Jeffrey Wagman

Professor

Office

DEG Degarmo Hall 413

Office Hours

by appointment

Office Phone

(309) 438-7888office
phone

jbwagma@ilstu.eduemail

Website

about.illinoisstate.edu/jbwagmawebsite

About
Education
Awards & Honors
Selected Research

Current Courses

PSY 253.001 Cognition & Learning

PSY 427.001 Cognitive & Experimental Psychology Pro-Seminar

PSY 290.043 Special Projects: Research Apprenticeship

PSY 390.043 Advanced Research Apprenticeship

PSY 499.043 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis

PSY 400.043 Independent Study

PSY 290.043 Special Projects: Research Apprenticeship

Teaching Interests & Areas

Introduction to Psychology; Perception; Cognition and Learning; Cognitive Science

Research Interests & Areas

Perception-action; ecological psychology; Haptic perception and tool use; Perceptual learning; Perception of affordances

Ph D Experimental Psychology

University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut, USA

Illinois State University Outstanding University Researcher

Illinois State University

2018

Psychology Department Nominee for Outstanding College Researcher

Illinois State University

2017

Outstanding College Researcher

Illinois State University

2017

International Travel Grant

College of Arts and Sciences

2017

Illinois State University Sabbatical Award

Illinois State University

2016

International Travel Grant

College of Arts and Sciences

2016

Department Nominee for Janice Witherspoon Neuleib Award for Outstanding Achievement of the Year by a Tenured Faculty Member

Department of Psychology, ISU

2015

Grants and Contracts

Selective exploration in selective perception in probing hand and by foot

Jeffrey Wagman

ISU Research and Sponsored Programs. July 1 2022 - 2023

Selective perception in probing by hand and by foot

Jeffrey Wagman

Illinois State University (SFF). July 2020 - June 2021

Book Review

Is time merely a ghost? A review of The Psychology of Time Perception. (ISBN 978-1-137-40882-2) by John Weardon

Wagman, J.

(2016), 61, PsyCritiques

The relative dangers of charging bulls and paintings of charging bulls. A review of Art and Illusionists. (ISBN 978-3-319-25227-8) by Nicholas Wade.

Wagman, J.

(2016), 61, PsyCRITIQUES

Taking the other Cinderella to the ball. A review of Psychology of Touch and Blindness (ISBN 978-1-84872-653-6) by Morton A. Heller and Edouard Genta

Wagman, J.

(2015), 8, 339-340, IEEE Transactions on Haptics

Toward a more fiscally responsible theory of visual perception. A review of The Innocent Eye: Why Vision is Not a Cognitive Process (ISBN 978-0-19-937503-5) by Nico Orlandi

Wagman, J.

(2015), 59, PsyCritiques

Are illusions illusory? A review of The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions

Wagman, J.

62, PsyCRITIQUES

Book, Authored

Introduction to Ecological Psychology: A lawful approach to perception-action-cognition

Blau, J., & Wagman, J.

Routledge

Book, Chapter

Perception by effortful touch and a lawful approach to (the evolution of) perceiving and acting

Wagman, J., Blau, J., & Duffrin, T.

25 – 51, Cognitive Archaeology, Body Cognition, and the Evolution of Visuospatial Perception, Elsevier

Perception of affordances in the animal kingdom and beyond

Wagman, J., Lozano, S., Jimenez, A., Covarrubias, P., & Cabrera, F.

70-108, Aproximaciones al estudio del comportamiento y sus aplicaciones. Vol. II, University of Guadalajara

The brain as a fractal antenna

Wagman, J., & Thomas, B.

In search for an alternative to the computer metaphor of the brain, Cambridge University Press

Conference Proceeding

Multifractality of postural sway affects affordance perception of reachability in virtual reality

Hajnal, A., Masoner, H., Clark, J., Dowell, c., Surber, T., Funkhouser, A., Doyon, J., Legradi, G., Samu, K., & Wagman, J.

Studies in Perception & Action XV. Proceedings from the Twentieth International Conference on Perception and Action, 11-14, (2019)

Carrying their own weight: Dogs perceive dynamically changing affordances for reaching

Wagman, J., Langely, M., & Farmer-Dougan, V.

Studies in Perception and Action XIV. Proceedings from the Nineteenth International Conference on Perception and Action. (pp. 93-95). New York: Taylor and Francis Group., (2017)

Build your own tool: The what, why and how of a nested tool-making tas

Wagman, J., Stoffrege, T., & Caputo, S.

