Publications: Book Chapters

Cutting, J.E. & Proffitt, D.R. (1981). Gait perception as an example of how we may perceive events. In R. Walk and H. Pick (Eds.), Intersensory perception and sensory integration. Vol. II, New York: Plenum.

Proffitt, D.R. & Halwes, T. (1982). Categorical perception: A contractual approach. In W.B. Weimer and D.S. Palermo (Eds.), Cognition and the symbolic processes. Vol. II. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Proffitt, D.R. & Bertenthal, B.I. (1984). Converging approaches to extracting structure from motion: Psychophysical and computational investigations of recovering connectivity from moving point‑light displays. Proceedings of the First Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications. Silver Spring, MD: IEEE Computer Society.

Proffitt, D.R. & Bertenthal, B.I. (1988). Recovering connectivity from moving point‑light displays. In W.N. Martin & J.K. Aggarwal (Eds.), Motion understanding: Robot and human vision, Hingham MA: Kluwer.

Kaiser, M.K. & Proffitt, D. P. (1989). Human motion perception: Higher order organization. In A.B. Watson & J.B. Mulligan (Eds.), Vision Science and Technology at NASA: Results of a Workshop. NASA Technical Memorandum, No. 102214.

Proffitt, D.R. & Kaiser, M.K. (1989). Perceiving environmental properties from motion information: Minimal conditions. In S.R. Ellis, M.K. Kaiser, A. Grunwald (Eds.), Spatial displays and spatial instruments, Moffett Field, CA: NASA Ames Publications.

Proffitt, D.R. & Kaiser, M.K. (1991). Perceiving environmental properties from motion information: Minimal conditions. In S.R. Ellis (Ed.) Pictorial communications in virtual and real environments, London: Taylor and Francis.

Proffitt, D.R. (1993). A hierarchical approach to perception. In S.C. Masin (Ed.), Foundations of perceptual theory, Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Proffitt, D.R. & Kaiser, M.K. (1995). Perceiving events. In W. Epstein & S.J. Rogers (Eds.), Perception of space and motion: Handbook of perception and cognition, 2nd edition:, San Diego: Academic Press.

Proffitt, D.R., & Kaiser, M.K. (1998). The internalization of perceptual processing constraints. In J. Hochberg (Ed.), Perception and cognition at century’s end: Handbook of perception and cognition, 2nd edition: San Diego: Academic Press.

Creem, S.H., & Proffitt, D.R. (1999). Separate memories for visual guidance and explicit awareness: The roles of time and place. In B.H. Challis & B.M. Velichkovsky (Eds.), Stratification of consciousness and cognition, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

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

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

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.), Beyond dissociation: Interaction between dissociated implicit and explicit processing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Proffitt, D.R. & Caudek, C. (2002). Depth perception and perception of events. In A. F. Healy & R. W. Proctor (Eds.), Experimental Psychology. Volume 4 in I. B. Weiner (Editor-in-Chief) Handbook of psychology. (pp. 213-236), New York: Wiley.

Proffitt, D.R. & Kaiser, M.K. (2003). Intuitive physics. In L. Nadel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of cognitive science. (pp. 632-637), London: Macmillan.

Nishimura, E. M., Darling, B. A., Rapoport, E. D., Zadra, J. R., Proffitt, D., Downs, T. H., & Downs III, J. H. (2006). Functional near-infrared sensing for brain-computer interface control by a locked-in individual. In D. D. Schmorrow & K. M. Stanney & L. M. Reeves (Eds.), Augmented cognition: past, present & future (2 ed., pp. 111-116). Arlington: Strategic Analysis, Inc.

Rapoport, E. D., Nishimura, E. M., Darling, B. A., Zadra, J. R., Proffitt, D., Downs, T. H., & Downs III, J. H. (2006). Brain-computer interface for communications using functional near-infrared imaging (fNIR). In D. D. Schmorrow & K. M. Stanney & L. M. Reeves (Eds.), Augmented cognition: past, present & future (2 ed., pp. 169-173). Arlington: Strategic Analysis, Inc.

Nishimura, E. M., Rapoport, E. D., Darling, B. A., Cervenka, J. P., Stefanucci, J. K., Proffitt, D. R., Downs, T. H., & Downs, J. H. (2007). Functional brain imaging for analysis of reading effort for computer-generated text. In D. D. Schmorrow & L. M. Reeves (Eds.) Foundations of Augmented Cognition, New York: Springer.

Nishimura, E. M., Rapoport, E. D., Darling, B. A., Proffitt, D. R., Downs, T. H., & Downs, J. H. (2007). Physiologic system interfaces using fNIR with tactile feedback for improving operator effectiveness. In D. D. Schmorrow & L. M. Reeves (Eds.) Foundations of Augmented Cognition, New York: Springer.

Wubbels, P. Nishimura, E., Rapoport, E., Darling, B., Proffitt, D., Downs, T., & Downs, J. (2007). Exploring calibration techniques for functional brain imaging (fNIR) controlled brain-computer interfaces. In D. D. Schmorrow & L. M. Reeves (Eds.) Foundations of Augmented Cognition, New York: Springer.

Proffitt, D.R. (2008). An Action-specific Approach to Spatial Perception. In R.L. Klatzky, M. Behrmann, & B. MacWhinney, B. (Eds.), Embodiment, Ego-space, and Action. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Proffitt, D.R., (2008). Light and life: The evolution of visual perception. In J. Feldman & R. Stilling (Eds.), What Should I Read Next” 70 University of Virginia Professors Recommend Readings in History, Politics, Literature, Math, Science, Technology, the Arts, and More. University of Virginia Press. (pp. 85-89).

Proffitt, D.R. & Caudek, C. (2013). Depth perception and perception of events. In A. F. Healy & R. W. Proctor (Eds.), Experimental Psychology. Volume 4 in I. B. Weiner (Editor-in-Chief) Handbook of psychology 2nd Edition. (pp. 212-235)

Proffitt, D.R. & Linkenauger, S. A. (2013). Perception viewed as a phenotypic expression. In W. Prinz, M. Beisert, & A. Herwig (Eds.), Action Science: Foundations of an Emerging Discipline, MIT Press. (pp. 171-197).

Twedt, E. & Proffitt, D. R. (2013). Perception. In D. S. Dunn (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Clore, G.L., Proffitt, D.R., & Zadra, J.R. (in press). Feeling, seeing, and liking: How bodily resources inform perception and emotion.  In M.D. Robinson & L.E. Thomas (Eds.) Embodied Psychology: Thinking, Feeling, and Acting. New York, NY: Springer.