Research publications
Kennedy, J.M. and Juricevic, I. (2006) Foreshortening, convergence and drawings from a blind adult. Perception, 35, 847-851.
Kennedy, J.M. and Juricevic, I. (2006) Blind man draws using convergence in three dimensions. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 13(3), 506-509.
Kennedy, J.M. (2005) Lo tangible y lo visible en los dibujos que realizan las personas ciegas. [Drawings by the blind use what is visible as well as what is tangible.] Integracion, 44,7-12.
Kennedy, J. M. and Bai, J. (2004) Line at shape-from-shadow border tested with stereo. Perception, 33, 653-665 [Figure selected for Viper website of perception displays: York Univ, UK]
Vervaeke, J. and Kennedy, J. M. (2004) Conceptual metaphor and abstract thought Metaphor and Symbol. 19(3), 213-231
Kennedy, J. M. and Juricevic, I. (2003) Haptics and projection: Drawings by Tracy, a blind adult. Perception, 32, 1059-1071
Kennedy, J. M. (2003) Drawings by Gaia, a blind girl Perception, 32, 321-340
Chiappe, D., Kennedy, J.M. and Chiappe, P. (2003) Aptness is more important than comprehensibility in predicting recognition bias and preference for metaphors and similes. Poetics, 31, 51-68
Chiappe, D., Kennedy, J. M. and Smykowski, T. (2003) Reversibility, aptness and the conventionality of metaphors and similes Metaphor and Symbol, 18, 85-105
Kennedy, J. M. and Juricevic, I. (2002) Foreshortening gives way to forelengthening Perception, 31, 893-894.
Kennedy, J.M. and Bai, J. (2002) Haptic pictures: fit judgments predict identification, recognition memory, and confidence Perception, 31, 1013-1026
Kennedy, J. M. (2002) Eclipse, shape-from-shadow and perceiving astronomic size - Earth's. Perception, 31, 1027-1029
D'Anguilli, A. and Kennedy, J. M. (2001) Children's tactual exploration and copying without vision International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 24, 233-234.
Chiappe, D. and Kennedy, J. M. (2001) Literal bases for metaphor and simile. Metaphor and Symbol [Special issue Editor: R. Giora], 16, 249-276.
D'Anguilli, A. and Kennedy, J. M. (2000) Guided exploration enhances
tactual picture
recognition in blindfolded sighted children. International Journal of
Rehabilitation Research, 23, 319-320.
Kennedy, J. M. and Merkas, C. (2000) Depictions of motion devised by a blind person. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 7, 700-706
Kennedy, J.M. and Bai, J. (2000) Cavanagh and Leclerc shape-from-shadow
pictures: do line
versions fail because of the polarity of the regions or the contour? Perception,
29, 399-407
Cavanagh, P. and Kennedy, J. M. (2000) Close encounters: small details veto depth from shadows, Science, 287, 2451
Chiappe, D.L. and Kennedy, J.M. (2000) Are metaphors elliptical similes? Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29, 371--398
Chiappe, D.L. and Kennedy, J.M. (1999) Aptness predicts preference for metaphors or similes as well as recall bias. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 6, 668--676
Mirabella, G. and Kennedy, J.M. (1999) Which way is upright and normal? Haptic perception of letters above head level. Perception and Psychophysics, 61, 909-918.
Kennedy, J.M. and Chiappe, D. (1999) What makes a metaphor stronger than a simile? Metaphor and Symbol, 14, 63--69. [Special issue]
D'Angiulli, A., Kennedy, J.M. and Heller, M.A. (1998). Blind children recognizing tactile pictures respond like sighted children given guidance in exploration. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 39,189-190.
Kennedy, V.R. and Kennedy, J.M. (1998) Form symbolism can be extended by style Acta Analytica , 20, 155-174.
Liu, C.H. and Kennedy, J.M., (1997), Form symbolism, analogy and metaphor Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 4, 546-551.
Vervaeke, J. and Kennedy, J.M. (1996). Metaphors in language and thought: Disproof and multiple meanings. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 11 , 273-284.
Berntsen, D. and Kennedy, J.M. (1996) Unresolved contradictions specify attitudes - in metaphor, irony, understatement and tautology. Poetics, 24, 13-29.
Nicholls, A. L. and Kennedy, J.M. (1995). Foreshortening in cube drawings by children and adults. Perception, 24, 1443-1556.
Heller, M.A., Kennedy, J.M. and Joyner, A.D. (1995). Production and interpretation of pictures of houses by blind people. Perception, 1049-1058.
