynamics 
David R. COLLINS

Perceiving the length of one rod by means of another 
Andrew PECK

Preschoolers' accuracy judging and jumping distances 
Carolyn F. PALMER, Amy CHINITZ, Michelle HAVEN, 
Emily GREINES, and Jennifer CHANDLER

Haptic decomposition is anchored in the inertia tensor 
Greg BURTON, Marie-Vee SANTANA, and Claudia CARELLO 

Intentional perceptual scaling means pi = 1 
Oded M. FLASCHER, Robert E. SHAW, Endre E. KADAR, and Thomas A. AROMIN 

Lower limb dynamics in human gait
Marc BOSCHKER

An affective system as a higher-order perceptual system 
Walter E. DAVIS

Visual guidance of discrete aiming movements 
Simone SPELLERBERG and Will SPIJKERS

Developmental of temporal stability in unimanual perception-action coupling 
Chiel M. J. M. VOLMAN and Reint H. GEUZE 

An active control paradigm for the study of heading perception 
Bernhard F. FREY

Force production and handwriting in Parkinson's disease 
Marcia SMITH and Wouter HULSTIJN

Perception, action, and the development of knowledge in infancy Gavin J. BREMNER

Spatial updating of object shape during real and imagined viewpoint change following visual preview
Michel-Ange AMORIM, Jack M. LOOMIS, and Sergio S. FUKUSIMA 

Perception of human emotions by persons with autism: 
Verbal and nonverbal sources of information
Katherine A. LOVELAND, Belgin TUNALI-KOTOSKI, Richard CHEN, 
Deborah PEARSON, Kristin BRELSFORD, and Julia ORTEGON 

The perception of self-produced leg movement in self versus 
object-oriented contexts by 3-5 month-old infants
Rachel MORGAN and Philippe ROCHAT

Functional stabilization of unstable fixed-points 
Paul TREFFNER and J. A. Scott KELSO

Fluid-specific dynamic stimulus variables available and useful 
for perceiving the amount of fluid in a non-transparent vessel 
shaken by a hand 
Gunnar JANSSON, Peter JUSLIN, Nils OLSSON, and Leo POOM 

Two-valuedness of spinors and perception by selective dynamic touch 
Michael T. TURVEY, Claudia CARELLO, Paula FITZPATRICK, 
Christopher C. PAGANO, and Endre E. KADAR

The effect of frequency detuning on learning to stabilize a dynamically 
unstable phase relation
Polemnia G. AMAZEEN

The size-weight illusion
Eric L. AMAZEEN

Experimental control of the nonlinear drift of coordination equilibria 
Eric L. AMAZEEN

How the future is specified: A hypothesis 
Nam-Gyoon KIM and Judith EFFKEN

Spatial orientation during locomotion without sight 
Gunnar JANSSON, Emily HOLMES, and Anders JANSSON 

Visual perception of object in motion: A developmental study 
Ana Maria PELLEGRINI, S. RODRIGUES, and Maria E. GONZALES 

Studies in cognitive maps
K. BRYSCH and John DICKINSON

The development of the representation-action link 
Geraldine van GYN

Prospective acoustic information for object pass by 
Terri ERWIN

Predetermined or emergent timing in reaching to pick up a moving object 
Frank T. J. M. ZAAL and Piet C. W. van WIERINGEN 

The use of impulse information in a coincident timing task 
Madeleine A. GREALY, Cathy M. CRAIG, and S. G. S. COLEMAN 

Preferred and absolute critical boundaries for visually-guided reaching 
Leonard S. MARK, Yang JIANG, Kristie HOLAHAN, Megan EISENBERG, 
Michael DUFFY, Michelle BOLL, and Jennifer ADAMS 

Observations on micro-exploration in everyday activities 
Masato SASAKI, Hiroyuki MISHIMA, Kentaro SUZUKI, 
and Masahiro OHKURA 

Postural reactions to a moving environment: Influence of ageing in adults 
Andre DELORME, Jean-Yves FRIGON, and Marie-Clothilde GROTHE 

Self-organization in the development of representation-action couplings 
Maria E. GONZALES, Elias ALVES, and Antonio M. SETTE 

Toward understanding long canes as perceptual tools: 
Tapping, scraping, and stirring to identify stuff by sound and touch 
David GUTH, John J. RIESER, and Loulee YEN 

Two experiments on the auditory and visual perception of kinetic event properties
Rainer GUSKI, Anke BLOBAUM, and Susanne HOWAHL 

Read my lips: Where? How? When? And so... What? 
Christian BENOIT, Christian ABRY, Marie-Agnes CATHIARD, 
Thierry GUIARD-MARIGNY, and Tahar LALLOUACHE

