Indiana University Bloomington

Dr. Geoffrey P. Bingham


Professor of Psychology

 

 

 



Contact Information

Office: PY 322
Office Phone: 812-855-4322
Lab: PY A326
Lab Phone:812-855-1544
E-mail:

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Web site: Perception/Action Lab

 

Educational Background

  • 1985 - Ph.D., University of Connecticut

Areas of Study

  • Cognitive Science

Research Topics

  • Human visual and haptic perception
  • Event perception
  • Coordination and control of motor activity
  • Visually guided reaching

Research Summary:

We pursue two related programs of research in the Perception/Action Lab. The first is visual event perception in which we investigate the qualitative properties of trajectories that can be detected and used as visual information about events. We also study the dynamical constraints that produce specific types of trajectories and the relation of these constraints to the perceived properties of events. For instance, might dynamical constants allow observers to judge event sizes and distances via trajectory forms? Finally, we study how movements might provide information allowing events to be recognized.

The second program of research is on visually guided reaching. Here we integrate work on Structure-from-Motion and Stereo vision with perception/action research. Visual and haptic perception of egocentric distance, object size and shape are investigated using reaching measures. Another focus is on perceptual variables used to guide an ongoing reach. We are investigating whether temporal optical variables are used to guide the hand to the appropriate distance and direction of a target and if so, how such variables might be integratedwith an equilibrium point model of arm control.

Representative Publications

Published Papers

in press - Mon-Williams, M. & Bingham, G.P. Onotological issues in distance perception: Cue use under full cue conditions cannot be inferred from use under controlled conditions. Perception & Psychophysics.

in press - Bingham, G.P. & Lind, M. Large continuous perspective transformations are necessary and sufficient for perception of metric shape. Perception & Psychophysics.

in press - Wilson, A. & Bingham, G.P. A Perception/Action Approach to Rhythmic Movement Coordination II: Perturbations of Relative Position, Speed and Direction to Perturb Phase Perception. Perception & Psychophysics.

in press - Zhu, Q. & Bingham, G.P. Is hefting to perceive affordances for throwing is a smart perceptual mechanism? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

in press - Bingham, G.P., Hughes, K., & Mon-Williams, M. Grasping coordination with both hands: Information demands asynchronous timing. Experimental Brain Research.

in press - Coats, R., Bingham, G.P. & Mon-Williams, M. Reaching with feeling: somatosensory feedback calibrates reaching and grasping. Experimental Brain Research.

in press - Wickelgren, E. & Bingham, G.P. Trajectory forms as information for visual event recognition: 3D perspectives on path shape and speed profile. Perception & Psychophysics.

in press - Bingham, G.P. & Wickelgren, E.A. Events and Actions as dynamically molded spatial-temporal objects: A critique of the motor theory of biological motion perception. In T. Shipley & J. Zacks (Eds.) Event Perception, Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.

2007 - Large, E. & Bingham, G.P. Report of the workgroup on behavioral and social dynamics. In K.S. Anderson & R. Shoureshi, New Frontiers in Dynamics Systems: Report of the Multi-Agency Workshop on Future Directions and Needs in Dynamics and Dynamic Systems, NSF publications: Arlington, VA.

2007 - Mon-Williams, M. & Bingham, G.P. Calibrating reach distance to visual targets. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33(3), 645-656.

2007 - Bingham, G.P., Coats, R. & Mon-Williams, M. Unnatural prehension to virtual objects is not inevitable if calibration is allowed. Neuropsychologia, 45, 288-294.

2005 - Wilson, A. & Bingham, G.P. Human movement coordination implicates relative direction as the information for relative phase. Experimental Brain Research, 165, 351-361.

2005 - Bingham, G.P.. Allometry and space perception: Compression of optical ground texture yields decreasing ability to resolve differences in spatial scale. Ecological Psychology, 17(3&4), 193-204.

2005 - Wilson, A. & Bingham, G.P. Perceptual coupling in rhythmic movement coordination – stable perception leads to stable action. Experimental Brain Research, 164, 517-528.

2005 - Bingham, G.P. Calibration of distance and size does not calibrate shape information: Comparison of dynamic monocular and static and dynamic binocular vision. Ecological Psychology, 17(2), 55-74.

2004 - Bingham, G.P. & Zaal, F.T.J.M. Why t is probably not used to guide reaches. In H. Hecht & G.J.P. Savelsbergh (Eds.) Theories of Time-to-Contact. Boston: MIT Press.

2004 - Bingham, G.P. Another timing variable composed of state variables: Phase pereption and phase driven oscillators. In H. Hecht & G.J.P. Savelsbergh (Eds.) Theories of Time-to-Contact. Boston: MIT Press.

2004 - Bingham, G.P. A perceptually driven dynamical model of bimanual rhythmic movement (and phase perception). Ecological Psychology, 16(1),45-53.

2004 - Bingham, G.P., Crowell, J.A. & Todd, J.T. Distortions of distance and shape ar not produced by a single continuous transformation of reach space. Perception & Psychophysics, 66(1), 152-169.

2004 - Wickelgren, E.A. & Bingham, G.P. Perspective distortion of trajectory forms and perceptual constancy in visual event identification. Perception & Psychophysics, 66, 629-641.


Published abstracts

2007 - Bingham, G.P. & Anderson, J. (2007). A binocular Tau-dot model for guiding reaches. Journal of Vision, 7, 159a.

2007 - Anderson, J. & Bingham, G.P. Evidence for the use of a binocular Tau-dot strategy in visually guided reaching. Journal of Vision, 7, 158a.

2007 - Lee, Y., Lind, M., & Bingham, G.P. Shape perception is merely ambiguous, not systematically distorted. Journal of Vision, 7, 842a.

2006 - Thakur, S., Hanson, A. & Bingham, G.P. Active visualization methods enable percpetion of structure from motion in higher dimensional spaces: Comparing active and passive perception of the rigidity of 3D and 4D objects. Journal of Vision, 6(6), 864a.

2005 - Bingham, G.P., Mon-Williams, M., Jarrahi, B. & Vinner, R. Cue use under full cue conditions cannot be inferred from use under controlled conditions. Journal of Vision, 5, 405a.

2005 - Wilson, A.D., Collins, D.R. & Bingham, G.P. Human movement coordination implicates relative direction as the information for relative phase. Journal of Vision, 5, 346a.

2005 - Mon-Williams, M., & Bingham, G.P. Task constraints alter prehension movements qualitatively and quantitatively. Journal of Vision, 5, 124a.

2005 - Lee, Y.L., Norman, J.F., Crabtree, C., & Bingham, G.P. Calibration of shape perception used to guide reaches-to-grasp. Journal of Vision, 5, 122a.

2004 - Mon-Williams, M., Coats, R., & Bingham, G.P. Reaching with feeling. Journal of Vision, 4(8), 411a.

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