Liu, C.H. and Kennedy, J.M. (1995). Misalignment effects in 3-D versions of Poggendorff displays. Perception and Psychophysics, 1995, 57, 409-415.
Liu, C.H. and Kennedy, J.M. (1994). Symbolic forms can be mnemonics for recall. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 1, 494-498.
Kennedy, J.M. and Kennedy, V.R. (1994). Realism as a basis for reinterpretation in visual metaphor, Canadian Journal of Rhetorical Studies, 4, 106-120.
Kennedy, J.M. (1994). Diderot, Katz and axial theory of outline tactile pictures. Revista de Psicologia, General y Aplicada, 47, 25-39. (Translated by J.C.F. Trespalacios)
Berntsen, D. and Kennedy, J.M. (1994). Contradictions between metaphors: A means of expressing an attitude. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 9, 193-210.
Nicholls, A. and Kennedy, J.M. (1993). Angular subtense effects on perception of polar and parallel projections of cubes. Perception and Psychophysics, 54, 763-772.
Nicholls, A. and Kennedy, J.M. (1993). Foreshortening and the perception of parallel projections. Perception and Psychophysics, 1993, 54, 665-674.
Kennedy, J.M., Green, C.D. and Vervaeke, J. (1993). Metaphoric thought and devices in pictures. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 8, 243-255.
Kennedy, J.M. and Kennedy, V.R. (1993). Issue editors: Metaphor and Pictures. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 8, #3.
Kennedy, J.M. and Vervaeke, J. (1993). Metaphor and knowledge attained via the body. Philosophical Psychology, 6, 407-412.
Kennedy, J.M., Green, C.D., Nicholls, A. and Liu, C.H. (1992). Illusions and knowing what is real. Ecological Psychology, 4, 153-172.
Nicholls, A. and Kennedy, J.M. (1992). Drawing development: from similarity of features to direction. Child Development, 63, 227-241.
Kennedy, J.M. (1990). Metaphor: Its intellectual basis. Metaphor and
Symbolic Activity, 5, 115-123.
Heller, M. A. and Kennedy, J.M. (1990). Perspective taking, pictures,
and the blind Perception and Psychophysics, 48, 459-466.
Kennedy, J.M. and Portal A. (1990) Illusions: Can change of vantage point and invariant impressions remove deception? Ecological Psychology, 2, 37-53.
Kennedy, J.M. (1989). Universals of depiction, illusion as non pictorial and limits to depiction. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 12, 88-90.
Kennedy, J.M. (1988). Line endings and subjective contours Spatial Vision, 3, 151-158.
Kennedy. J. M. and Domander R. (1986). Blind people depicting states and events in metaphoric line drawings. Metaphor & Symbolic Activity, 1986, 1, 109 126.
Kennedy, J.M. and Domander R. (1986). Postures of twig figures: Reactions by the blind and the sighted. International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 9, 63 66.
Kennedy, J.M. (1985). Its all done with mirrors: Proof of non existence Perception, 14, 513 514.
Kennedy, J.M. and Domander R. (1985). Shape and contour: the points of maximum change are least useful for recognition. Perception, 14, 367 370.
Kennedy, J.M. (1985). Arnheim, Gestalt theory and pictures Visual Arts Research, 11, 23 44.
Kennedy, J.M. and Campbell. (1985). Convergence principle in blind people's pointing. International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 8, 189 210.
Kennedy, J.M. and Gabias P. (1985). Metaphoric devices in drawings of motion mean the same to the blind and the sighted. Perception, 14, 189 195.
Kennedy, J.M. (1984). Gombrich and Winner: Schema theories of perception in aesthetics Visual Arts Research, 10, 30 36.
Kennedy, J.M (1984). Drawings by the blind: Sighted children and adults judge their sequence of development Visual Arts Research, 10, 1 6.
Kennedy, J.M. and Domander, R. (1984). Pictorial foreground background reversal reduces tactual recognition by the blind Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness , May, 78, 215 216.
Kennedy, J.M. (1983). What can we learn about pictures from the blind? American Scientist, 71, 19 26.
Kennedy, J.M. and Simpson W. (1982). For each kind of figure of speech there is a pictorial metaphor: A figure of depiction. Visual Arts Research, 16, 1 11.
Kennedy, J.M. (1982). Metaphor in pictures, Perception, 11, 589 605.
Kennedy, J.M. (1982). Depiction and its psychology Journal of Biocommunication, 9, 9 17.
