School of Kinesiology professor Thomas Stoffregen, Ph.D., director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, has published an article in the Malaysian Journal of Movement, Health, and Exercise. Effect of caffeine on standing balance during perceptual-cognitive tasks found that caffeine can exert subtle effects on balance performance in relation to specific perceptual-cognitive conditions.

One of the authors involved in the study, Prof. Nurtekin Erkmen (Selcuk University, Turkey), was a Visiting Scholar in APAL in 2015-2016.

Thomas Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, was quoted in an article in the Smithsonian.com. “Could These Glasses Cure Your Motion Sickness?”  describes a new concept, Boarding Glasses, created by a French company to alleviate the effects of motion sickness by creating an artificial horizon when worn. Stoffregen, who has pioneered the theory that keeping the body stable is the key to mitigating the effects of motion sickness, is skeptical that technology can be a remedy. He points out that proven remedies involve actually looking at the horizon.

Stoffregen says in the article: “One thing that demonstrably does help for seasickness is to get up on deck and look at the actual horizon. In automobiles, I say sit in front and look out the window. Don’t look at the grass going by—look at the horizon. Also, sit down and use the headrest.”

The glasses will not be available for several months.

Thomas Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, has published an article with two colleagues in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. The article, “Higher order affordances for reaching: Perception and performance,” discusses the findings of a study in which it was determined that goals of a reaching task and the means by which reaching occurred influenced the subjects’ judgements of maximum reaching height.