Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences
(812) 855-4322
gbingham@indiana.edu

Ph.D., University of Connecticut; 1985 (Experimental Psychology)

• Research Fellow, Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, University of Connecticut; 1/89 - 7/89
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, Trinity College, Hartford, CT; 9/88 - 5/89
• Research Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden; 5/88 - 6/88
  (Fellowship award for research in human cognition)
• N.I.H. Posdoctoral Trainee, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT; 4/85 - 3/88
  (N.I.H. Individual National Research Service Award for research in human perception and action)
• Senior Research Fellow, Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics, COINS Department, University of Massachusetts; 1984
  (Fellowship Award for research in perceptually guided manual activity)
• Fulbright-Hays Full Grant for Dissertation Research Abroad for research in event perception, 1982 - 1983
• Editorial board member:
  Journal of Experimental Psychology; Human Perception and Performance; Perception & Psychophysics; Ecological Psychology.
• Reviewer:
  Journal of Motor Behavior; Perception & Psychophysics; Optometry and Vision Science; Human Movement Science; Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers; National Science Foundation; Air Force Office of Scientific Research; Human Factors; Animal Behavior; Memory and Cognition; Developmental Psychobiology; Cognitive Science Society; Behavioral and Brain Sciences; Ecological Psychology; Journal of Experimental Psychology; Human Perception and Performance; Psychological Review.

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.

Haberlandt, K., and Bingham, G. (1978). Verbs contribute to the coherence of brief narratives.
Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 17(4), 419-426.

Haberlandt, K., and Bingham, G. (1982). The role of scripts in the comprehension and retention of texts.
Text, 2, 29-46.

Haberlandt, K., and Bingham, G. (1984). The effect of input direction on the processing of script statements.
Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 23(2), 162-177.

Iberall, T., Bingham, G.P., and Arbib, M.A. (1986). Opposition space as a structuring concept for the analysis of skilled hand movements.
Experimental Brain Research Series 15. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.

Bingham, G.P. (1987a). Kinematic form and scaling: Further investigations on the visual perception of lifted weight.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 13(2), 155-177.

Bingham, G.P. (1988a). Task specific devices and the perceptual bottleneck.
Human Movement Science, 7, 5-264.
Also in Kugler, P.N. (Ed.) (1989) Self-Organization in Human Action. Amsterdam: North-Holland.

Bingham, G.P., Schmidt, R.C., & Rosenblum, L.D. (1989). Hefting for a maximum distance throw: A smart perceptual mechanism.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 15(3), 507-528.

Bingham, G.P. (1990a). The role of a behavior in evolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13, 346-347.

Bingham, G.P. (1990b). The Active-Eye: Software for the demonstration of event perception phenomena on the Macintosh.
Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 22(4), 409-412.

Beek, P.J. & Bingham, G.P. (1991). Task-specific dynamics and the study of perception and action: A reaction to von Hofsten (1989).
Ecological Psychology, 3(1), 35-54.

Bingham, G.P., Schmidt, R.C., Turvey, M.T. & Rosenblum, L.D. (1991). Task dynamics and resource dynamics in the assembly of a coordinated rhythmic activity.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 17(2), 359-381.

Bingham, G. P. (1992). Perceiving the size of trees via their form. In J. Kruscke, (ed.)
Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 295-300. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Muchisky, M.M. & Bingham, G.P. (1992b). Perceiving size in events via kinematic form. In J. Kruscke, (ed.)
Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1002-1007. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Romack, J.L., Buss, R.A. & Bingham, G.P. (1992). "Adaptation" to displacement prisms is sensorimotor learning. In J. Kruscke, (ed.)
Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1080-1085. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Bingham, G.P. (1993a). Scaling judgments of lifted weight: Lifter size and the role of the standard.
Ecological Psychology, 5(1), 31-64.

Bingham, G.P. (1993b). Optical flow from eye movement with head immobilized: "Ocular occlusion" beyond the nose.
Vision Research, 33(5/6), 777-789.

Bingham, G.P. (1993c). The implications of ocular occlusion.
Ecological Psychology, 5(3), 235-353.

Bingham, G.P. (1993d). Perceiving the size of trees : Form as information about scale.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 19(6), 1-23.

Bingham, G.P. (1993e). Perceiving the size of trees: Biological form and the horizon ratio.
Perception & Psychophysics, 54 (4), 485-495.

Bingham, G.P. & Muchisky, M.M. (1993a ). Center of mass perception and inertial frames of reference.
Perception & Psychophysics, 54 (5), 617-632.

Bingham, G.P. & Muchisky, M.M. (1993b). Center of mass perception: Perturbation of symmetry.
Perception & Psychophysics, 54 (5), 633-639.

Bingham, G.P. & Stassen, M.G. (1994). Monocular egocentric distance information generated by head movement.
Ecological Psychology, 6(3), 219-238.

