John W. Philbeck

 

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

 

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 Publications:

 

Wallin, C., Gajewski, D., Teplitz, R., Mihelic Jaidzeka, S., & Philbeck, J. W. (2017). The roles for prior visual experience and age on the extraction of egocentric distance. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 72(1), 91-99.

Varner, K., Dopkins, S. & Philbeck, J. (2016). Aging and the effects of exploratory behavior on spatial memory. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 82, 188-208.

Philbeck, J. & Witt, J. K. (2015). Action-specific influences on perception and post-percetual processes: Present controversies and future directions. [[Both authors contributed equally]] Psychological Bulletin, 141, 1120-1144.

Gajewski, D., Wallin, C., & Philbeck, J. (2015). The effects of age and set size on the fast extraction of egocentric distance. Visual Cognition, 23, 957-988.

Varner, K., Dopkins, S., Kim, H. K., & Philbeck, J. (2015). Recall of scenes encoded from opposing viewpoints. Psychology & Neuroscience, 7, 407-416.

Kramer, B., Philbeck, J., Dopkins, S., Hoyer, D., Sargent, J. Q., & Perry, J. (2015). Getting completely turned around: How disorientation impacts subjective straight-ahead. Memory & Cognition, 43, 143-150.

Gajewski, D., Wallin, C., & Philbeck, J. (2014). Gaze direction and the extraction of egocentric distance. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 76, 1739-1751.

Yamamoto, N., Philbeck, J., Woods, A. J., Gajewski, D. A., Arthur, J. C., Potolicchio, Jr., S. J., Levy, L., & Caputy, A. J. (2014). Medial temporal lobe roles in human path integration. PLoS ONE, 9(5):e96583.

Chichka, D., Philbeck, J., & Gajewski, D. (2014). Tachistoscopic illumination and masking of real scenes. Behavioral Research Methods. Online ISSN: 1554-3528.

Gajewski, D., Wallin, C. P., & Philbeck, J. (2014). Gaze behavior and the perception of egocentric distance. Journal of Vision, 14(1):20, 1-19.

Gajewski, D., Philbeck, J., Wirtz, P., & Chichka, D. (2014). Angular declination and the dynamic perception of egocentric distance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 40, 361-377.

Yamamoto, N. & Philbeck, J. (2013). Intrinsic frames of reference in haptic spatial learning. Cognition, 129, 447-456.

Pyoun, H. K., Sargent, J. Q., Dopkins, S., & Philbeck, J. (2013). Two-category place representations persist over body rotations. Memory & Cognition, 41, 1132-1143.

Sargent, J. Q., Zacks, J. M., Philbeck, J. W., & Flores, S. (2013). Distraction shrinks space. Memory & Cognition, DOI: 10.3758/s13421-013-0303-z.

Woods, A. J., Philbeck, J.W. & Wirtz, P. (2013). Hyper-arousal decreases human visual thresholds. PLoS ONE, 8(4), e61415.

Yamamoto, N. & Philbeck, J. W. (2013). Peripheral vision benefits spatial learning by guiding eye movements. Memory & Cognition, 41, 109-121.

Arthur, J. C., Philbeck, J. W., Kleene, N. J., & Chichka, D. (2012). The role of spatial memory and frames of reference in the precision of angular path integration. Acta Psychologica, 141, 112-121.

Kirmizibayrak, C., Radeva, N., Wakid, M., Philbeck, J., Sibert, J., & Hahn, J. (2012). Evaluation of gesture based interfaces for medical volume visualization tasks. The International Journal of Virtual Reality, 11, 69-74.

Woods, A. J., Philbeck, J. W., Chelette, K., Skinner, R. D., Garcia-Rill, E., & Mennemeier, M.S. (2011). Cold pressor stimulation diminishes P50 amplitude in normal subjects. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 71, 348-358.

Sargent, J., Dopkins, S., & Philbeck, J. (2011). Dynamic category structure in spatial memory. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 18, 1105-1112.

Sargent, J., Dopkins, S., Philbeck, J. & Chichka, D. (2010). Chunking in spatial memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 36(3), 576-589.

Gajewski, D., Philbeck, J. W., Pothier, S., & Chichka, D. (2010). From the most fleeting of glimpses: On the time course for the extraction of distance information. Psychological Science, 21(10),1446-1453.pdf

Philbeck, J. W., Woods, A. J., Kontra, C., & Zdenkova, P. (2010). A comparison of blindpulling and blindwalking as measures of perceived absolute distance. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 148-160.