Kennedy, J.M. (1981). Illusory brightness and the ends of petals: Change in brightness without aid of stratification or assimilation effects. Perception, 10, 583 585.
Kennedy, J.M. and Magee L.E. (1981). Can passive tactile perception be better than active? Nature, 292, 90.
Kennedy, J.M. (1980). Structuralism and experimental aesthetics: Bridging some gaps Motivation and Emotion, 4, 123 131.
Kennedy, J.M. (1980). A commentary on Rudolf Arnheim's approach to art and visual perception Leonardo, 13, 117 122.
Magee L.E. and Kennedy, J.M. (1980). Exploring pictures tactually. Nature, 283, 287 288.
Kennedy, J.M. (1978). Illusory contours and the ends of lines, Perception, 7, 605 607.
Kennedy, J.M. and Ware C. (1978) Perception of subjective lines, surfaces and volumes in 3 dimensional constructions (with C. Ware) Leonardo, 1978, 11, 111 114.
Kennedy, J.M. and Ware C. (1978). Illusory contours can arise in dot figures. Perception, 7, 191 194.
Kennedy, J.M. (1978). Illusory contours not due to completion Perception, 11, 187 189.
Kennedy, J.M. (1977). Natural reversing figures: Interleaving Stars of David. Perception, 6, 231 232.
Kennedy, J.M. (1977). African peoples abilities with outline drawings, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 35, 293 300.
Kennedy, J.M. and Ware. C. Illusory line linking solid rods. Perception, 1977, 6, 601 602.
Kennedy, J.M. (1976). Sun figure: an illusory diffuse contour resulting from an arrangement of dots. Perception, 5, 479 48l.
Kennedy, J.M. (1976). A figure density hypothesis and illusory contour brightness. Perception, 5, 387 392.
Kennedy, J.M. (1976). Comments on Deregowski's analysis of seeing a picture for the first time. Leonardo, 9, 219 221.
Kennedy, J.M. and Ross A. (1975). Outline picture perception by the Songe of Papua. Perception, 4, 39l 406.
Masterton, B.and Kennedy, J.M. (1975). Building the devil's tuning fork. Perception, 4, 107 109.
Kennedy, J.M. (1975). Mental pictures (Letter). Perception, 4, 120.
Kennedy, J.M. and Chattaway, L.D. (1975). Subjective contours, binocular and movement phenomena. Italian Journal of Psychology, 2, 353 367.
Kennedy, J.M. (1975). Depth at an edge, coplanarity, slant depth, change in direction and change in brightness in the production of subjective contours. Italian Journal of Psychology, 2, 107 123.
Kennedy, J.M. and Silver, J. (1974). The surrogate functions of lines in visual perception: Evidence from antipodal rock and cave art sources. Perception, 3, 313 322.
Kennedy, J.M. (1974). Is gradual recognition of pictures by Ethiopian subjects a differentiation process or a pattern construction process? Perception, 3, 29 3l.
Kennedy, J.M. (1973). Misunderstandings of figure and ground. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 14, 207 209.
Kennedy, J.M. (1972). Perceived lines are not always the sums of their contours. Journal of Structural Learning, 3, 7 10.
Kennedy, J.M., Mueller, E.and Tanimoto S. (1972). Visual structure and inherent motivation. Journal of Structural Learning, 3, 1 6.
Kennedy, J.M. (1971). Information and features in incomplete pictures. Journal of Structural Learning, 2, 73 75.
Kennedy, J.M. (1969). Prismatic adaptation and the remembered location of targets. Perception and Psychophysics, 5, 218 220.
Kennedy, J. M. (in press) Metaphor in art. In R. W. Gibbs (Ed.) Metaphor and thought (3rd Edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Juricevic, I. & Kennedy, J. M. (2005) Perspective picture perception: A test of the ART theory. In Studies in Perception and Action , VIII (H. Heft & K. L. Marsh, Eds). Erlbaum Press, Mahwah, N.J.. (pp. 245-248).
Juricevic, I. & Kennedy, J. M. (2005) Object constancy: object orientation affects relative depth in perspective pictures? In Studies in Perception and Action , VIII (H. Heft & K. L. Marsh, Eds). Erlbaum Press, Mahwah, N.J.. (pp. 248-253).
Kennedy, J. M. and Chiappe, D. (2005) Metaphors in movies. In J. Anderson and B. Anderson (Eds.) Moving Image Theory: Ecological Considerations Southern Illinois University Press: Carbondale, Ill. (pp. 228-242).