Bingham, G.P. & Muchisky, M.M. (1995). "Center of mass perception": Affordances as dispositions determined by dynamics.
In Flach, J.M., P. Hancock, J. Caird & K. Vicente (eds.), Global Perspectives on the Ecology of Human-Machine Systems, Volume 1. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Bingham, G.P. (1995). Dynamics and the problem of visual event recognition.
In Port, R. & T. van Gelder (eds.), Mind as Motion: Dynamics, Behavior and Cognition, (pp403-448). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Bingham, G.P., Rosenblum, L.D. & Schmidt, R.C. (1995). Dynamics and the orientation of kinematic forms in visual event recognition.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 21(6), 1473-1493.

Pagano, C.C. & Bingham, G.P. (1995). Spatial frames for motor control would be commensurate with spatial frames for vision and proprioception, but what of control for energy flows? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 18(4), 773.

Bingham, G.P. (1995). The role of perception in timing: Feedback control in motor programming and task dynamics.
In E. Covey, H. Hawkins, T. McMullen & R. Port (Eds.) Neural Representation of Temporal Patterns, pp. 129-157. New York: Plenum Press.

Bingham, G.P. & Pagano, C.C. (1998). The necessity of a perception/action approach to definite distance perception: Monocular distance perception to guide reaching.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24 , 145-168.

Pagano, C.C. & Bingham, G.P. (1998). Comparing measures of monocular distance perception: Verbal and reaching errors are not correlated.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24 (4), 1037-1051.

McConnell, D.S., Muchisky, M.M. & Bingham, G.P. (1998). The use of time and trajectory forms as visual information about spatial scale in events.
Perception & Psychophysics, 60 (7), 1175-1187.

Bingham, G.P., Schmidt, R.C. & Zaal, F. (1999). Visual perception of the relative phasing of human limb movements.
Perception & Psychophysics, 61(2), 246-258.

Bingham, G.P. & Romack, J.L. (1999). The rate of adaptation to displacement prisms remains constant despite acquisition of rapid calibration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25(5), 1331-1346.

Bingham, G.P. (2000). Events (like objects) are things, can have affordance properties, and can be perceived: A commentary on T.A. Stoffregen's "Affordances and events". Ecological Psychology, 12(1), 29-36.

Zaal, F., Bingham, G.P. & Schmidt, R.C. (2000). Visual perception of relative phase and phase variability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26(3), 1209-1220.

Wickelgren, E.A., McConnell, D. & Bingham, G.P. (2000). Reaching measures of monocular distance perception: Forward vs side-to-side head movements and haptic feedback. Perception & Psychophysics, 62(5), 1051-1059.

Bingham, G.P., Zaal, F., Robin, D. & Shull, J.A. (2000). Distortions in definite distance and shape perception as measured by reaching without and with haptic feedback. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26(4), 1436-1460.

Bingham, G.P., Zaal, F.T.J.M., Shull, J.A. and Collins, D.R. (2001). The effect of frequency on visual perception of relative phase and phase variability. Experimental Brain Research, 136, 543-552.

McMichael, K. & Bingham, G.P. (2001). Functional analysis of the senses is required to investigate the global array. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24 (2), 227-228.

Wickelgren, E. & Bingham, G.P. (2001). Infant sensitivity to trajectory forms. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27 (4), 942-952.

Bingham, G.P., McConnell, D.S. & Muchisky, M.M. (2001). Commentary on Jacobs and Michaels(2000): Calibration and perceptual learning in event perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 63 (3), 572-574.

Bingham, G.P. (2001). A perceptually driven dynamical model of rhythmic limb movement and bimanual coordination. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 75-79). Hillsdale, N.J., LEA Publishers.

Bingham, G.P., Bradley, A., Bailey, M., Vinner, R. (2001). Accommodation, occlusion and disparity matching are used to guide reaching: A comparison of actual versus virtual environments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27(6), 1314-1344.

Collins, D.R. & Bingham, G.P. (2001). How continuous is the perception of relative phase? InterJournal: Complex Systems, MS # 381.

Muchisky, M.M. & Bingham, G.P. (2002). Trajectory forms as a source of information about events. Perception & Psychophysics, 64(1), 15-31.

Twardy, C. & Bingham, G.P. (2002). Causation, causal perception and conservation laws. Perception & Psychophysics, 64(6). 956-968.

Lind, M., Bingham, G.P. & Forsell, C. (2002). The illusion of perceived 3D metric structure. Proceedings of the IEEE InfoVis Conference 2002.

Wilson, A.N. & Bingham, G.P. (in press). Dynamics, not kinematics, is an adequate basis for perception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Shull, J.A. & Bingham, G.P. (in press). Two visual systems must still perceive events. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

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

Bingham, G.P. & Zaal, F.T.J.M. (in press). 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.