Taylor and Francis Group, 211-214, (2015)

Connecting the dots in perception of affordances for stepping

Bai, J., Carten, A., Wagman, J., Smith, P., & Day, B.

Taylor and Francis Group, 175-178, (2015)

Flip this rod: Changing grasp position can recalibrate perception of length by dynamic touc

Schloesser, D., Wagman, J., & Abney, D.

Taylor and Francis Group, 149 -152, (2015)

Journal Article

Complexity of postural sway affects affordance perception of reachability in virtual reality

Masoner, H., Hajnal, A., Clark, J., Dowell, c., Surber, T., Funkhouser, A., Doyon, J., Legradi, G., Samu, K., & Wagman, J.

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, (2020)

It doesn’t add up: Nested affordances for reaching are perceived as a complex particular

Wagman, J., & Stoffregen, T.

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, (2020)

Perception of Affordances in Soccer: Kicking for Power Versus Kicking for Precision

Peker, A., Boge, V., Bailey, G., Wagman, J., & Stoffregen, T.

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, (2020)

Perception of affordances for vertical and horizontal jumping in children: Gymnasts versus non-athletes

Peker, A., Erkmen, N., Kocaoglu, Y., Bayraktar, Y., Arguz, A., Wagman, J., & Stoffregen, T.

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, (2020)

Visual and Haptic Perception of Affordances of Feelies

Dowell, C., Hajnal, A., Pouw, W., & Wagman, J.

Perception, 49 (9), 905-925, (2020)

Sensitivity to changes in dynamic affordances for walking on land, and at sea

Walter, H., Peterson, N., Ruixuan , L., Wagman, J., & Stoffregen, T.

PLOS ONE, (2019)

Where is your head? Perception of relative position of the head on a wielded object.

Wagman, J., & Higuchi, T.

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81, 1488-1499, (2019)

Is perception of stand-on-able-ness equivalent across degrees of dynamic touch?

Hajnal, A., Wagman, J., Doyon, J., & Clark, J.

American Journal of Psychology, 131, 141-149, (2018)

Remembering and perceiving affordances for others are continuous processes

Wagman, J., Thomas, B., & McBride, D.

Experimental Psychology, (2018)

Doggone affordances: Canine perception of affordances for reaching

Wagman, J., Langley, M., & Farmer-Dougan, V.

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24, 1097 – 1103., (2017)

Dynamic perception of dynamic affordances: Walking on a ship at sea

Walter, H., Wagman, J., Stergiou, N., Erkmen, N., & Stoffregen, T.

Experimental Brain Research, 235, 517-524, (2017)

Lengths of objects perceived through dynamic touch remain invariant across changes in the medium

Mangalam, M., Barton, S., Wagman, J., Fragaszy, D., & Newell, K.

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79, 2499-2509, (2017)

Hierarchical nesting of affordances in a tool use task

Wagman, J., Caputo, S., & Stoffregen, T.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 42, 1771-1780, (2016)

Nesting in perception of affordances for stepping and leaping

Wagman, J., Bai, J., & Smith, P.

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 78, 1771-1780, (2016)

Perception of stand-on-ability: Do geographical slants feel steeper than they look?

Hajnal, A., Wagman, J., Doyon, J., & Clark, J.

Perception, 45, 768-786, (2016)

Sensitivity to hierarchical relations among affordances in the assembly of asymmetric tools

Wagman, J., Caputo, S., & Stoffregen, T.

Experimental Brain Research, (2016)

Use your head! Perception of action possibilities by means of an object attached to the head

Wagman, J., & Hajnal, A.

243, 829-836, (2016)

As easy to move as a feather: Perception of ‘lightness’ as ‘ease to move.’

Wagman, J.

Journal of Motor Behavior, 47, 340-342, (2015)

Direct learning in auditory perception: An information space analysis of auditory perceptual learning of object length

Abney, D., & Wagman, J.

Ecological Psychology, 27 (335-356), (2015)

Perception of maximum stepping and leaping distance: Stepping affordances as a special case of leaping affordance

Day, B., Wagman, J., & Smith, P.

Acta Psychologica, 158, 26-35, (2015)

Use your head! Perception of action possibilities by means of an object attached to the head

Wagman, J., & Hajnal, A.

Experimental Brain Research, (2015)

Changing grasp position on a wielded object provides self-training for the perception of length

Abney, D., Wagman, J., & Schneider, W.

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 76 (1), 247–254, (2014), 10.3758/s13414-013-0550-x

Perception of maximum reaching height reflects impending changes to reaching ability and improvements transfer to unpracticed reaching tasks.

Wagman, J.

