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Jeffrey Wagman

Professor
Psychology
Office
Degarmo Hall - DEG DEG 413
Office Hours
by appointment
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Current Courses

390.043Advanced Research Apprenticeship

427.001Cognitive & Experimental Psychology Pro-Seminar

110.004Fundamentals Of Psychology

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)