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Ph.D., Yale University, June 1973 (Psychology)BA, with Honors, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, June 1969 (Psychology)
research interests
Art and perception. Perception of cinema. Perception of layout and depth. Wayfinding. Visual perception of motion. Information and information use in perception. Optics and projections. Event perception. History and philosophy of vision and perception.
professional organizations
Psychonomic Society, member, 1976-present
American Psychological Association, member, 1982-1988, fellow, 1989-present
International Society for Ecological Psychology, 1983-2008
American Psychological Society, charter fellow, 1988-present
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 1994-99
College Art Association, 2002-present
honors
Society of Experimental Psychologists, fellow, 1995-present; chair, 2003-2004
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow, 1993-94
John Motley Morehead Scholarship, University of North Carolina, 1965-69
Phi Beta Kappa, 1968
professional experience
Professor, Department of Psychology, Cornell University, 1986-present
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Cornell University, 1980-86
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Wesleyan University, 1979-80
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Wesleyan University, 1974-79
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Yale University, 1973-74
Also:
Visiting Professor, Università degli studi di Trieste, May, 1993
Visiting Scientist, Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale (CNRS), Paris,
1993
Visiting Professor, Universities of Padova, Roma, and Verona, 1990
Visiting Professor, University of Arizona, 1986
Research Scientist, Atari Sunnyvale Research Laboratory, Sunnyvale, CA,
1983-84
Consultant, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, 1979
Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, 1977-78
Research Assistant and Associate, Haskins Laboratories, 1970-77
journal duties
Editor: Psychogical Science, 2003-07;
Editor: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (JEP:HPP),1987-93
Associate Editor: JEP:HPP,1981-82; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1994-98
Editorial Boards: JEP:HPP, 1979-81, 82-87, 95-99; Cognition,
1979-88; Cognitive Psychology, 1983-87; Psychological Science,
2007-present.
publications.
in press
112. Cutting, J.E. (in press). The end of art? Empirical
Studies in the Arts, in press
111. Cutting, J.E. (in press). Asynchronous neural integration:
Compensation or computational tolerance and skill acquisition. Behavioral
and Brain Sciences,. 31, p. 000. [A comment on a target article by
Nijhawan]
110. Cutting, J.E. (in press). Criteria for basic tastes
and other sensory primaries. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31,
p. 000. [A comment on a target article by Erickson]
2007
109. Cutting, J.E. (2007). Mere exposure, reproduction,
and the Impressionist canon. In A. Brzyski (Ed). Partisan Canons.
(pp. 79-93). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
108. Cutting, J.E. (2007). Framing the rules of perception:
Hochberg vs. Galileo, Gestalts, Garner, and Gibson. In M. A. Peterson, B.
Gillam, & H. Sedgwick (Eds.), In the mind’s eye: Julian Hochberg on
the perception of pictures, film, and the world. (pp. 495-503). New
York: Oxford University Press.
107. Cutting, J.E. (2007). On the growth of Psychological
Science. APS Observer, 20(8), 17-19.
106. Cutting, J.E. (2007). Rhythms of research. Psychological
Science, 18, 1023-1026. Reprinted in the APS Observer, 2007,
20(11), 11-14.
105. Gonzalez-Marquez, M., Becker, R. B., & Cutting, J.E.
(2007). An introduction to experimental methods for language researchers.
In M. Gonzalez-Marquez, I. Mittelberg, S. Coulson, & M. Spivey (Eds.) Methods
in cognitive linguistics: Ithaca (pp. 53-86). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2006
104. Cutting, J.E. (2006). Impressionism and its canon.
Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
103. Cutting, J.E. (2006). The mere exposure effect and
aesthetic preference. In P. Locher, C. Martindale, & L. Dorfman (Eds.) New
directions in aesthetics, creativity, and the psychology of art. (pp.
33-46). Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing.
2005
102. Cutting, J.E. (2005). Perceiving scenes in film and
in the world. In J.D. Anderson & B.F. Anderson (Eds.) Moving image theory:
Ecological considerations (pp.9-27). Carbondale, IL: University of
Southern Illinois Press.
2004
101. Wang, R.F. & Cutting, J.E. (2004). Eye movements and
an object-based model of heading perception. In L. Vaina, S. Beardsley,
& S. Rushton (eds.) Optical flow and beyond (pp. 61-78). Dordrecht,
NE: Kluwer Academic Press.
2003
100. Cutting, J.E. (2003). Gustave Caillebotte, French
Impressionism, and mere exposure. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review,
10, 319-343.
99. Cutting, J.E. (2003). Reconceiving perceptual space.
H. Hecht, R. Schwartz, & M. Atherton (Eds.) Perceiving pictures:
An interdisciplinary approach to pictorial space. Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, pp. 215-238.
2002
98. Cutting, J.E. (2002). Representing motion in a static
image: Constraints and parallels in art, science, and popular culture. Perception,
31,1165-1194.
97. Readinger, W.O., Chatziastros, A., Cunningham, D.W., Bülthoff, H.H.,
& Cutting, J.E. (2002). Systematic effects of gaze-eccentricity
on steering. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 8, 247-258.
