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  • Witt, J.K., & Proffitt, D.R. (in press). Perceived slant: A dissociation between perception and action. Perception.
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  • Proffitt, D.R. (2006). Embodied perception and the economy of action. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1(2), 110-122.
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  • Proffitt, D.R. (2006). Distance perception. Current Directions in Psychological Research, 15, 131-135.
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  • Bakdash, J. Z., Augustyn, J. S., and Proffitt, D. R. (2006). Large displays enhance spatial knowledge of a virtual environment. In ACM Siggraph Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, 59-62.
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  • Witt, J.K., Proffitt, D.R., & Epstein, W. (2005). Tool use affects perceived distance but only when you intend to use it. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 880-888.
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  • Witt, J.K., & Proffitt, D.R. (2005). See the ball, hit the ball: Apparent ball size is correlated with batting average. Psychological Science, 16(12), 937-938.
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  • Stefanucci, J., Proffitt, D., Banton, T., & Epstein, W. (2005). Distances appear different on hills. Perception & Psychophysics, 67(6), 1052-1060.
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  • Riener, C. R., Proffitt, D., & Salthouse, T. (2005). A psychometric approach to intuitive physics. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 12(4), 740-746.
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  • Banton, T., Stefanucci, J., Durgin, J., Fass, A., & Proffitt, D. (2005). The Perception of Walking Speed in a Virtual Environment. Presence, 14(4), 394-406.
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  • Witt, J.K., Proffitt, D.R., & Epstein, W. (2004). Perceiving distance: A role of effort and intent. Perception, 33, 570-590.
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  • Proffitt, D.R., Stefanucci, J., Banton, T., & Epstein, W. (2003). The role of effort in perceiving distance. Psychological Science.
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  • Tan, D.S., Stefanucci, J.K., Proffitt, D.R., Pausch, R. (2002). Kinesthesis Aids Human Memory. Short paper at CHI 2002 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Minneapolis, MN.
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  • Stefanucci, J. K., Downs, T. H., Snyder, A. P., Downs, J. H., Proffitt, D.R. (2002). Context-dependent memory engages a frontal-parietal-occipital network. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
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  • Stefanucci, J. K., & Proffitt, D. R. (2002). Providing distinctive cues to augment human memory. Poster presented at the 24th Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Fairfax, VA.

  • Riener, C., Proffitt, D., & Salthouse, T. (2002, March) Intuitive Physics: Across Tasks and Age. Poster session presented at the annual University of Virginia Graduate Research Fair, Charlottesville, Virginia.

  • Riener, C., Proffitt, D ., & Salthouse, T. (2002, April) Intuitive physics: Across tasks and age. Poster presented at the bi-annual meeting of the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

  • Riener, C. & Proffitt, D. (2002). Quantifying spatial presence. Fifth Annual International Workshop on Presence (pp. 345-352).

  • Proffitt, D. R. & Caudek, C. (2002). Depth perception and perception of events. In A. F. Healy and R. W. Proctor (Eds.). Comprehensive handbook of psychology, volume 4: Experimental psychology. NY: Wiley.
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  • Dixon, M. W. & Proffitt, D. R. (2002). Overestimation of heights in virtual reality is influenced more by perceived distal size than by the 2-D versus 3-D dimensionality of the display. Perception, 31, 103-112.
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  • Tan, D.S., Stefanucci, J.K., Proffitt, D.R., Pausch, R. (2001) The Infocockpit: Providing Location and Place to Aid Human Memory. Workshop on Perceptive User Interfaces 2001, Orlando, Florida.

  • Riener, C. R., Willingham D.B. (2001) Object identity and beliefs about object properties, Current Psychology of Cognition. 20(3-4), 255-260.
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  • Proffitt, D. R., Creem, S. H. & Zosh, W. (2001). Seeing mountains in mole hills: Geographical slant perception. Psychological Science, 12, 418-423.
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  • Creem,S. H., Wraga, M., & Proffitt, D.R. (2001). Imagining physically impossible self-rotations: Geometry is more important than gravity. Cognition, 81,41-64.
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  • Creem, S. H., & Proffitt, D. R. (2001). Grasping objects by their handles: A necessary interaction between cognition and action. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 218-228.
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  • Creem, S. H., Downs, T. H., Wraga, M., Harrington, G. S., Proffitt, D. R. & Downs, III, J. H. ( 2001). An fMRI study of imagined self-rotation. Journal of Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1, 239-249.
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  • Creem, S. H. & Proffitt, D. R. (2001). Defining the cortical visual systems: "What", "where", and "how". Acta Psychologica, 107, 43-68.
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  • Carpenter, M. & Proffitt, D. R. (2001). Comparing viewer and array mental rotations in different planes. Memory & Cognition, 29, 441-448.
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  • Wraga, M., Creem, S. H., & Proffitt, D. R. (2000). Perception-action dissociations of a walkable Muller-Lyer configuration. Psychological Science, 11, 239-243.
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  • Wraga, M., Creem, S. H., & Proffitt, D. R. (2000). Updating displays after imagined object- and viewer rotations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 26(1), 151-168.
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  • Wraga, M. & Proffitt, D.R. (2000). Mapping the zone of eye height utility for seated and standing observers. Perception, 29, 1361-1383.
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  • Dixon, M. W, Wraga, M, Proffitt, D. R., Williams, G. C. (2000). Eye height scaling of absolute size in immersive and nonimmersive displays. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance. 26(2), 582-593.
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  • Bhalla, M., & Proffitt, D.R. (2000). Geographical slant perception: Dissociation and coordination between explicit awareness and visually guided actions. In Y. Rossetti and A. Revonsuo (Eds.), Dissociation but Interaction between Nonconscious and Conscious Processing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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  • Bertamini, M, & Proffitt, D R. (2000). Hierarchical motion organization in random dot configurations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance. 26(4), 1371-1386.
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  • Yang, T. L., Dixon, M. W., & Proffitt, D. R. (1999). Seeing big things: Overestimation of heights is greater for real objects than for objects in pictures. Perception. 28, 445-467.
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  • Wraga, M., Creem, S. H., & Proffitt, D. R. (1999). The influence of spatial reference frames on imagined object- and viewer rotations. Acta Psychologica, 102, 247-264.
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  • Proffitt, D., & Banton, T. (1999). Perceived depth is enhanced with parallax scanning.: Technical report for Vision III Imaging.

  • Proffitt, D. R. (1999). Naive physics. In R. Wilson & F. Keil (Eds.), The MIT encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

  • Proffitt, D. R. (1999). Perception: Ecological versus Inferential Approaches. In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.). The concept of cognition. Cambridge: MIT Press.

  • Kaiser, M. K., Proffitt, D. R., Banton, T., & Steve, J. (1999). Learning to walk on other worlds: Simulation of alternative gravitational / inertial environments.

  • Creem, S. H., & Proffitt, D. R. (1999). Separate memories for visual guidance and explicit awareness: The roles of time and place. Challis, Bradford H. (Ed), Velichkovsky, Boris M. (Ed), et al. (1999). Stratification in cognition and consciousness. Advances in consciousness research. (pp. 73-104). Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. viii, 293 pp.
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  • Bhalla, M., & Proffitt, D. R. (1999). Visual-Motor recalibration in geographical slant perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance. 25(4), 1076-1096.
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  • Creem, S.H., & Proffitt, D.R. (1998). Two memories for geographical slant: Separation and interdependence of action and awareness. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 5, 22-36.
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