The selection and usage of information for perceiving and remembering intended and unintended object properties.

Abstract

The current study was designed to investigate the linkage between intention, attention, and information selection and detection. Two experiments determined whether the intention to perceive maximum overhead reaching height with the use of handheld rods with different rotational inertia resulted in the ability to remember the rods' heaviness after they were removed from view. Participants were partially successful at distinguishing the heaviness of rods but only when visual information was restricted and reaching height was perceived using the rods by dynamic touch. The results support an ecological approach to attention, and suggest that information picked up for perception can support the memory of other properties of the environment if their informational bases are related.

Perception of higher-order affordances for kicking in soccer.

“…Previous research has demonstrated that sport-specific personal and interpersonal affordances can be perceived in the context of both individual and team sports (Passos et al, 2012; Peker, Böge, et al, 2020; Peker, Erkmen, et al, 2020; Zheng et al, 2022). Moreover, previous research has shown that perception of higher-order affordances is not a simple additive combination of either properties of the animal or environment or lower-order affordances (Thomas et al, 2018; see also Thomas & Riley, 2014, 2015; Wagman & Stoffregen, 2020). Our results both build on and extend these findings by showing that (a) sport-specific combinations of personal and interpersonal constraints yield higher-order affordances and (b) that awareness of such higher-order affordances is not a simple additive combination of the constituent lower-order personal and interpersonal affordances.…”

“…For example, Wagman and Stoffregen (2020) showed that perceived maximum reaching heights both with and without a tool was not a simple additive combination of the perceived animal and environment properties that comprised that affordance (perceived shoulder height, perceived arm length, tool length). Similarly, perception of maximum jump-and-reach height is not a simple additive combination of perceived maximum stand-and-reach height and perceived maximum jump height (Thomas et al, 2018; see also Thomas & Riley, 2014, 2015; Wagman, Thomas, & McBride, 2019). In the present study, we investigated these issues in the context of higher-order affordances for kicking in soccer.…”

“…Our results also suggest that future studies of affordance perception might usefully be designed (in part) so as to allow for the evaluation of similar interaction effects that might implicate the perception of higher-order affordances. Wagman and Stoffregen (2020) argued that knowledge of higherorder affordances does not derive from internal (i.e., inferential) addition of the separate perception of component lower-order affordances but, rather, arises from direct perception of the higher-order affordances, as such (Thomas et al, 2018;Thomas & Riley, 2015). In the present study, the interactions observed in Experiment 1 and Experiment 2 are consistent with these arguments, and extend this logic to perception of higher-order interpersonal affordances that emerge from both personal and interpersonal constraints in the context of soccer.…”