96. Cutting, J.E., Readinger, W.O., & Wang, R.F. (2002).
Walking, looking to the side, and taking curved paths. Perception &
Psychophysics, 64, 415-425.
95. Cutting, J.E. & Readinger, W.O. (2002). Perceiving
motion while moving, or how pairwise invariants make optical flow cohere.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance,
28,731-747.
94. Cutting, J.E. (2002). Invariants and cues. Behavioral
and Brain Sciences, 25,102-103. [A comment on a target article by Joel
Norman.]
2000
93. Cutting, J.E. (2000). Accuracy, scope, and flexibility of models. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 44,3-19.
92. Cutting, J.E. (2000). Images, imagination, and movement: Pictorial representations and their development in the work of James Gibson. Perception, 29,635-648.
91. Cutting, J.E. (2000). Palmer’s vision. American Journal of Psychology. 113,458-460.
90. Cutting, J.E. (1999/2000). Review of Joseph Anderson's
The reality of illusion: An ecological approach to cognitive film theory.
Journal of Film and Video. 51,97-99.
89. Cutting, J.E., Alliprandini, P.M.Z., & Wang, R.F. (2000). Seeking one's heading through eye movements. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 7, 490-498.
88. Cutting, J.E., & Wang, R.F. (2000). Heading judgments in minimal environments: The value of a heuristic when invariants are rare. Perception & Psychophysics, 62,1146-1159.
1999
87. Cutting, J.E., Wang, R.F., Flückiger, M., Baumberger, B. (1999). Human heading judgments and object-based motion information. Vision Research, 39,1079-1105.
86. Vishton, P.M., Rea, J.G., Cutting, J.E, & Nuñez, L.N. (1999). Comparing effects of the horizontal-vertical illusion on grip scaling and judgment: Relative vs. absolute, not perception vs. action. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25,1659-1672.
85. Wang, R.F. & Cutting, J.E. (1999). Where we go with a little good information. Psychological Science, 10,72-76.
84. Wang, R.F. & Cutting, J.E. (1999). A probabilistic model for heading judgments from converging elements. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 76, 205-212.
1998
83. Cutting, J.E. (1998). Information
from the world around us. In J. Hochberg (Ed.) Perception and cognition at the end of the century (pp. 69-93) San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
82. Cutting, J.E. & Massironi, M. (1998). Pictures and their special status in cognitive inquiry. In J. Hochberg (ed.) Perception and cognition at the end of the century (pp. 137-168) San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
1997
81. Cutting, J.E. (1997). How the eye measures reality
and virtual reality. Behavior Research Methods, Instrumentation, &
Computers, 29, 29-36.
80. Cutting, J.E., Vishton, P.M., Flückiger, M., Baumberger, B., & Gerndt, J.D. (1997). Heading and path information from retinal flow in naturalistic environments. Perception & Psychophysics, 60,426-441.
1996
79. Cutting, J.E. (1996). Wayfinding from multiple sources of local information in retinal flow. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 22,1299-1313.
1995
78. Cutting, J.E. & Vishton, P.M. (1995). Perceiving layout and knowing
distances: The interaction, relative potency, and contextual use of different
information about depth. In W. Epstein & S. Rogers (Eds.) Perception
of space and motion. (pp. 69-117). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
77. Cutting, J.E., Vishton, P.M., & Braren, P.A. (1995). How we avoid
collisions with stationary and with moving obstacles. Psychological
Review, 102, 627-651.
76. Vishton, P.M. & Cutting, J.E. (1995). Wayfinding, displacements,
and mental maps: Velocity fields are not typically used to determine one's
aimpoint. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance,
21, 978-995.
1993
75. Cutting, J.E. (1993). Perceptual artifacts and phenomena:
Gibson's role in the 20th century. S. Masin (Ed.) Foundations of perceptual
theory (pp. 231-260) Amsterdam: North-Holland.
1992
74. Cutting, J.E., Bruno, N., Brady, N., & Moore, C. (1992).
Selectivity, scope, and simplicity of models: A lesson from fitting judgments
of perceived depth. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General,
121,364-381.
73. Cutting J.E., Springer, K., Braren, P. & Johnson, S.
(1992). Wayfinding on foot from information in retinal, not optical, flow.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 121,41-72, & p. 129.
1991
72. Cutting, J.E. (1991). Four ways to reject directed perception. Ecological Psychology, 3,25-34.
71. Cutting, J.E. (1991). On the efficacy of cinema, or what the visual system did not evolve to do. In S. Ellis, M. Kaiser, & A. Grunwald (Eds.) Pictorial communication in virtual and real environments
(pp. 486-495). London: Taylor & Francis.
70. Cutting, J.E. (1991). Optical flow versus retinal flow
as sources of information for flight guidance. In W.W. Johnson & M.K. Kaiser
(Eds.) Visually guided control of movement (pp. 74-86.) NASA Conference
Publication 3118.
69. Cutting, J.E. (1991). Why our stimuli look as they
do. In G. Lockhead & J.R. Pomerantz (Eds.)
1990
68. Busey, T.A., Brady, N.P., Cutting, J.E. (1990). Compensation
is unnecessary for the perception of faces in slanted pictures. Perception and Psychophysics, 48, 1-11.
