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Overview

John J. Rieser is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on developmental and social aspects within these domains.

The scientist's work covers several subfields, including developmental and educational psychology, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Child and animal learning development
  • Action observation and synchronization
  • Neuroscience and music perception

Among recent publications, John J. Rieser contributed to a study titled "Non-random acts of kindness: Joint music making increases preschoolers' helping and sharing with an adult", published in 2020 in the journal Psychology of Music.

They have collaborated frequently with Sara Beck on research projects. The Psychology of Music journal is a repeated venue for their publications.

Best Publications

  • Teaching thinking and problem solving: Research foundations.

    John Bransford;Robert Sherwood;Nancy Vye;John Rieser

  • Access to Knowledge of Spatial Structure at Novel Points of Observation

    John J. Rieser

  • Calibration of human locomotion and models of perceptual-motor organization.

    John J. Rieser;Herbert L. Pick;Daniel H. Ashmead;Anne E. Garing

  • Visual Perception and the Guidance of Locomotion without Vision to Previously Seen Targets

    John J Rieser;Daniel H Ashmead;Charles R Talor;Grant A Youngquist

  • Bayesian integration of spatial information

    Ken Cheng;Sara J. Shettleworth;Janellen Huttenlocher;John J. Rieser

  • Sensitivity to perspective structure while walking without vision.

    John J Rieser;David A Guth;Everett W Hill

  • Exploring large virtual environments with an HMD when physical space is limited

    Betsy Williams;Gayathri Narasimham;Bjoern Rump;Timothy P. McNamara

  • Imagery, action, and young children's spatial orientation: it's not being there that counts, it's what one has in mind.

    John J. Rieser;Anne E. Garing;Michael F. Young

  • Environmental Context Influences Visually Perceived Distance

    Joseph S. Lappin;Amy L. Shelton;John J. Rieser

  • The role of visual experience in knowledge of spatial layout

    John J. Rieser;Jeffrey J. Lockman;Herbert L. Pick

  • Updating orientation in large virtual environments using scaled translational gain

    Betsy Williams;Gayathri Narasimham;Tim P. McNamara;Thomas H. Carr

  • Visual experience, visual field size, and the development of nonvisual sensitivity to the spatial structure of outdoor neighborhoods explored by walking.

    John J. Rieser;Everett W. Hill;Charles R. Talor;Anna Bradfield

  • How Persons with Visual Impairments Explore Novel Spaces: Strategies of Good and Poor Performers.

    E.W. Hill;J.J. Rieser;M.-M. Hill;M. Hill

  • The shape of human navigation: how environmental geometry is used in maintenance of spatial orientation.

    Jonathan W. Kelly;Timothy P. McNamara;Bobby Bodenheimer;Thomas H. Carr

  • Mental Processes Mediating Independent Travel: Implications for Orientation and Mobility:

    John J. Rieser;David A. Guth;Everett W. Hill

  • Spatial Orientation of Six-Month-Old Infants.

    John J. Rieser

  • Young Children's Spatial Orientation with Respect to Multiple Targets When Walking without Vision.

    John J. Rieser;Elizabeth A. Rider

  • Calibration of locomotion resulting from visual motion in a treadmill-based virtual environment

    Betty J. Mohler;William B. Thompson;Sarah H. Creem-Regehr;Peter Willemsen

  • Mobility in individuals with moderate visual impairments

    R.G. Long;J.J. Rieser;E.W. Hill

  • Spatial self-reference systems and shortest-route behavior in toddlers.

    John J. Rieser;Marsha L. Heiman

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy P. McNamara
Timothy P. McNamara Vanderbilt University
Thomas H. Carr
Thomas H. Carr Michigan State University
Carolyn Zahn-Waxler
Carolyn Zahn-Waxler University of Wisconsin–Madison
Peter A. Ornstein
Peter A. Ornstein University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Charles A. Nelson
Charles A. Nelson Boston Children's Hospital
Joseph S. Lappin
Joseph S. Lappin Vanderbilt University
Ross D. Parke
Ross D. Parke University of California, Riverside
Jeanine K. Stefanucci
Jeanine K. Stefanucci University of Utah
Janellen Huttenlocher
Janellen Huttenlocher University of Chicago
Albert Yonas
Albert Yonas Arizona State University

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