John W. Philbeck

 

Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
2125 G. Street, NW
The George Washington University
Washington, DC  20052
Telephone: (202) 994-6313

 

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 Publications:

 

Pothier, S., Philbeck, J. W., Chichka, D., & Gajewski, D. (in press). Tachistoscopic exposure and masking of real three-dimensional scenes. Behavior Research Methods.

Philbeck, J. W., Woods, A. J., Arthur, J., & Todd, J. (in press). Progressive locomotor recalibration during blind walking. Perception & Psychophysics.

Sargent, J., Dopkins, S., Philbeck, J. W., & Arthur, J. (in press). Exploring the process of progressive disorientation. Acta Psychologica.

Arthur, J., Philbeck, J. W., Sargent, J., & Dopkins, S. (in press). Misperception of exocentric directions in auditory space. Acta Psychologica.

Sargent, J., Dopkins, S., Philbeck, J. W., & Modarrez, R. (2008). Spatial memory during progressive disorientation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 34, 602-615.

Philbeck, J. W., Sargent, J., Arthur, J. A., & Dopkins, S. (2008). Large manual pointing errors, but accurate verbal reports, for indications of target azimuth. Perception, 37, 511-534.

Arthur, J. A., Philbeck, J.W., & Chichka, D. (2007). Spatial memory enhances the precision of angular self-motion updating. Experimental Brain Research, 183, 557-568.

Philbeck, J.W., Behrmann, M., Biega, T., & Levy, L. (2006). Asymmetrical perception of body rotation after unilateral injury to human vestibular cortex. Neuropsychologia, 44, 1878-1890.

Philbeck, J. W. (2006). Instructor's Manual with Tests (for Willingham, D. B., Cognition: The Thinking Animal, 3rd ed.) Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.

Herman, A.I., Kaiss, K.M., Ma, R., Philbeck, J.W., Hasan, A., Dasti, H., & Depetrillo, P.B. (2005). Serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism and monoamine oxidase type A VNTR allelic variants together influence alcohol binge drinking risk in young women. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 133B(1), 74-78.

Philbeck, J. W. & O'Leary, S. (2005). Remembered landmarks enhance the precision of path integration. Psicologica, 26, 7-24. .pdf

Isaacs, K. L., Philbeck, J. W., Barr, W. B., Devinsky, O., & Alper, K. (2004). Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior, 5,569-574. .pdf

Philbeck, J. W., O'Leary, S., & Lew, A. L. B. (2004). Large errors, but no depth compression, in walked indications of exocentric extent. Perception & Psychophysics, 66(3), 377-391. .pdf

Philbeck, J. W., Behrmann, M., Levy, L. & Potolicchio, Jr., S. J., & Caputy, A. J. (2004). Path integration deficits during linear locomotion after human medial temporal lobectomy. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16(4), 510-520. .pdf

Herman, A. I., Philbeck, J. W., Vasilopoulos, N. L., & DePetrillo, P. B. (2003). Serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism and differences in alcohol consumption behaviour in a college student population. Alcohol & Alcoholism, 38, 446-449. .pdf

Philbeck, J. W. (2003). Instructor's Manual with Tests (for Willingham, D. B., Cognition: The Thinking Animal, 2nd ed.) Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.

Loomis, J. M., Philbeck, J. W., & Zahorik, P. (2002) Dissociation between location and shape in visual space. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 1202-1212. .pdf

Philbeck, J. W., & Mershon, D. H.  (2002).  Knowledge about typical source output influences perceived auditory distance (L). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 111, 1980-1983. .pdf

Behrmann, M., & Philbeck, J. W.  (2001).  Spatial representation and updating:  Evidence from neuropsychological investigations.  In D. R. Montello (Ed.), Spatial information theory:  Foundations of geographic information science, pp. 352-370.  Proceedings of COSIT '01. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2205.  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag. .pdf

Philbeck, J. W., Behrmann, M., & Loomis, J. M.  (2001).  Updating of locations during whole-body rotations in patients with hemispatial neglect. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1, 330-343. .pdf

Philbeck, J. W., Klatzky, R. K., Behrmann, M., Loomis, J. M., & Goodridge, J. (2001). Active control facilitates non-visual navigation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 141-153. .pdf

Philbeck, J. W., Behrmann, M., Black, S. E., & Ebert, P. (2000). Intact spatial updating during locomotion after right posterior parietal lesions. Neuropsychologia, 38, 950-963. .pdf

Philbeck, J. W. (2000). Visually directed walking to briefly glimpsed targets is not biased toward fixation location. Perception, 29, 259-272. .pdf

Loomis, J. M., Klatzky, R. L., Golledge, R. G., & Philbeck, J. W. (1999). Human navigation by path integration. In R. G. Golledge (Ed.), Wayfinding: Cognitive mapping and spatial behavior. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press. .pdf

Klatzky, R. K., Beall, A. C., Loomis, J. M., Golledge, R., & Philbeck, J. W. (1999). Human navigation ability: Tests of the encoding-error model of path integration. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 1, 31-65. .pdf

Loomis, J. M., & Philbeck, J. W. (1999). Is the anisotropy of perceived 3-D shape invariant across scale? Perception & Psychophysics, 61, 397-402. .pdf

Loomis, J. M., Klatzky, R. K., Philbeck, J. W., & Golledge, R. (1998). Assessing auditory distance perception using perceptually directed action. Perception & Psychophysics, 60, 966-980. .pdf