1988
67. Bruno, N. & Cutting, J.E. (1988). Minimodularity and
the perception of layout. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General,
117,161-170.
66. Cutting, J.E. (1988). Affine distortions of pictorial
space: Some predictions for Goldstein (1987) that La Gournerie (1859) might
have made. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
, 14,305-311.
65. Cutting, J.E. (1988). Review of Odd perceptions
by Richard L. Gregory. American Scientist, 76, p. 408.
64. Cutting, J.E. & Bruno, N. (1988). Additivity, subadditivity,
and the use of perceptual information: A reply to Massaro. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: General, 117, 422-424.
63. Cutting, J.E., Moore, C. & Morrison, R. (1988). Masking
the motions of human gait. Perception & Psychophysics, 44, 339-347.
1987
62. Cutting, J.E. (1987). On cross ratios and motion perception: A reply to Niall. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 31, 439-440.
61. Cutting, J.E. (1987). Perception and information. Annual Review of Psychology, 38, 61-90.
60. Cutting, J.E. (1987). Rigidity in cinema seen from the front row, side aisle. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 13,323-334.
59. Cutting, J.E. & Garvin, J.J. (1987). Fractal curves and complexity. Perception & Psychophysics, 42, 365-370.
1986
58. Cutting, J.E. (1986). Comments on generating caricatures. Leonardo, 18, p. 92.
57. Cutting, J.E. (1986). Perceiving and recovering structure
from events. In N.I. Badler & J.K. Tsotsos (Eds.), Motion: Representation
and perception (pp. 141-147). New York: North-Holland.
56. Cutting, J.E. (1986). Perception with an eye for
motion. Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books/MIT Press, 321 pp.
55. Cutting, J.E. (1986). Review of Perception by
I. Rock. Quarterly Review of Biology, 61, 140-141.
54. Cutting, J.E. (1986). The shape and psychophysics of cinematic space. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 18, 551-558.
1985
53. Cutting, J.E. (1985). Gibson, representation, and belief. Contemporary Psychology, 30,186-188.
52. Priest, H., & Cutting, J.E. (1985). Visual flow and direction of locomotion. Science, 227,1063-1064.
1984
51. Bertenthal, B.I., Proffitt, D.R., & Cutting, J.E. (1984). Infant sensitivity to invariant structure revealed through motion. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 37, 213-230.
50. Cutting, J.E. (1984). Perception. Yearbook of Science
and Technology, 1985,324-326. New York: McGraw Hill.
49. Cutting, J.E. (1984). Reflections on surfaces: A cross-disciplinary
reply to Stevens. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General,
113,221-224.
48. Cutting, J.E. & Millard, R.T. (1984). Three gradients
and the perception of flat and curved surfaces. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: General, 113, 198-216
1983
47. Cutting, J.E. (1983). Four assumptions about invariance in perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 9, 310-317.
1982
46. Cutting, J.E. (1982). Blowing in the wind: Perceiving structure in trees and bushes. Cognition, 12, 25-44.
45. Cutting, J.E. (1982). Plucks and bows are categorically perceived, sometimes. Perception & Psychophysics, 31, 462-478.
44. Cutting, J.E. (1982). Two ecological perspectives: Gibson vs. Shaw and Turvey. American Journal of Psychology, 95, 199-222.
43. Cutting, J.E. & Proffitt, D.R. (1982). The minimum principle and the perception of absolute, common, and relative motions. Cognitive Psychology, 14, 211-246.
1981
42. Cutting, J.E. (1981). Bars and stripes forever: Fourier analysis and vision. Contemporary Psychology, 26,742-744.
41. Cutting, J.E. (1981). Coding theory adapted to gait perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 7, 71-87.
40. Cutting, J.E. (1981). Six tenets for event perception. Cognition, 10, 71-78.
39. Cutting, J.E. & Proffitt, D.R. (1981). Gait perception as an example of how we may perceive events. In R. Walk & H.L. Pick (Eds.), Intersensory perception and sensory integration (pp. 249-273). New York: Plenum.
1980
38. Cutting, J.E. (1980). Sign language and spoken language. Nature, 284, 661-662.
37. Proffitt, D.R., & Cutting, J.E. (1980). An invariant for wheel-generated motions and the logic of its determination. Perception, 9, 435-449.
36. Proffitt, D.R., & Cutting, J.E. (1980). Perceiving the centroid of curvilinearly bounded rolling shapes. Perception & Psychophysics, 28,484-487.
35. Remez, R.E., Cutting, J.E., & Studdert-Kennedy, M. (1980). Cross-series adaptation using song and string. Perception & Psychophysics, 27, 524-530.
34. Shaw, R.E. & Cutting, J.E. (1980). Clues from an ecological
theory of event perception. In U. Bellugi & M. Studdert-Kennedy (Eds.) Sign
language and spoken language: Biological constraints on linguistic form
(pp. 57-84). Weinheim, Germany: Verlag Chemie.
1979
33. Proffitt, D.R. & Cutting, J.E. (1979). Perceiving the centroid of configurations on a rolling wheel. Perception & Psychophysics, 25,389-398.
