Gauging possibilities for action based on friction underfoot.

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2007-10

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Standing and walking generate information about friction underfoot. Five experiments examined whether walkers use such perceptual information for prospective control of locomotion. In particular, do walkers integrate information about friction underfoot with visual cues for sloping ground ahead to make adaptive locomotor decisions? Participants stood on low-, medium-, and high-friction surfaces on a flat platform and made perceptual judgments for possibilities for locomotion over upcoming slopes. Perceptual judgments did not match locomotor abilities: Participants tended to overestimate their abilities on low-friction slopes and underestimate on high-friction slopes (Experiments 1-4). Accuracy improved only for judgments made while participants were in direct contact with the slope (Experiment 5), highlighting the difficulty of incorporating information about friction underfoot into a plan for future actions.

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10.1037/0096-1523.33.5.1145

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Joh, Amy S, Karen E Adolph, Priya J Narayanan and Victoria A Dietz (2007). Gauging possibilities for action based on friction underfoot. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 33(5). pp. 1145–1157. 10.1037/0096-1523.33.5.1145 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/6641.

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