Kennedy, J. M. (2004) Sense and equivalence in children's art: Review of C. Golomb Child Art in Context APA 2002 Contemporary Psychology , 49,755-756
Kennedy, J. M. (2004) The blind draw surface edges from their own tactual vantage point. In Zoniou-Sideri, A. and Spandagou, I. (eds) Education and blindness: Current trends and perspectives. Ellenika Grammata: Athens, pp 65-76 [in Greek]. Translation by A. Hatzistenfanou.
Kennedy, J. M. and Juricevic, I. (2004) Form, projection and pictures for the blind. In Ballesteros, S. and Heller, M. A. (Eds). Touch, blindness and neuroscience. Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia Press, Madrid. (pp. 29-31).
Kennedy, J. M. (2004) The blind draw right on the edge In C. Leahey (Ed.) Catalogue for exhibition of art by the visually impaired: The View From Here: Visual Art by Artists who are Visually Impaired and Blind Los Angeles.
Juricevic, I. and Kennedy, J. M. (2003) Perspective band theory and panoramas. In Studies in Perception and Action , VII (S. Rogers and J. Effken Eds.) Erlbaum Press, Mahwah, N.J.. Kennedy, J. M. and Juricevic, I. (2003) Similar triangles and perspective viewing from afar. In Studies in Perception and Action , VII (S. Rogers and J. Effken Eds.) Erlbaum Press, Mahwah, N.J..
Kennedy. J. M., Juricevic, I. and Bai, J. (2003) Line and borders of surfaces: grouping and foreshortening. In Reconceiving pictorial space. (Hecht, H., Schwartz, R. and Atherton M. Eds.) MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. (p.321-354).
Kennedy, J.M. (2003) What motivates a person who is blind to draw? In E. Axel and N. Levent (Eds.) Art beyond sight: A resource guide to art,creativity and visual impairment. Art Education for the Blind & AFB Press, New York (74-83)
Kennedy, J. M. (2003) Prologue. In E. Axel and N. Levent (Eds.) Art beyond sight: A resource guide to art,creativity and visual impairment. Art Education for the Blind & AFB Press, New York. (p. 23).
Kennedy, J. M., Liu, C. H., Challis, B. H. and Kennedy, V. (2003). Form symbolism across languages: Danish, Slovene and Japanese In C. Zelinsky (Ed.) Text Transfer: Metaphors, Translation and Expert-Lay Communication. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (pp 221-242).
Kennedy, J. M. (2002) Picture this. New Yorker,October 28, p. 12 (letter).
Kennedy, J.M. (2002). Touch and the observer's vantage point. In L. Albertazzi (Ed.) Unfolding perceptual continua Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (Pp. 181-204)
Juricevic, I. and Kennedy, J. M. (2001) Judging visual angles: Deviations towards metric size judgments. In Studies in Perception and Action , VI (Burton, G. A. and Schmidt, R. C. Eds.) Erlbaum Press, Mahwah, N.J. (53-56).
Kennedy, J.M. (2001). Smart geometry! In T. Parks (Ed.) Looking at looking. Sage, London (31-50)
Kennedy, J.M. (2001). A further look: tactics for detecting illusions In T. Parks (Ed.) Looking at looking. Sage, London (107--102)
Kennedy, J.M. (2000) Recognizing outline pictures via touch: Alignment theory. In M.A. Heller (Ed.) Touch, representation and blindness, Oxford (p.67-98).
Kennedy, J.M. and Oddson, B. (1999) Flow fields and curvature: Confusion about the path ahead. In M.A.Grealy and J.A.Thomson (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action V. Erlbaum, Mahwah, N.J.
Kennedy, J.M. and Juricevic, I. (1999) Angular subtense and binocular vision: Worst than worst. In M.A.Grealy and J.A.Thomson (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action V. Erlbaum, Mahwah, N.J.
Kennedy, J.M. (1998) Perception: Consistency and contradiction in the service of realism. Art Bulletin of the National Museum Stockholm, 5, 94-101.
Kennedy, J. M. (1998) Affordance (p.18-19), Gibson, James J. (p.256-257), Haptics (p. 281--283), Picture Perception (p. 486--489), Vision (p. 631--635): In P. Bouissac (Ed.) Encylopedia of Semiotics. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Kennedy, J.M. (1997). Open and closed aspects of depiction: Outline, perspective and rhetoric. Degres, 89-90, 1-20.
