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Time-to-Contact

Hecht, Heiko; Savelsbergh, Geert

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Table of contents
  • Coveriii
  • Table of contentsvii
  • 1. Theories of time-to-contact judgment1
  • Part I: Foundations of Time-to-Contact13
  • 2. The biological bases of time-to-collision computation13
  • 3. Building blocks for time-to-contact estimation by the brain39
  • 4. Predicting motion: A psychophysical study53
  • 5. Collisions: Getting them under control67
  • Part II: Different behavioral approaches to Time-to-Contact estimation93
  • 6. Optical information for collision detection during deceleration93
  • 7. Interceptive action: What's time-to-contact got to do with it?109
  • 8. The information-based control of interceptive timing: A developmental perspective141
  • 9. A step by step approach to research on time-to-contact and time-to-passage173
  • 10. Textured Tau229
  • Part III: Time-to-Contact as Perception and Strategy243
  • 11. Multiple sources of information influence time-to-contact judgments: Do heuristics accommodate l243
  • 12. How now, broad Tau?287
  • 13. The use of binocular time-to-contact information303
  • 14. Interception of projectiles, from when & where to where once327
  • 15. Acoustic information for timing355
  • Time-to-Contact and Action Regulation371
  • 16. Why tau is probably not used to guide reaches371
  • 17. The use of time-to-contact information for the initiation of hand closure in natural prehension389
  • 18. Another timing variable composed of state variables: Phase perception and phase driven oscillato421
  • 19. The fallacious assumption of time-to-contact perception in the regulation of catching and hittin443
  • 20. How time-to-contact is involved in the regulation of goal-directed locomotion475
  • Subject Index493
  • Author Index497
Book details
  • Vendor Elsevier S & T
  • SKU 9780444510457
  • ISBN-13 9780080481388
  • Author Hecht, Heiko; Savelsbergh, Geert
  • Category Psychology
  • Subject Physiological Psychology

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Time-to-contact is the visual information that observers use in fundamental tasks such as landing an airplane or hitting a ball. Time-to-contact has been a hot topic in perception and action for many years and although many articles have been published on this topic, a comprehensive overview or assessment of the theory does not yet exist. This book fills an important gap and will have appeal to the perception and action community. The book is divided into four sections. Section one covers the foundation of time-to-contact, Section two covers different behavioral approaches to time-to-contact estimation, Section three focuses on time-to-contact as perception and strategy, and Section four covers time-to-contact and action regulation.