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Dr. Jay Smart
Assistant Professor of Psychology

University Affiliations
Dept. of Psychology
Psychology Faculty
Brain & Cog Sci Program


Education
Ph. D., 1999
University of Cincinnati

L. James Smart, Ph. D.
Department of Psychology
318 Psychology Building
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056

(513) 529-1656 (voice)
(513) 529-2420 (fax)

smartlj@muohio.edu (e-mail)

Research Interests
My interests lie in the areas of spatial orientation and adaptation, our sense of our position (as well as other objects) in the environment and our ability to modify or adjust to novel situations. I am interested in how our perceptual and action systems are coordinatred in order to achieve proper orientation/adaptation. To that end I study the relation between vision and postural control and how our behavioral tasks/goals influence this coupling. In particular, I study motion sickness in real and simulated environments as it is often the consequence of disruptions in visual/postural coordination and adaptation. I am also interested in other aspects of visual perception and human factors.
Representative Publications

Smart, L. J., Hettinger, L. J., & Stroffregen, T. A. (1999). A comparison of two forms of visually induced motion sickness. Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology.

Stoffregen, T. A., Smart, L. J., Bardy, B. G., & Pagulayan, R. J. (1999). Postural stabilization of looking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 25(6), 1641-1658.

Smart, L. J., Pagulayan, R. J., & Stoffregen, T. A. (1998). Self-induced motion sickess in unperturbed stance. Brain Research Bulletin, 47(5), 449-457.

Stoffregen, T. A. & Smart, L. J. (1998). Postural instability precedes motion sickness. Brain Research Bulletin, 47(5), 437-448.

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