Schmuckler, M. and Kennedy, J.M. Eds. (1997) Studies in Perception and Action IV, Erlbaum, Mahwah N.J.
Kennedy, J.M. and Green, C.D. (1997) Inference and pattern in perception theory. In
Schmuckler, M. and Kennedy, J.M. (Eds.) Studies in Perception and Action IV, Erlbaum, Mahwah, N.J.
Kumazawa, I., Kennedy, J.M. and Suzuki, K. (1997) Blur selectively affects the bases for alignment: Position and orientation. In Schmuckler, M. and Kennedy, J.M. (Eds.). Studies in Perception and Action IV, Erlbaum, Mahwah, N.J.
Schmuckler, M. and Kennedy, J.M. (1997) Preface. In Schmuckler, M. and Kennedy, J.M. (Eds.). Studies in Perception and Action IV, Erlbaum, Mahwah, N.J.
Nicholls, A. and Kennedy, J. M. (1997) Subtense, convergence and foreshortening: Effects on middle obliques of cubes. (Abstract). Proceedings of the 9th International conference on Perception and Action, July 20-25, Toronto. (p.113)
Eriksson, Y., Strucel, M. and Kennedy, J.M. (1997) From object to tactile picture (Fraan foeremaal til taktilbild. SIH, Lycksele, Sweden.
Kennedy, J.M. (1997). How the blind draw. Scientific American, 276, 76-81. [Kennedy, J. M. (1997). Comment les aveugles dessinent. Pour la Science. Vol 233, 76-81.]
Kennedy, J.M. (1997) Editorial Metaphor and Symbol, 12, 1-2.
Kennedy, J.M. (1996). Metaphor in tactile pictures for the blind: Using metonymy to evoke classification. In A. Katz and J. Mio (Eds.) Metaphor: Applications and Implications, L. Erlbaum. Mahwah, New Jersey (pp. 215-229).
Liu, C.H. and Kennedy, J.M. (1996). Form and its symbolic meaning. In R. Woodfield (Ed.). Gombrich on Art and Psychology , Manchester: Manchester University Press.(pp. 127-139).
Kennedy, J.M. (1996). Review of M.V. Cox (1993) Children's drawings of the human figure: American Journal of Psychology, 109, 150-157.
Kennedy, J.M., D'Anguilli, D. and Stewart, A. (1995). Passive exploration of tactile pictures is especially effective for children and Optacon users. In J. Ronnberg and E. Hjelmquist Communicative disability: Compensation and development, University of Linkoping Press.
Kennedy, J.M. (1995). Picture perception. In T.A. Sebeok & J. Umiker-Sebeok (Eds.) Advances in Visual Semiotics: Approaches to Semiotics, 118. Mouton de Gruyter, 185-215.
Kennedy, J.M., Nicholls, A. And Desrochers M. (1995). From line to outline. In C. Lange-Küttner and G.V. Thomas Drawing and Looking, Hemel Hempstead: Simon and Schuster, 62-74.
Kennedy, J.M. and Liu, C.H. (1993). Symbolic forms and cognition. Psyke og Logos, Vol. 14, 441-456.
Kennedy, J.M., Pierantoni, R. And Maclaren, R.I. (1994). Flaps in horizontal and vertical wind forces. In Life World -- Sign World, Festschrift for M. Krampen (Eds. C. Dreyer, H. Espe, H. Kalkofen, I. Lempp, P. Pellegrino, R. Posner). Jansen Verlag, Lüneberg, Germany, 557-577.
Kennedy, J.M. (1993). Pictures to touch, Yale Press, New Haven.
Kennedy, J.M., Gabias, P. And Heller, M.A. (1992). Space, haptics and the blind Geoforum, 23, 175-189.
Kennedy, J.M. and Nicholls, A. (1991). Perception of polar and parallel projections of cubes. In P.J. Beek, R.J. Bootsma and P.C.W. van Wieringen (Eds.) Studies in Perception and Action, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1991, 17-20.
Kennedy, J.M. (1991). Illusions and knowing what is real. In P.J. Beek, R.J. Bootsma and P.C.W. van Wieringen (Eds.) Studies in Perception and Action, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 31-33.
Kennedy, J.M. (1991). Analogies and confluence. Semiotic Review of Books, 2.2, 1-2.
Kennedy, J.M. (1991). Flaps in wind forces: decomposition not influencing judgements. Proceedings of the 88th Annual meeting of the North Carolina Academy of Science, Greensboro, North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, 107, 164.