32. Proffitt, D.R. & Cutting, J.E. & Stier, D.M. (1979). Perception of wheel-generated motions. Journal
of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 5,289-302.
31. Virostek, S.E. & Cutting, J.E. (1979). Asymmetries for Ameslan handshapes and other forms in signer and nonsigners. Perception & Psychophysics, 26,505-508.
1978
30. Barclay, C.D., Cutting, J.E., & Kozlowski, L.T. (1978). Temporal and spatial factors in gait perception that influence gender recognition. Perception & Psychophysics, 23,145-152.
29. Cutting, J.E. (1978). Generation of synthetic male and female walkers through manipulation of a biomechanical invariant. Perception, 7,393-405.
28. Cutting, J.E. (1978). Perceiving the geometry of age in a human face. Perception & Psychophysics, 24,566-568.
27. Cutting, J.E. (1978). A program to generate synthetic walkers as dynamic point-light displays. Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation, 10,91-94.
26. Cutting, J.E. (1978). There may be nothing peculiar
to perceiving in a speech mode. In J. Requin (Ed.), Attention and Performance
VII (pp. 229-243). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.
25. Cutting, J.E. & Pisoni, D.B. (1978). An information-processing
approach to speech perception. In J.F. Kavanagh & W. Strange (Eds.), Speech
and language in the laboratory, school, and clinic (pp. 38-72). Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press.
24. Cutting, J.E., Proffitt, D.R., & Kozlowski, L.T. (1978). A biomechanical invariant for gait perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 4,357-372.
23. Kozlowski, L.T. & Cutting, J.E. (1978). Recognizing
the gender of walkers from point-lights mounted on ankles: some second thoughts.
Perception & Psychophysics, 23, p. 459.
1977
22. Cutting, J.E. (1977). The magical number two and the natural categories of speech and music. In N.S. Sutherland (Ed.) Tutorial essays in psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 1-22), Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.
21. Cutting, J.E. & Kozlowski, L.T. (1977). Recognizing friends by their walk: Gait perception without familiarity cues. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 9,353-356.
20. Jusczyk, P.W., Rosner, B.S., Cutting, J.E., Foard, C.F. & Smith, L.B. (1977). Categorical perception of nonspeech sounds by 2-month-old infants. Perception & Psychophysics, 21,50-54.
19. Kozlowski, L.T. & Cutting, J.E. (1977). Recognizing the sex of a walker from a dynamic point-light display. Perception & Psychophysics, 21,575-580.
1976
18. Blechner, M.J., Day, R.S., & Cutting, J.E. (1976).Processing two dimensions of nonspeech stimuli: The auditory-phonetic distinction reconsidered. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2,257-266.
17. Cutting, J.E. (1976). Auditory and linguistic processes in speech perception: Inferences from six fusions in dichotic listening, Psychological Review, 83,114-140.
16. Cutting, J.E. & Dorman, M.F. (1976). Discrimination of intensity differences carried on formant transitions varying in extent and duration. Perception & Psychophysics, 20,101-107.
15. Cutting, J.E., Rosner, B.S. (1976). Discrimination functions predicted from categories in speech and music. Perception & Psychophysics, 20,87-88.
14. Cutting, J.E., Rosner, B.S. & Foard, C.F. (1976). Perceptual categories for music-like sounds: Implications for theories of speech perception. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 28,361-378.
13. Cutting, J.E. & Schatz, N.J. (1976). On the relationship between intercategory and intracategory semantic structure. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 8,406-408.
12. Healy, A.F., & Cutting, J.E. (1976). Units of speech perception: Phoneme and syllable. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 15,73-84.
1975
11. Cutting, J.E. (1975). Aspects of phonological fusion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1,105-120.
10. Cutting, J.E. (1975). Orienting tasks affect recall performance more then subjective impressions of ability to recall. Psychological Reports, 36,155-158.
9. Cutting, J.E. & Day, R.S. (1975). The perception of stop-liquid clusters in phonological fusion. Journal of Phonetics, 3,99-113.
8. Cutting, J.E. & Eimas, P.D. (1975). Phonetic feature analyzers and the processing of speech in infants. In J.F. Kavanagh & J.E. Cutting (Eds.), The role of speech in language.(pp. 127-148). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
7. Cutting, J.E. & Kavanagh, J.F. (1975). On the relationship of speech to language. American Speech and Hearing Association, 17,500-506.
6. Dorman, M.F., Cutting, J.E., Raphael, L.J. (1975). Perception of temporal order in vowel sequences with and without formant transitions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1,121-129.
5. Kavanagh, J.F. & Cutting, J.E., Eds. (1975). The role of speech in language. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
1974
4. Cutting, J.E. (1974). Different speech-processing mechanisms can be reflected in the results of discrimination and dichotic listening tasks. Brain and Language, 1,363-373.
3. Cutting, J.E. (1974). Two left-hemisphere mechanisms in speech perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 16,601-612.
2. Cutting, J.E. & Rosner, B.S. (1974). Categories and boundaries in speech and music. Perception & Psychophysics, 16,564-570.
