Guy A H Taylor-Covill

Increased stair climbing reduces cardiovascular disease risk. While signage interventions for workplace stair climbing offer a low-cost tool to improve population health, inconsistent effects of intervention occur. Pedestrian movement within...

The apparent steepness of hills and stairs is overestimated in explicit perception. These overestimations are malleable in that when physiological resources are compromised, apparent steepness is further overestimated. An alternative...

The apparent steepness of the locomotor challenge presented by hills and staircases is overestimated in explicit awareness. Experimental evidence suggests the visual system may rescale our conscious experience of steepness...

Perception of hill slant is exaggerated in explicit awareness. Proffitt (Perspectives on Psychological Science 1:110-122, 2006) argued that explicit perception of the slant of a climb allows individuals to plan...

In a recent paper, we provided independent evidence on the accuracy of 'haptically' measured geographical slant perception (Taylor-Covill & Eves, 2013). Durgin (2013) argues that the devices used in our...

The apparent slope of a hill or staircase, termed geographical slant perception, is exaggerated in explicit awareness. Across two experiments this paper tests the use of a laboratory environment to...

In two recent issues of Acta, the widely accepted view of Proffitt (2006), that 'haptic' measures of perceived geographical slant are generally accurate, and dissociated from explicit overestimates, came under...