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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Motor Control
  • Perception-Action

Background:

  • Perceiving affordances is crucial for judging action possibility.
  • Action performance can be inherently variable, complicating perceptual judgments.
  • Practice enhances affordance perception, but its effectiveness with variable actions is unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if practice equally improves perceptual judgments for actions with differing performance variability.
  • To compare the impact of practice on affordance perception for walking versus throwing.

Main Methods:

  • Thirty adults judged affordances for walking and throwing through doorways.
  • Participants completed 75 practice trials for each action.
  • Performance variability was quantified, and judgment error was analyzed pre- and post-practice.

Main Results:

  • Throwing performance was more variable than walking.
  • Absolute judgment error decreased proportionally with practice for both actions.
  • Individual differences in performance variability did not correlate with judgment error.

Conclusions:

  • Practice effectively calibrates perceptual judgments for affordances, irrespective of action variability.
  • The findings suggest that practice benefits perceptual calibration even with mixed feedback inherent in variable actions.