1. Kubovy, M., Cutting, J.E. & McGuire, R.M. (1974). Hearing with the third ear: Dichotic perception of a melody without monaural familiarity cues. Science, 186,272-276.
convention presentations, invited addresses, exhibits & newsletter contributions
2000-Present
Cutting, J.E., Graham, D.J., & Field, D.J. (Feb, 2008). From a neuroesthetics
to a neuroarthistory. 96th Annual Meeting of the College Art Association,
Dallas, TX.
Cutting, J.E. (May, 2007). Rhythms of research in Psychological Science.
Invited Address for the 19th Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological
Science. Washington, DC.
Cutting, J.E. (Nov, 2006). Representing motion in a static image.
Invited address, 70th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychological Association,
Fukuoka, Kyushu.
Cutting, J.E. (Nov, 2006). Comments on kansei and perception. Invited
response, 70th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychological Association,
Fukuoka, Kyushu.
Cutting, J.E. (Aug, 2005). Canon, category, and culture: An empirical
historiography of French Impressionism. Invited address, Division 3,
APA, Washington, DC.
Cutting, J.E. (Feb, 2004). Caillebotte, Durand-Ruel, Rewald, an the
Impressionist Canon. 92nd Annual Meeting of the College Art Association,
Seattle, WA.
Brewer, M, Cutting, J.E., Lilienfeld, S. (May, 2003). APSSC Workshop: How
to get published: Guidance from journal editors. 15th Annual meeting
of the American Psychological Society, Atlanta, GA.
Cutting, J.E. (Mar, 2003). Gustave Caillebotte and the development of
the French Impressionist canon. 100th meeting of the Society of Experimental
Psychologists. St Louis, MO.
Cutting, J.E. (Nov, 2001). Gustave Caillebotte, the Impressionist canon,
and mere exposure. 41st Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando,
FL.
Readinger, W.O., Chatziastros, A., Cunningham, D.W., Cutting, J.E., & Bülthoff,
H.H. (Aug, 2001). Drivers steer in their direction of gaze. Vision
in Vehicles conference, Australia.
Flückiger, M., Baumberger, B., & Cutting, J. (May, 2001). Virtual driving
performances from different eye-height. Visual Sciences Society. Sarasota,
FL.
Readinger, W., Chatziastros, A, Cunningham, D., Cutting, J., & Bülthoff,
H. (May, 2001). Gaze-eccentricity effects on automobile driving performance
— or — going where you look. Visual Sciences Society.
Cutting, J.E., Readinger, W., & Wang, R.F. (Nov, 2000). Walking, looking
to the side, and taking curved paths. 40th Meeting of the Psychonomic
Society. New Orleans.
Gaffié, J., Flückiger, M., Baumberger, B. & Cutting, J.E. (Aug, 2000).
How children drive and map in computer simulated environments.
22st European Conference in Visual Perception. Perception, 26 (Supplement),
p. 89.
Cutting, J.E. (June, 2000). Reconceiving perceptual space. ZiF
conference, Bielefeld, Germany. M. Atherton, H. Hecht, & R. Schwartz, organizers.
Flückiger, M., Baumberger, B., & Cutting, (May, 2000). Perspective versus
map responses in layout perception. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual
Science, 41, p. S50.
Readinger, W.O. & Cutting, J.E. (May, 2000). Recognizing motion while moving:
Heading invariants as indicators of nonrigid elements. Investigative
Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 41, p. S169.
Wang, R.F., & Cutting, J.E. (May, 2000). A probabistic model for heading
judgments from converging elements. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual
Science, 41, p. S169.
1990-1999
Gaffié, J., Flückiger, M., Baumberger, B. & Cutting, J.E. (Aug, 1999).
Perception of simulated trajectories by drivers and passengers.
21st European Conference in Visual Perception. Perception, 25 (Supplement),
p. 89.
Cutting, J.E., Alliprandini, P.M.Z., Creutz, E.A., & Wang, R.F. (May, 1998).
Heading judgments and information seeking: The purposive behavior of eye
movements. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 39, p.
S000.
Vishton, P.M., Cutting, J.E., Rea, J.G. (May, 1997). Titchener circles &
horizontal-vertical illusions do not affect manual prehension or judgments
of absolute size; Müller-Lyer affects both. Investigative Ophthalmology
& Visual Science, 38, p. S643.
Flückiger, M., Cutting, J.E., & Baumberger, B. (May, 1997). Visual flow
patterns of simulated locomotion and viewers' reproduction of paths and
layout. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 38, p. S80.
Cutting, J.E., R.F. Wang, & T.H. Chia. (May, 1997). Heading information
from minimal displays. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science,
38, p. S481.
Flückiger, M., Cutting, J.E., Leoni-Salem, C., & Baumberger, B. (Sept,
1996). Object and path perception in simulated locomotion. 19th
European Conference on Visual Perception. Perception, 25 (Supplement),
S89.
Cutting, J.E. (May, 1996). How the eye measures reality and virtual
reality. Symposium on high-performance computer applications in the behavioral
sciences. Minneapolis, MN.