Arthur, J., Philbeck, J. W., & Chichka, D. (2009). Non-sensory inputs to angular path integration. Journal of Vestibular Research, 19(3-4), 111-125.

Woods, A. J., Philbeck, J. W., & Danoff, J. (2009). The various perceptions of distance: An alternative view of how effort affects distance judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 35(4), 1104-1117.

Pothier, S., Philbeck, J. W., Chichka, D., & Gajewski, D. (2009). Tachistoscopic exposure and masking of real three-dimensional scenes. Behavior Research Methods, 41, 107-112.

Philbeck, J.W. (2009). Spatial layout perception: Neural. In Encyclopedia of Perception. E. B. Goldstein, Ed. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.

Philbeck, J. W. (2009). Navigation through spatial layout. In Encyclopedia of Perception. E. B. Goldstein, Ed. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.

Loomis, J.M., & Philbeck, J. W. (2009). Measuring perception with spatial updating and action. In: Embodiment, Ego-Space, and Action: The 34th Carnegie Symposium on Cognition.R. L. Klatzky, M. Berhmann, B. MacWhinney, Eds.

Philbeck, J. W., Woods, A. J., Arthur, J., & Todd, J. (2008). Progressive locomotor recalibration during blind walking. Perception & Psychophysics, 70(8), 1459-1470.

Sargent, J., Dopkins, S., Philbeck, J. W., & Arthur, J. (2008). Exploring the process of progressive disorientation. Acta Psychologica, 129(2), 234-242.

Arthur, J., Philbeck, J. W., Sargent, J., & Dopkins, S. (2008). Misperception of exocentric directions in auditory space. Acta Psychologica, 129(1), 72-82.

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.

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.

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, 377-391.

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, 510-520.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Philbeck, J. W., & Loomis, J. M. (1997). A 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.

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.

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.
 
 

1b. Unpublished Manuscripts
 
Philbeck, J. W. Processes underlying apparently paradoxical indications of extent. Unpublished doctoral dissertation.



CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
 

Philbeck, J. W., Gajewski, D. A., Wallin, C. P., & Mihelic, S. (2016, May). Field-of-view restriction has response-specific effects on distance Judgments. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL, May 2016.

Gajewski, D. A., Philbeck, J. W. & Mihelic, S. (2015, May). Judgments of distance to elevated targets with and without a visible ground contact. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL, May 2015.

Gajewski, D. A., Mihelic, S., Wallin, C. P., & Philbeck, J. W. (2014, May). Judgments of egocentric distance within indoor and outdoor environments: Context matters with restricted and unrestricted fields of view. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg, FL, May 2014.

Gajewski, D. A., Wallin, C. ., & Philbeck, J. W. (2013, May). The roles for angular declination and gaze direction in the fast extraction of distance. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, May 2013.

Wallin, C. P., Gajewski, D. A., & Philbeck, J. W. (2013, May). The impact of occluded surfaces on absolute distance judgments in room environments. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, May 2013.

Wallin, C. P., Gajewski, D. A., & Philbeck, J. W. (2012, May). Eye movement patterns during judgments of absolute distance in natural environments. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, May 2012.

Kramer, B. Philbeck, J. W., Dopkins, S., & Sargent, J. (2011, November). The effect of disorientation on subjective straight-ahead. Annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Seattle, WA, November 2011.

Cohen, N., Gajewski, D. A., Dameshghi, N., & Philbeck, J. W. (2011, May). On the role for binocular cues in the fast extraction of egocentric distance. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, May 2011.

Gajewski, D. & Philbeck, J. W. (2010, May). Perception of distance in the most fleeting of glimpses. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, May, 2010.

Woods, A. J. & Philbeck, J. W. (2010, May). When does cortical arousal influence performance on visual perception tasks? Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, May, 2010.

Woods, A. J. & Philbeck, J. W. (2009, May). Cortical arousal influences early but not late visual perception. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, May 11, 2009.

Yamamoto, N., Philbeck, J. W., (2009, May). When imagined walking is inaccurate, what is misperceived? Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, May 11, 2009.

Yamamoto, N., Philbeck, J. W., Fedio, P., Potolicchio, S. J., Caputy, A. J., de Leonni Stanonik, M., & Kontra, C. E. (2009, March). Navigating across the lifespan: Path integration deficits in patients with mild cognitive impairment. Poster presented at the 16th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Gajewski, D. A., & Philbeck, J. W. (November 2008). Fast extraction of absolute distance information facilitated by previous views of real-world environment. Poster presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

Yamamoto, N., & Philbeck, J. W. (2008, November). Egocentric and intrinsic frames of reference in haptic spatial learning. Poster presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

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.