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Title Closing the Gap : the Scientific Writings of David N. Lee
Published Mahwah, New Jersey : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (649 pages)
Contents Front Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Credits; Foreword; Chapter 1: Moving Experiences: Perceiving As Action With a Sense of Purpose; A Theory of Visual Control of Braking Based on Information About Time-to-Collision (Lee, 1976); The Optic Flow Field: The Foundation of Vision (Lee, 1980); Chapter 2: The Ubiquitous Nature of Tau; Visual Control of Velocity of Approach by Pigeons When Landing (Lee, Davies, Green, & Van der Weel, 1993); Chapter 3: Thinking Tau: The Emergence of Intrinsic Guidance; Guiding Movement by Coupling Taus (Lee, 1998)
Chapter 4: A Tribute to TauSensory and Intrinsic Coordination of Movement (Lee, Craig, & Grealy, 1999); Chapter 5: Navigation; The Functions of Vision (Lee, 1978); Chapter 6: Ideas on the Development and Control of Actions; Perception Action Approach to Cerebral Palsy (Lee, Von Hofsten, & Cotton, 1997); Chapter 7: Action-Scaled Information for the Visual Control of Locomotion; Visuo-Motor Coordination in Space-Time (Lee, 1980); Chapter 8: Promoting the Development of Pedestrian Traffic Skills in Young Children
Training Children in Road Crossing Skills Using a Roadside Simulation (Young & Lee, 1987)Chapter 9: The Rate of Change of Tau; Measuring Dysfunction of Basic Movement Control in Cerebral Palsy (Van der Weel, Van der Meer, & Lee, 1996); Detecting Motor Abnormalities in Pre-Term Infants (Craig, Grealy, & Lee, 2000); Contributors; Author Index; Keyword Index
Summary This book is a collection of Lee's most important works, placed in a historical setting and contextualized through the commentaries of other leading researchers in the field. The contributors were selected on the basis of their standing in the field. Some have been directly involved in collaborations with Lee, while others have participated in public discussions on particular controversies. All contributors know David Lee well as a researcher and scholar, and some know him on a more personal level-as a student, supervisor, mentor, or friend. It is this mixture of involvements with David Lee an
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Subject Lee, David N. -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Lee, David N. fast
Subject Perception -- Physiology
Perceptual-motor processes.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology.
Perceptual-motor processes
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Pepping, Gert-Jan.
Grealy, Madeleine A.
ISBN 9781135592295
1135592292