Dr. Alen Hajnal
Professor
Bio
Dr. Hajnal's research focuses on perception and action, affordances, time series analysis of perceptual, motor and physiological processes. Recent empirical work includes the use of virtual reality technology and motion capture systems. Dr. Hajnal regularly publishes in and conducts ad hoc peer review for the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, Ecological Psychology, Experimental Brain Research, and others. Please check out Dr. Hajnal's Lab webpage for more information: https://sites.google.com/view/paclab
- Ecological Psychology (PHD) - University of Connecticut (2007)
PSY420 - Sensation and Perception
PSY425 - Cognitive Psychology
PSY360 - Undergraduate Statistics
PSY361 - Research Methods
PSY475 - Senior Seminar
PSY726 - Perception
PSY783 - MATLAB Programming for Behavioral Scientists
- Affordance norms for 2825 concrete nouns, Behavior Research Methods, 2024,
- The Modern Legacy of Gibson's Affordances for the Sciences of Organisms, 2024,
- The Complexity of Head Movement is Correlated with Learning about Affordances for Walking, Journal of Motor Behavior, 2024,
- The Affordance Directive: Affordance Priming Facilitates Object Detection Similar to Semantic Priming, Psychological Reports, 2023,
- Does Optic Flow Provide Information about Actions?, Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 2023,
- How Frequent is the Spontaneous Occurrence of Synchronized Walking in Daily Life?, Experimental Brain Research, 2023,
- Complex Postural Sway is Related to Perception of Stand-on-Ability, Ecological Psychology, 2022,
- Visual and Haptic Perception of Affordances of Feelies, Journal of Vision, 2021,
- Fractality of Body Movements Predicts Perception of Affordances: Evidence From Stand-On-Ability Judgments About Slopes, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2018,
- International Society for Ecological Psychology
- Psychonomic Society
- Vision Science Society
- English (Full Professional)
- Hungarian (Native or Bilingual)
- Croatian (Native or Bilingual)
- Serbian (Native or Bilingual)