Vishton, P.M., Cutting, J.E., & Simons, D.J. (April, 1996). Driving simulation
provides a more ecological assessment of human heading perception in foggy
conditions. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 37, p.
S433.
Flückiger, M., Cutting, J.E., Baumberger, B., & Leoni-Salem, C. (April,
1996). How do we map environments as we move through them? Investigative
Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 37, p. S455.
Cutting, J.E., Flückiger, M., Baumberger, B., & Gerndt, J.D. (April, 1996).
Local heading information and layout from full-cue simulated pursuit-fixation
displays. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 37, p.
S455.
Cutting, J.E. (March, 1996). Perceiving and understanding depth.
Annual Meeting of the Society of Experimental Psychologists. Providence,
RI.
Cutting, J.E. (July, 1995). Perceiving layout and knowing distances.
The 7th International Conference on Perception and Action. Marseille.
Vishton, P.M. & Cutting, J.E. (May, 1995). Veridical size perception for
action: Reaching vs. estimating. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual
Science, 36, p. S358.
Cutting, J.E. & Vishton, P.A. (May, 1995). Heading and collision information
in full-cue simulated pursuit-fixation displays. Investigative Ophthalmology
& Visual Science, 36, p. S829.
Cutting, J.E. & Vishton, P.M. (November, 1994). Perceiving layout and
knowing distances. 35th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis,
MO.
Cutting, J.E. (1994). The perception of layout and the tenth Gibson lecture.
Psych Notes, 3, 1, 4-5.
Vishton, P.M., Nijhawan, R., & Cutting, J.E. (1994). Moving observers utilize
static depth cues in determining their direction of motion. Investigative
Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 35, p. 2000.
Cutting, J.E. & Vishton, P.M. (August, 1993). Mental maps not flowfields
are used in human navigation. 16th European Conference in Visual Perception,
Edinburgh, Scotland. Abstract reprinted in Perception, 22 (Supplement),
p. 11.
Cutting, J.E. (June, 1993). Motion, images, and scientific imagination.
5th conference of the Academie du Midi, Tuchan, France.
Cutting, J.E. (Spring, 1993). Viviani speaks on perception, motor competencies
for ninth Gibson lecture. Psych Notes, 2, 4.
Cutting, J.E. & Braren, P.A. (November, 1992). Visual information during
locomotion for avoiding stationary objects. 33rd Meeting of the Psychonomic
Society, St Louis.
Cutting, J.E. (October, 1992). In Review: Ulric Neisser's "The ecological
and social roots of Cognition." Psych Notes, 2, 6-7.
Cutting, J.E. (July, 1992). Beyond Gibson's legacies. Paper presented
as part of the symposium on Theories of Perception at the End of the 20th
Century, at the 25th International Congress of Psychology, Brussels. Abstract
published in the International Journal of Psychology, 27, 3-4.
Cutting, J.E. (November, 1991). Do moving observers decompose retinal
flow? Paper presented at the 32nd Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
San Francisco.
Cutting, J.E. (July-August, 1991). Establishing psychology at Cornell:
The Titchener Years. Exhibit at Olin Library for the Cornell Psychology
Centennial Celebration, Ithaca.
Cutting, J.E. (June, 1991). On how little feature detectors have told
us about motion in the real world. Paper presented at the Cornell Summer
Symposium on Ecological Approaches to the Biological Substrates of Vision,
Ithaca.
Cutting, J.E. (November, 1990). Wayfinding from multiple sources of
information. Paper presented at the 31st Meeting of the Psychonomic
Society, New Orleans.
1980-1989
Cutting, J.E. (November, 1989). Wayfinding on foot by differential motion
parallax. Paper presented at the 30th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
Atlanta.
Cutting, J.E. (August, 1989). The ethics of publishing: The changing
boundary between ethics and etiquette. Symposium participant, 87th
Meeting of the American Psychological Association Convention, New Orleans.
Cutting, J.E. (August, 1989). How we find our way through cluttered
environments. Invited address. 87th Meeting of the American Psychological
Association Convention, New Orleans.
Cutting, J.E. & Bruno, N. (November, 1987). Minimodularity and visual
information about depth. Paper presented at the 28th Meeting of the
Psychonomic Society, Seattle.
Cutting, J.E. (September, 1987). Cinematic efficacy, or what the visual
system did not evolve to do. Paper presented at the NASA Spatial Displays
and Spatial Instruments Conference and Workshop, Asilomar.
Cutting, J.E. (August, 1987). Rigidity in cinema seen from the front
row, side aisle. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference
on Event Perception and Action, Trieste.
Bruno, N. & Cutting, J.E. (August, 1987). Multiple specification of
perceived distance. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference
on Event Perception and Action, Trieste.
Cutting, J.E. (April, 1987). Reply to Mandelbrot's "Fractals: Complex
relationships in mathematics, the sciences, and the arts." Presented
at the Conference on "Analyzing the inchoate: Complex interrelations in
the Humanities and Sciences." Ithaca.
Cutting, J.E. (November, 1986). Fractals and complexity. Paper
presented at the 27th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans.
Cutting, J.E. (August, 1986). Three kinds of inference in perception.
