Publications and Presentations

Houck, L.A., Kravitz, D.J., & Philbeck, J.W. (2022) Environment width robustly influences egocentric distance judgments. PLoS ONE 17(2): e0263497. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0263497.  Journal link.  PDF. 

Brunyé, T. T., Haga, Z. D., Houck, L. A., & Taylor, H. A. (2017). You look lost: Understanding uncertainty and representational flexibility in navigation. In Representations in Mind and World (pp. 42-56). Routledge.  Journal link. 

Brunyé, T. T., Wood, M. D., Houck, L. A., & Taylor, H. A. (2017). The Path More Traveled: Time Pressure Increases Reliance on Familiar Route-based Strategies During Navigation. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(8), 1439-1452. Doi:10.1080/17470218.2016.1187637. Journal link. PDF. 

Brunyé, T. T., Moran, J. M., Houck, L. A., Taylor, H. A., & Mahoney, C. R. (2016). Registration errors in beacon-based navigation guidance systems: Influences on path efficiency and user reliance. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 96, 1-11. Doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2016.07.008. Journal link. PDF.  

Brunyé, T. T., Burte, H., Houck, L. A., & Taylor, H. A. (2015). The map in our head is not oriented north: Evidence from a real-world environment. PLoS one,10(9), e0135803. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0135803. Journal link. PDF. 

Axelrod, A., & Houck, L. (2023). Investigating the Effects of Valence and Arousal on the Boundary Extension/Constriction Phenomenon. Annual Mount David Summit. Bates College, Lewiston, ME. March 2023. Online abstract.

Houck, L.A. (2023). Virtual Reality in Neuroscience: What virtual immersive environments can tell us about the brain and behavior. Talk presented for the Bates Faculty Brownbag series. Lewiston, ME. February 2023.

Houck, L.A. (2020). The Influence of Prior Knowledge of Virtual Environments on Distance Judgments. Talk presented at the Capital Area Cognition, Attention, and Perception Conference. Washington, DC. January 2020. 

Mahableshwarkar, P., Houck, L., Kravitz, D., & Philbeck, J. (2022). A Novel Generalization Between Verbal Judgments and Perceptual Discrimination of 3D Space. Annual Object Perception Attention and Memory conference, Boston, MA. November 2022. Online abstract. 

Mahableshwarkar, P., Houck, L., Kravitz, D., & Philbeck, J. (2022). A Novel Generalization Between Verbal Judgments and Perceptual Discrimination of 3D Space. Annual Psychonomic Society Meeting, Boston, MA. November 2022. Online abstract. 

Houck, L., & Philbeck, J (2022). The Equidistance Tendency is Not Responsible For the Effect of Room Width on Distance Judgments. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL, May 2022. Online abstract. 

Houck, L., & Philbeck, J. (2020). Assessing Distance Estimation in Brief Viewing Durations in Virtual Reality. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, online due to COVID-19. June 2020. Online abstract. 

Mahableshwarkar, P., Houck, L., & Philbeck, J. (2020) Remembered Environmental Context Facilitates Distance Perception in Early Stages of Brief Glimpses. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, online due to COVID-19. June 2020. Online abstract. 

Houck, L., Timmons, K., & Philbeck, J. (2019). Knowledge of Environmental Boundaries and its Influence on Blind Walking Distance Judgments. Annual Psychonomic Society Meeting, Montréal, QC, CA. November 2019. Online abstract. 

Houck, L., & Philbeck, J. (2018). The Effects of Spatial Properties of the Environment on Distance Judgments. Annual Psychonomic Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA. November 2018. Online abstract. 

Griffith, I., Houck, L., Malik, T., & Philbeck, J. (2018). Why seeing the floor matters: How the nearby ground plane affects distance perception. Annual Object Perception Attention and Memory conference, New Orleans, LA. November 2018. Online abstract. 

Houck, L., & Philbeck, J. (2018). The Influence of Environmental Features on Egocentric Distance Judgments in Virtual Rendered Scenes. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL, May 2018. Online abstract. 

Houck, L., Mihelic, S., Philbeck, J. (2017). Effects of Room Width on Egocentric Distance Judgments in Real-World Scenes. Annual Object Perception Attention and Memory conference, Vancouver, BC, November 2017. Online abstract. 

Philbeck, J.W., Kravitz, D.J., Mitroff, S.R., & Houck, L.A. (2017). Contextual influences of room width and depth on egocentric distance judgments in natural scenes. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL, May 2017. Online abstract. 

Houck, L., Konig, K., Kreher, G., Anderson, E., Duquette, J., Parrish, E., Vasilyeva, N., & Coley, J. D. (2014). What makes a good explanation? Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors in explanation evaluation. Annual meeting of the Northeastern University Research, Innovation, and Scholarship Expo, Boston, MA, April 2014.