Jeffrey Wagman
Professor
Psychology
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Office
Degarmo Hall - DEG DEG 413
Office Hours
by appointment
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- About
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Current Courses
390.043Advanced Research Apprenticeship
427.001Cognitive & Experimental Psychology Pro-Seminar
110.004Fundamentals Of Psychology
499.043Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
400.043Independent Study
290.043Special Projects: Research Apprenticeship
110.001Fundamentals Of Psychology
499.043Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
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
Book Review
Wagman, J. Is time merely a ghost? A review of The Psychology of Time Perception. (ISBN 978-1-137-40882-2) by John Weardon. PsyCritiques 61.43 (2016)
Wagman, J. 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.. PsyCRITIQUES 61.25 (2016)
Wagman, J. B. (2014). 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. PsyCRITIQUES 59(51).
Wagman, J. B. (2015). 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 Gentaz. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 8, 339-340.
Wagman, J. Are illusions illusory? A review of The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions. PsyCRITIQUES 62.(42)
Book, Authored
Blau, J., & Wagman, J. Introduction to Ecological Psychology: A lawful approach to perception-action-cognition. Routledge
Book, Chapter
Wagman, J., Blau, J., & Duffrin, T. Perception by effortful touch and a lawful approach to (the evolution of) perceiving and acting. Emiliano Bruner (EDs), Cognitive Archaeology, Body Cognition, and the Evolution of Visuospatial Perception. Elsevier: 25 – 51.
Wagman, J., Lozano, S., Jimenez, A., Covarrubias, P., & Cabrera, F. Perception of affordances in the animal kingdom and beyond. Aproximaciones al estudio del comportamiento y sus aplicaciones. Vol. II. University of Guadalajara: 70-108.
Wagman, J., & Thomas, B. The brain as a fractal antenna. In search for an alternative to the computer metaphor of the brain. Cambridge University Press
Conference Proceeding
Hajnal, A., Masoner, H., Clark, J., Dowell, c., Surber, T., Funkhouser, A., Doyon, J., Legradi, G., Samu, K., & Wagman, J. Multifractality of postural sway affects affordance perception of reachability in virtual reality. Studies in Perception & Action XV. Proceedings from the Twentieth International Conference on Perception and Action. Studies in Perception & Action XV. Proceedings from the Twentieth International Conference on Perception and Action (2019): 11-14.
Wagman, J., Langely, M., & Farmer-Dougan, V. Carrying their own weight: Dogs perceive dynamically changing affordances for reaching. yes. 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)
Bai, J., Carten, A., Wagman, J. B., Smith, P. J. K., & Day, B. M. (2015). Connecting the dots in perception of affordances for stepping. In J. Weast-Knapp, M. Malone, & D. Abney (Eds.). Studies in Perception and Action XIII. Proceedings from the Eighteenth International Conference on Perception and Action. (pp. 175-178). New York: Taylor and Francis Group.
Schloesser, D., Wagman, J., & Abney, D. Flip this rod: Changing grasp position can recalibrate perception of length by dynamic touc. Studies in Perception and Action XIII. Proceedings from the Eighteenth International Conference on Perception and Action. Taylor and Francis Group (2015): 149 -152.
Wagman, J. B., Stoffregen, T. A., & Caputo, S. E. (2015). Build your own tool: The what, why and how of a nested tool-making task. . In J. Weast-Knapp, M. Malone, & D. Abney (Eds.). Studies in Perception and Action XIII. Proceedings from the Eighteenth International Conference on Perception and Action. (pp. 211-214). New York: Taylor and Francis Group.
Journal Article
Dowell, C., Hajnal, A., Pouw, W., & Wagman, J. Visual and Haptic Perception of Affordances of Feelies. Perception 49.9 (2020): 905-925.
Masoner, H., Hajnal, A., Clark, J., Dowell, c., Surber, T., Funkhouser, A., Doyon, J., Legradi, G., Samu, K., & Wagman, J. Complexity of postural sway affects affordance perception of reachability in virtual reality. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2020)
Peker, A., Boge, V., Bailey, G., Wagman, J., & Stoffregen, T. Perception of Affordances in Soccer: Kicking for Power Versus Kicking for Precision. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (2020)
Peker, A., Erkmen, N., Kocaoglu, Y., Bayraktar, Y., Arguz, A., Wagman, J., & Stoffregen, T. Perception of affordances for vertical and horizontal jumping in children: Gymnasts versus non-athletes. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (2020)
Wagman, J., & Stoffregen, T. It doesn’t add up: Nested affordances for reaching are perceived as a complex particular. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics (2020)
Manuscript
Fitzpatrick, P., Wagman, J., & Schmidt, R. Alterations in movement dynamicws in a tool-use task: The role of action-relevant intertial tool properties.. Zeitschrift für Psychologie / Journal of Psychology 220 (2012): 23-28.
Wagman, J., & Abney, D. Transfer of recalibration from audition to touch: Modality independence as a special case of anatomical independence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance 38 (2012): 589-602.
Wagman, J., & Aspel, S. When can an object feel heavier than itself? Perceived heaviness of a wielded object depends on grasp position.. Perception 40 (2012): 1384-1386.
Presentations
Higher order affordances. International Conference on Perception and Action. International Society for Ecological Psychology. (2023)
Higher order affordances and direct perception. International Conference on Perception and Action. International Society for Ecological Psychology. (2023)
When it comes to affordances, what do animals know and how do they know it?. International Conference on Perception and Action. International Society for Ecological Psychology. (2023)
An introduction to an introduction to Ecological Psychology. North American Meeting of the International Society for Ecological Psychology. International Society for Ecological Psychology. (2022)
Perceiving multiple properties of a single rod-surface system. North American Meeting of the International Society for Ecological Psychology,. International Society for Ecological Psychology,. (2022)
Perception of higher-order affordances for kicking in soccer. North American Meeting of the International Society for Ecological Psychology. International Society for Ecological Psychology. (2022)
Tool use as detection and exploitation of information in an ecological niche. University of Connecticut. (2022)
You’re gonna need a bigger boat: feeling ‘fish’ length at the end of a ‘fishing line’. North American Meeting of the International Society for Ecological Psychology. International Society for Ecological Psychology. (2022)
Visual and haptic perception of affordances of Feelies. Vison Sciences Society. (2021)
It doesn’t add up. Nested affordances for reaching are perceived as a complex particular. International Conference on Perception and Action. (2020)
Grants & Contracts
Selective exploration in selective perception in probing hand and by foot. ISU Research and Sponsored Programs. Illinois State University. (2022)
Selective perception in probing by hand and by foot. Illinois State University (SFF). Illinois State University. (2020)