Paper presented at the APA Symposium on "Computation, Inference, and Perception:
Theoretical Essays in honor of Irvin Rock." 84th Meeting of the American
Psychological Association, Washington.
Cutting, J.E. (July, 1986). Information, inference, and perception.
Paper presented at the Cornell Summer Symposium on Perception of Cognition,
Ithaca.
Cutting, J.E. (November, 1985). Rigidity in cinema seen from the front
row, side aisle. Paper presented at the 26th Meeting of the Psychonomic
Society, Boston.
Cutting, J.E. (January, 1985). On knowing where you are going.
Paper presented at the 10th Interdisciplinary Conference, Jackson Hole.
Cutting, J.E. (November, 1984). Going with the flow. Paper presented
at the 25th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Antonio.
Cutting, J.E. (November, 1983). Three gradients and the perception of
flat and curved surfaces. Paper presented at the 24th Meeting of the
Psychonomic Society, San Diego.
Cutting, J.E. (September, 1983). On the recovery of structure in event
perception. Paper presented at the 81st meeting of the American Psychological
Association, Anaheim.
Cutting, J.E. (February, 1983). On the underdetermination of perception
by invariants. Invited address before the Lake Ontario Vision Establishment,
Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Cutting, J.E. (January, 1983). Perception and invariants. Paper
presented at the 8th Interdisciplinary Conference, Steamboat Springs.
Cutting, J.E. (November, 1982). Cross ratio: An invariant of layout
sometimes perceived, sometimes not. Paper presented at the 23rd Meeting
of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis.
Cutting, J.E. (October, 1982). Motion parallax and visual flow: How
to determine direction of locomotion. Paper presented at the 4th meeting
of the International Society of Ecological Psychology, Hartford.
Cutting, J.E. (August, 1982). Perceiving invariant cross ratios in rotating
objects. Paper presented at the 15th Meeting of the Society for Mathematical
Psychology, Princeton.
Cutting, J.E. (November, 1981). Blowing in the Wind: Perceiving structure
in trees and bushes. Paper presented at the 22nd Meeting of Psychonomic
Society, Philadelphia.
Cutting, J.E. (November, 1980). Perceiving moving wholes and moving
parts. Paper presented at the 21st Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
St. Louis.
1970-1979
Cutting, J.E. (November, 1978). Invariance and the deep structure of
events. Paper presented at the 19th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
San Antonio.
Cutting, J.E. (November, 1977). An invariant for gait perception without
familiarity cues. Paper presented at the 18th Meeting of the Psychonomic
Society, Washington D.C.
Cutting, J.E. (November, 1976). There may be nothing peculiar to perceiving
in the speech mode. Paper presented at the 17th Meeting of the Psychonomic
Society, St. Louis.
Jusczyk, P.W., Rosner, B.S., Cutting, J.E., Foard, C.F. & Smith, L. (April,
1975). Categorical perception of nonspeech sounds in the two-month-old
infant. Paper presented to the biennial meeting of the Society for
Research in Child Development, Denver.
Sawusch, J.R., Pisoni, D.B. & Cutting, J.E. (1974). Category boundaries
for linguistic and nonlinguistic dimensions of the same stimuli. Journal
of the Acoustical Society of America, 55, S55 (Abstract).
Dorman, M.R., Cutting, J.E. & Raphael, L.J. (1974). Perception of temporal
order in vowel sequences with and without formant transitions. Journal
of the Acoustical Society of America, 56, S54 (Abstract).
Day, R.S., Bartlett, J.C. & Cutting, J.E. (1973). Memory for dichotic pairs:
Disruption of ear report performance by the speech-nonspeech distinction.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 53, 358 (Abstract).
Cutting, J.E. (1973). Ear advantage for stops and liquids initial and final
position. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 54, 285
(Abstract).
Cutting, J.E. (1973). A parallel between degree of encodedness and the ear
advantage: Evidence from an ear-monitoring task. Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America, 53, 358 (Abstract).
Cutting, J.E., & Day, R.S. (1972). Dichotic fusion along an acoustic continuum.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 52, 175 (Abstract).
Huesmann, L.R., Brelsford, J.W., Cutting, J.E., & Lang, M. (November, 1971).
Retrieval strategies in complex memory scanning tasks. Paper presented
at the 11th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis.
Day, R.S., Cutting, J.E. & Copeland, P.M. (November, 1971). Perception
of linguistic and nonlinguistic dimensions of dichotic stimuli. Paper
presented at the 11th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis.
Day, R.S. & Cutting, J.E. (April, 1971). What constitutes perceptual
competition in dichotic listening? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting
of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York.
Day, R.S. & Cutting J.E. (1971). Perceptual competition between speech and
nonspeech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 49, 85
(Abstract).