Representations in action: Pointing to a target with various representations 
Yves ROSSETTI and Celine REGNIER

Emotional state effects on the control of precision movement 
Filipe MELO

Weight-shifting strategy in below-knee amputees during lateral raising of the leg
Laurence MOUCHNINO, Marie-Laure MILLE, Marco CINCERA, 
Andre BARDOT, and Alain DELARQUE

A longitudinal study of the visual control of posture in infancy 
James L. ROSE and Bennett L. BERTENTHAL

A quantative study of parameters of control in approaching the water ski ramp 
Alain DUREY and Marie-Martine RAMANANTSOA 

Supra-postural control in a rotary optical flow 
Ludovic MARIN

A task dynamic approach to throwing skills 
Denis MOTTET, Marie-Agnes DUPUY, Marie-Martine RAMANANTSOA, 
Bernard PAVIS, Dominique ARTUS, and Hubert RIPOLL

A dynamical model for Fitts' task
Denis MOTTET and Reinoud J. BOOTSMA

Distance perception on a slope
Reinoud J. BOOTSMA, Gert Jan PEPPING, and Niels BONENKAMP 

Tremor and symmetry properties in bimanual coordination in Parkinson's disease 
Richard E. A. van EMMERIK and Robert C. WAGENAAR 

Intermodal perception of orientation during reaching 
Florent FOUQUE and Benoit G. BARDY

Head movement organization during the first year of 
independent walking 
Annick LEDEBT

Effects of environmental structure on the accuracy of interception 
Alain KOSSOKO

Binocular optical invariant(s) and interceptive actions 
Michel LAURENT, Gilles MONTAGNE, and Alain DUREY 

S-R compatibility with discrete and rhythmic movements 
John STINS and Claire F. MICHAELS

Biological motion perception of the moving point-lights attached 
on the back of a walker
Shigemasa SUMI

Timing in relay running
Alain BOYADJIAN

Visual timing of a striking action under varying approach conditions 
Valerie FAYT

Perspective flight-path displays and Time-to-wall-crossing 
Max MULDER, Erik THEUNISSEN, and Hans C. van der VAART 

Dynamic and postural preparation for tennis strokes: An analysis of 
stance in professional players
Vincent DECHELETTE and Yves GUIARD

Haptic perception of rod length: A case for relative realism 
Tin-Cheung CHAN

Fitts' law in cooperative two-person aiming 
Thierry FERRAND and Yves GUIARD

Effects of object shape and rotation on the pick-up of the two types of local tau
Mark A. SCOTT, Francois-Xavier LI, and Keith DAVIDS 

Translational motion and sound localization: In search of auditory parallax 
J. Terrell TUTEN and John B. PITTENGER

The perception of gender from complex body movement: Some effects 
of age and familarity
Rosalind A. CRAWLEY, James M. GOOD, Arthur W. STILL, 
and S. Stavros VALENTI 

Transposition phenomenon in visual motion perception: 
Towards a general framework
Alexander N. SOKOLOV, Walter H. EHRENSTEIN, and Marina A. PAVLOVA 

Reaction time during the grasp phase of a rugby ball catch 
Frank F. EVES and Rod CORBAN

Information processing while catching: a dual-task study 
Frank F. EVES and Rod CORBAN

Putative mechanisms involved in covert orienting: Catching attention 
Rod CORBAN and Frank F. EVES

Information available in nonvisual navigation 
Kiyohide ITO

A special perceptual technique of inspecting cans by tapping: A fieldwork 
Masahiro OKURA

Haptically perceiving the lengths of strings: Relation between 
the organization of exploratory movement and the perceptual performance 
Hiroyuki MISHIMA

Strategies of prehension in hemiplegic patients 
S. FUCHS, M. MOKHTARI, Agnhs ROBY-BRAMI, and B. BUSSEL 

Perception of catchableness by moving experts 
Raoul R. D. OUDEJANS, Claire F. MICHAELS, and Frank C. BAKKER 

Time perception and academic achievement 
Chris MYBURGH, Rina GROBLER, and Koos KOK 

The remainders after Ockham's shave
Klaus LANDWEHR

Human echolocation as a basic form of perception and action 
Thomas A. STOFFREGEN and John PITTENGER

Somatosensory contributions to the organisation of voluntary lower limb flexion 
M. GILLES, G. DIETRICH, and M.C. DO

Shake, rattle and roll: Non-visual information supports 
perception of number 
John B. PITTENGER, Rainer GUSKI, and Wolf D. Heine 

The effect of manipulating task constraints on manual aiming performance 
Simon BENNETT and Keith DAVIDS

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