Gavin Buckingham

TL;DR: The visual properties of an object provide many cues as to the tensile strength, compliance, and density of the material from which it is made, and how they determine the initial forces that are applied when an object is picked up is examined.

TL;DR: This paper showed that adaptation to either masculine or feminine faces increases preferences for novel faces that are similar to those that were recently seen, which may reflect a proximate mechanism that contributes to the development of face preferences within individuals, underpins phenomena such as imprinting-like effects and condition dependent face preferences, and shapes personality attributions to faces that play an important role in romantic partner and associate choices.

TL;DR: Vision appears to be crucial for the detection, and subsequent correction, of the ostensibly non-visual grip and load force errors that are a common feature of this type of object interaction.

TL;DR: The dominant theories that have emerged over the past decade for why the authors consistently misperceive the weights of objects which vary in size are outlined, with a particular focus on the role of lifters’ expectations of heaviness.

TL;DR: The novel perceptual environment of VR may affect vision for action, by shifting users away from a dorsal mode of control, which may create a fundamental disparity between virtual and real-world skills that has important consequences for how the authors understand perception and action in the virtual world.