Day, R.S. & Cutting, J.E. (November 1970). Levels of processing in speech
perception. Paper presented at the 10th Meeting of the Psychonomic
Society, San Antonio.
colloquia & invited addresses
Workshop on"Current Controveries in Cognition," Trieste, Italy,
November 2007
The bases of culture are unattended and unintended: An empirical historiography
of an artistic canon
Establishing and maintaining artistic canon
November 2007: Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy
November 2007: Università di Bologna, Italy
October 2007: Université de Genève, Switzerland
October 2007: University of Toronto, Mississauga
October 2005: Cornell University
October 2005: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Series of Lectures at St. Bonaventure University, April 2004:
The canon of French impressionism
America and French impressionism
Mere exposure and French impressionism
Series of Lectures for the Provost's "Power of Sight"
seminar at the University of Pennsylvania, November 1999:
Depicting depth and perceiving the world
Images, Imagination, and Motion
Wayfinding and the detection of motion in movement
Series of Lectures at the Université de Genève, March 1997:
En prenant conscience de l'espace: How we perceive layout
and know distances
En prenant conscience du mouvement: How we have come to understand
movement
En prenant conscience du mouvement dans l'espace: How we know where
we are going
Perceiving Depth and Knowing Distances
November 2006: Kwansei Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan
October 2005: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
July 1996: Collegé de France, Paris, France
October 1995: State University of New York at Buffalo, Center for Cognitive
Science
April 1995: University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Research in Cognitive
Science
December 1994: Università degli studi di Padova, Italy
February 1994: Cornell University, 10th James J. Gibson Memorial Lecture
November 1993: Université de Genevé, Switzerland
February 1993: Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Selectivity, Scope, and Simplicity of Models: A lesson from fitting judgments and perceived depth
February 1993: Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands
How we avoid collisions with stationary and moving objects
December 1994: Fondazione Centro San Raffaele Del Monte Tabor, Dipartimento di Scienze Cognitive, Milano, Italy
June 1993: Université Stendalhl, Grenoble, France
June 1993: Université de Genevé, Switzerland
May 1993: Università degli studi di Trieste, Italy
April 1993: Université René Descartes (Paris V), France
March 1993: Universiteit Leuven, The Netherlands
February 1993: Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands
October 1992: Dartmouth College, the 25th Wolfgang Köhler Memorial Lecture
Wayfinding from retinal flow
February 1993: Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands
October 1991: Syracuse University
June 1991: University of Rochester
November 1990: University of Wisconsin
July 1990: University of Connecticut
May 1990: Università degli studi di Padova, Italy
December 1989: New School for Social Research
September 1989: Yale University
June 1989: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field
October 1988: University of Illinois
March 1987: Rutgers University
December 1985: University of Arizona
March 1985: University of Michigan
February 1985: Cornell University
January 1984: Atari Sunnyvale Research Laboratory, Sunnyvale, CA
December 1983: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field
Perception of pictures from the side
May 1990: Università degli studi di Padova, Italy
Fractals and complexity
March 1987: Wesleyan University
Information, inference, and perception
June 1989: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field
April 1986: Cornell University
Multiple sources of information in the optic array
March 1987: Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
February 1984: University of California, San Diego
February 1984: University of California, Santa Cruz
October 1983: Stanford University
Gradients and the perception of surfaces
May 1990: Università degli studi di Verona, Italy
October 1983: University of California, Berkeley
April 1983: Vanderbilt University
April 1983: Cornell University
March 1983: State University of New York at Buffalo
March 1983: Stanford University
November 1982: University of Wisconsin
March 1982: University of Virginia
Perceiving the structure of events
March 1993: Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, Universiteit Leuven, Centennial Lecture, Leuven, Belgium
May 1990: Università degli studi di Roma, "La Sapienza," Italy
December 1984: Learning Research and Development Center, Pittsburgh
March 1983: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Palo Alto
March 1983: Atari Sunnyvale Research Laboratory, Sunnyvale, CA
October 1981: Columbia University
March 1980: Duke University
December 1979: Cornell University
October 1979: Brandeis University
January 1979: Yale University
November 1978: University of Toronto
September 1978: Wesleyan University
May 1978: University of California at Berkeley
April 1978: Salk Institute of Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA
Blowing in the wind: On the perceived relations among trees and bushes
April 1981: Cornell University
Plucks and bows revisited: A case study in the sociology and technology of science
November 1980: Cornell University
What the perception of movement and of speech might tell us about the perception of sign language
November 1980: Cornell University
Perception of rotary motion
November 1978: Wesleyan University
February 1978: Stanford University
January 1978: University of Oregon
Gait synthesis
March 1978: Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA
October 1977: Stanford University
Perceiving how we walk: Gait perception without familiarity cues
January 1978: University of Oregon
October 1977: Stanford University
Walking and talking: Some conceptual parallels
March 1977: Wesleyan University
Parallels between the perception of speech and music
May 1978: University of California at Berkeley
April 1978: Stanford University
April 1977: Brown University
March 1977: University of Massachusetts
February 1977: Rockefeller University
November 1976: University of California, San Diego
March 1976: Columbia University
October 1975: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Feature detection in speech and music
February 1976: Wesleyan University
Auditory and linguistic processes in speech perception: Inferences from six fusions in dichotic listening
October 1975: Yale University
The magical number two plus or minus a small fudge factor: Some limits on our ability to process information
September 1974: Wesleyan University
Fusion, rivalry, and "cyclotean" perception
March 1974: Princeton University
March 1974: University of Pennsylvania
March 1974: Cornell University
March 1974: University of Connecticut
February 1974: Wesleyan University