Selected Publications
Vishton, P.M., Sephens, N.J., Nelson, L.A., Morra, S.E., Brunick, K.L., & Stevens, J.A. (2007). Planning to reach for an object changes how the reacher perceives it. Psychological Science, 18, 713-719. [PDF]
Reed, K., Peshkin, M., Hartman, M.J., Grabowecky, M., Patton, J., & Vishton, P.M. (2006). Haptically linked dyads: Are two motor-control systems better than one? Psychological Science, 17, 365-366. [PDF]
Vishton, P.M., Ware, E.A., & Badger, A.N. (2005). Different Gestalt processing for different actions?: Comparing object-directed reaching and looking time measures. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 90, 89-113. [PDF]
Vishton, P.M. (2005). Using kitchen appliance analogies to improve students' reasoning about neurological results.
Vishton, P.M. (2004). Human vision focuses on information that is relevant to a task, to the detriment of information that is not. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 53-54.
Vishton, P.M., & Fabre, E. (2003). Effects of the Ebbinghaus illusion on different behaviors: One- and two-handed grasping; One- and two-handed manual estimation; Metric and comparative judgment. Spatial Vision, 16, 377-392.
Vishton, P.M. (2002). The emperor's new modules. (Invited review of The New Phrenology: The Limits of Localizing Cognitive Processes in the Brain, by
Salada, M. A., Colgate, J. E., Lee, M. V., & Vishton, P. M. (2002). Fingertip haptics: A novel direction in haptic display. Proceedings of the The 8th Mechatronics Forum International Conference.
Salada, M. A., Colgate, J. E., Lee, M. V., & Vishton, P. M. (2002). Validating a novel approach to rendering fingertip contact sensations. Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Virtual Reality Haptics Symposium.
Vishton, P.M. (2002). The infant researcher's world. (Invited review of The Infant's World, by P. Rochat,
Vishton, P.M., Rea, J.G., Cutting, J.E., & Nuñez, L. (1999). Comparing effects of the horizontal-vertical illusion on grip scaling and judgment: Relative vs. absolute, not perception vs. action. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 1659-1672. [PDF]
Marcus, G., Vijayan, S., Rao, S., & Vishton, P.M. (1999). Rule learning by seven-month-old infants. Science, 283, 77-80.
Von Hofsten, C., Vishton, P.M., Spelke, E.S., Feng, Q., & Rosander, K. (1998). Predictive action in infancy: Tracking and reaching for moving objects. Cognition, 67, 255-285.
Cutting, J.E., Vishton, P.M., Fluckiger, M., Baumberger, M., & Gerndt, J.D. (1997). Heading and path information from retinal flow in naturalistic environments. Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 426-441.
Vishton, P.M., & Cutting, J.E. (1995). Wayfinding, displacements, and mental maps: Velocity fields are not typically used to determine one's aimpoint. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 21(5), 978-995.
Cutting, J.E., & Vishton, P.M. (1995). Perceiving layout: The integration, relative dominance, and contextual use of different information about depth. In Epstein, W., &
Cutting, J.E., Vishton, P.M., & Braren, P.A. (1995). How we avoid collisions with stationary and moving obstacles. Psychological Review, 102(4), 627-651.
Spelke, E.S., Vishton, P.M., & von Hofsten, C. (1994). Object perception, object-directed action, and physical knowledge in infancy. In Gazzaniga, M. (Ed.), The Cognitive Neurosciences.