Philbeck, J. W., Loomis, J. M., & Beall, A. C. (1997). Visually perceived location is an invariant in the control of action. Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 601-612. .pdf

Philbeck, J. W., & Loomis, J. M. (1997). Comparison of two indicators of perceived egocentric distance under full-cue and reduced-cue conditions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23, 72-85. .pdf

Loomis, J. M., Da Silva, J. A., Philbeck, J. W., & Fukusima, S. S. (1996). Visual perception of location and distance. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 5, 72-77. .pdf

Beall, A. C., Loomis, J. M., Philbeck, J. W., & Fikes, T. J. (1995). Absolute motion parallax weakly determines visual scale in real and virtual environments. Proceedings of Conference on Human Vision, Visual Processing, and Digital Display, 2411, 288-297. Bellingham, WA: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. .pdf
 
 

1b. Unpublished Manuscripts
 
Loomis, J.M., & Philbeck, J. W. (submitted). Measuring perception with spatial updating and action. Invited book chapter (refereed), to appear in: Embodiment, Ego-Space, and Action: The 34th Carnegie Symposium on Cognition. R. L. Klatzky, M. Berhmann, B. MacWhinney, Eds.

Philbeck, J. W., Behrmann, M., & Loomis, J. M. (Submitted manuscript under revision.) The perception of object distance and depth in visual form agnosia.

Philbeck, J. W. Processes underlying apparently paradoxical indications of extent. Unpublished doctoral dissertation.


C. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
 

Woods, A. J. & Philbeck, J. W. (2008). Comparison of rope-pulling and blindwalking as measures of perceived egocentric distance. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, May 12, 2008.

Gajewski, D. A., Philbeck, J. W., Chichka, D. F., & Potheir, S. F. (2008). Exploring the time course of egocentric distance perception with visual masking of a real-word environment. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, May 12, 2008.

Yamamoto, N., & Philbeck, J. W. (2008). Little evidence of perceptual depth compression when indicating extents by imagined walking. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, May 14, 2008.

Woods, A. J. & Philbeck, J. W. (2007) Does effort influence verbal reports of egocentric distance? Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, May 6, 2007.

Philbeck, J. W. & Woods, A. J. (2007) Does effort influence verbal reports of shape? Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, May 6, 2007.

Philbeck, J.W. & O'Leary, S. (2006) Path integration precision is increased near familiar locations. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, May 6, 2006.


Philbeck, J. W. (2005). Rapid recalibration of locomotion during non-visual walking. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, May, 2005.

Philbeck, J. W., OšLeary, S., & Lew, A. L. B. (2003). Path integration precision is doubled by the imagined proximity of previewed landmarks. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, May, 2003.

Philbeck, J. W. (2002). More errors in an action-based response: Blindfolded walking and the horizontal-vertical illusion. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, May, 2002.

Philbeck, J. W., Behrmann, M., Brown, S., Potolicchio, S. J., Levy, L., Richter, K., & Hall, J. (2002). Human path integration deficits after right medial temporal lobectomy. Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, April, 2002.

Hall, J. A., & Philbeck, J. W.  (2001).  Do we update locations more poorly when they pass behind us?  First annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, May, 2001.

Philbeck, J. W., & Loomis, J. (2000). Large errors in a visually directed walking task. Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, May, 2000.

Philbeck, J. W., Behrmann, M., & Loomis, J. (1999). Spatial updating during self-rotations after right posterior parietal lesions. Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA, November.

Philbeck, J. W. (1999). Walking without vision reflects distortions in perceived depth. Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, May, 1999.

Philbeck, J. W. & Behrmann, M. (1998). Parietal lobe role in monitoring locomotion-generated proprioception. Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Dallax, TX, November, 1998.

Philbeck, J. W., & Loomis, J. M. (1998). Motoric reproduction of distant extents is accurate even when initiated from the viewing point. Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, May, 1998.

Philbeck, J. W., & Loomis, J. M. (1997). Accurate blind walking to briefly glimpsed targets. Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, May, 1997.

Subbiah, I., Loomis, J. M., & Philbeck, J. W. (1996). Grasping the vertical-horizontal illusion: Control by endpoints or by extent? Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL, November, 1996.

Loomis, J.M., & Philbeck, J.W. Is visual space separable into shape and scale? (1996). Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, April, 1996.

Loomis, J. M., Beall, A. C., Klatzky, R. K., Golledge, R., & Philbeck, J. W. (1995). Evaluation of the sensory inputs to path integration. Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA, November, 1995.

Philbeck, J. W., Loomis, J. M., & Beall, A. C. (1995). Measurement of visually perceived egocentric distance under reduced- and full-cue conditions. Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, FL, May, 1995.

Beall, A. C., Loomis, J. M., & Philbeck, J. W. (1994). Absolute motion parallax weakly determines visual scale. Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sarasota, FL, May, 1994.

Loomis, J. M., & Philbeck, J. W. (1994). Distortion of visual space under full cues is not scale invariant. Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO, November, 11-13, 1994.

Klatzky, R. L., Loomis, J. M., Golledge, R., & Philbeck, J. W. (1993). Spatial perception of auditory and visual targets. Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Washington, DC, November, 1993.

Loomis, J. M., & Philbeck, J. W. (1993). Comparison of two indicators of perceived distance under full- and reduced-cue conditions. Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Washington, DC, November, 1993.

Philbeck, J. W., & Loomis, J. M. (1993). Open-loop walking is similar to verbal report of perceived distance under reduced cue conditions. Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sarasota, FL, May, 1993.