Experimental Brain Research, 219, 467-476, (2012)

Perception of maximum reaching height when the means of reaching are no longer in view.

Wagman, J., Thomas, B., McBride, D., & Day, B.

Ecological Psychology, (25), 63-80, (2012)

Perceptual experience and post-test improvements in perceptual accuracy and consistency

McBride, D., Wagman, J., & Trefzger, A.

Perception and Psychophysics, 70, 1060-1067, (2008)

Manuscript

Alterations in movement dynamicws in a tool-use task: The role of action-relevant intertial tool properties.

Fitzpatrick, P., Wagman, J., & Schmidt, R.

Zeitschrift für Psychologie / Journal of Psychology, 220, 23-28, (2012)

Transfer of recalibration from audition to touch: Modality independence as a special case of anatomical independence

Wagman, J., & Abney, D.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 38, 589-602, (2012)

When can an object feel heavier than itself? Perceived heaviness of a wielded object depends on grasp position.

Wagman, J., & Aspel, S.

Perception, 40, 1384-1386, (2012)

Presentations

Higher order affordances

Jeffrey Wagman, Thomas Stoffregen

International Conference on Perception and Action, Guadalajar, Jalisco, Mexico, June, 2023

Higher order affordances and direct perception

Thomas Stoffregen, Jeffrey Wagman

International Conference on Perception and Action, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, June, 2023

When it comes to affordances, what do animals know and how do they know it?

Jeffrey Wagman, Tyler Duffrin, Thomas Stoffregen

International Conference on Perception and Action, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, June, 2023

An introduction to an introduction to Ecological Psychology

Jeffrey Wagman, Julia Blau

North American Meeting of the International Society for Ecological Psychology, Hattiesburg, MS, June, 2022

Perception of higher-order affordances for kicking in soccer

Jeffrey Wagman, George Bailey, A T Peker, V Boge, Thomas Stoffregen

North American Meeting of the International Society for Ecological Psychology, Hattiesburg, MS, June, 2022

You’re gonna need a bigger boat: feeling ‘fish’ length at the end of a ‘fishing line’

Jeffrey Wagman, Tyler Duffrin

North American Meeting of the International Society for Ecological Psychology, Hattiesburg, MS, June, 2022

Perceiving multiple properties of a single rod-surface system

Jeffrey Wagman, Tyler Duffrin

North American Meeting of the International Society for Ecological Psychology,, Hattiesbiurg, MS, June, 2022

Tool use as detection and exploitation of information in an ecological niche

Jeffrey Wagman

University of Connecticut, Srorrs, CT, April, 2022

Visual and haptic perception of affordances of Feelies

Catherine Dowell, Alen Hajnal, Wim Pouw, Jeffrey Wagman

Vison Sciences Society, St. Pete's Beach, Florida, May, 2021

It doesn’t add up. Nested affordances for reaching are perceived as a complex particular

Jeffrey Wagman, Thomas Stoffregen

International Conference on Perception and Action, Cincinnati, OH, July, 2020

Selective perception in probing by foot: Perceiving the length of a probe and the distance of a probed surface.

Jeffrey Wagman, Stephanie Hartling

International Conference on Perception and Action, Cincinnati, Ohio, July, 2020

Visual and haptic perception of affordance properties of feelies

C Dowell, A Hajnal, W Pouw, Jeffrey Wagman, T Surber, J Clark

Annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana., June, 2020

Visual and haptic perception of affordances of Feelies

C Dowell, A Hajnal, W Pouw, Jeffrey Wagman

Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete’s Beach, Florida, June, 2020

Dogs in the gray zone: Canine perception for going over or under a barrier

Sarah Lozano, Jeffrey Wagman, John Franchak, Valeri Farmer-Dougan

International Canine Sciences Conference, Pheonix, November, 2019

Perception of affordances in the animal kingdom and beyond

Jeffrey Wagman

Seminario internacional sobre comportamiento y aplicaciones (International seminar on behavior and applications)., Gudalajara, Mexico, November, 2019

Visual and haptic perception of affordances of Feelies

Catherine Dowell, Alen Hajnal, Wim Pouw, Jeffrey Wagman

Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete's Beach, Florida, November, 2019

Dogs in the gray zone: Canine perception for going over or under a barrier

Sarah Lozano, Jeffrey Wagman, John Franchak, Valeri Farmer-Dougan

American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, August, 2019

Body sway is sufficient for perception of changes in affordances for walking

Nicolette Peterson, Hannah Walter, R Li, Jeffrey Wagman, Thomas Stoffregen