The Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL) was well represented by faculty, alumnus, and students at the annual North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity meeting (NASPSPA), June 12-14.

Professor Michael Wade, Ph.D., chaired a seminar titled, “Atypical motor development: Issues in children with developmental coordination disorder,”  and Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor of kinesiology and director of the APAL, served as the discussant for this seminar.

APAL alumna Dr. Yawen Yu was lead author on a talk given at NASPSPA titled, “Exploratory movement as a general process for affordance perception.” Stoffregen and former APAL research assistant (B.S., Kinesiology, ’11) Lauren Hemingway co-authored the talk. 

During the conference APAL members presented the following posters:

• Perception of Affordances From Photographs. Eric Haaland, Justin Munafo, and Thomas A. Stoffregen.
• Precursors of Post-Bout Motion Sickness in Adolescent Female Boxers. Yi-Chou Chen, T. C. Tseng, T. S. Hung, & Thomas A. Stoffregen.
• Postural Precursors of Motion Sickness and Concussion-Related Symptoms in Adult Male Boxers. Yi-Chou Chen, T. S. Hung, T.C. Tseng, & Thomas A. Stoffregen.
• Expert handball goalkeepers make accurate decisions about 7-m throw directions before ball release. Khaled E Alsharji & Michael G. Wade. 
• The horizon affects postural sway in older adults at sea. Justin Munafo, Thomas A. Stoffregen, & Michael G. Wade.
• Sexual dimorphism in susceptibility to motion sickness.Frank Koslucher, Eric Haaland, & Thomas A. Stoffregen.