Kennedy, J.M., Gabias, P. And Nicholls, A. (1991).Tactile pictures. In M. Heller and W. Schiff (Eds.) Touch perception L. Erlbaum, 1991, 263-298.
Kennedy, J.M., Gabias, P. And Pierantori (1990). Meaning, presence and absence in pictures. In K. Landwehr (Ed) , Ecological Perception Research, Visual Communication and Aesthetics, Springer Verlag, New York, 1990, 43-56.
Kennedy, J.M. (1974). La percezione pittorica Cortina, Padova, 1988. (Italian translation by G.B. Vicario of A psychology of picture perception).
Kennedy, J.M. (1987). Lo, perception abhors not a contradiction. In S. Petry and G. E. Meyer (Eds.) The perception of illusory contours, Springer Verlag, N.Y., 253-261.
Kennedy, J.M. (1985). Insights into Blindness Encyclopaedia Britannica Medical and Health Annual, 154 165.
Kennedy, J. M. (1985) A place for metaphor in creativity tests Metaphor Research Newsletter, 4, No. 2, 2 4.
Kennedy, J.M. (1985). Syllepse und katachrese in bildern. Zeitschrift fur Semiotik (German translation by M. Krampen). 7, 47 62.
Kennedy, J.M. (1984). Metaphor and Therapy Metaphor Research Newsletter, 4, No. 1, 3 7.
Kennedy, J.M. (1984). How minds use pictures Social Research, 51, 885 904.
Kennedy, J.M. (1984). Psychology and the Arts Ed. D. O'Hare. Review. Journal of Aesthetic Education, Summer,18, 110 113.
Kennedy, J.M. (1984). Vision and Metaphors: Empirical Investigations (Reprints of "Metaphor in pictures" and "Syllepsis, catechresis and pictures"). In Semiotic Circle Monographs Ed. P. Perron, Nov. 4, University of Toronto.
Kennedy, J.M. (1984). The ecological basis of reversibility International Society for Ecological Psychology Newsletter,1, 6 7.
Kennedy, J.M. (1984). Development of drawing in the blind: Principles in sequence and examples of drawings Aids & Appliances Review, 14, 12 15.
Kennedy, J.M. (1983). Meaning based theory of depiction. Art Education, 36, 12 14.
Kennedy, J.M. (1982). Haptic pictures. In W. Schiff and E. Foulke (Eds). A source book on tactual perception. Cambridge University Press.
Kennedy,J.M. (1980). Depiction considered as a representational system. In J. Fisher (Ed.) Perceiving Artworks, Philosophical Monographs, Series 3, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, Pa.
Kennedy, J.M., Richardson and Magee, L.E. (1980). Blind people recognizing and making depictions. In M. Hagen (Ed.) The perception of pictures. Academic Press, N.Y., Vol. 2, 263 303. Including Appendix: The nature of haptics (with B. Richardson and L.E. Magee).
Kennedy, J.M. and Heywood, M. (1980). I see what I feel New Scientist, 85, 386 389. (Reprinted The New Beacon, 64, 85 90).
Kennedy, J.M. (1979). Subjective contours, contrast, and assimilation. In D.F. Fisher and C.F. Nodine (Eds.), Perception and Pictorial Representation. Praeger, N.Y.
Roy, E.A., Kennedy, J.M., Magee, L. and Diewert, G. (1978). Active movement and memory in the receptor and effector functions of the hand. In D.M. Landers and R.W. Christina (Eds.) Psychology of Motor Behavior and Sport. Illinois: Human Kinetics Publishers.
Kennedy, J.M. (1978). Identification in different media. In The Arts and Basic Skills, S. Madeja (Ed.), Cemrel, St. Louis.
Kennedy, J.M., Klein, D. and Magee, L. (1978). Prosthetics of perceptual systems. In E. C. Carterette and M. P. Friedman (Eds.), Handbook of Perception, 10, New York: Academic Press.
Kennedy, J.M. (1978). Haptics, In E. C. Carterette and M. P. Friedman (Eds.), Handbook of Perception, 8, New York: Academic Press.
Kennedy, J.M. and Fox N. (1977). Pictures to see and pictures to touch. In The Arts and Cognition, D. Perkins and B. Leondar (eds.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1977.
Kennedy, J.M. (1976). Attention, brightness and the constructive eye. Vision and Artifact, M. Henle (Ed.), N.Y.: Springer (pp. 36 38).
Kennedy, J.M. (1975). Drawing was discovered, not invented. New Scientist, 67, (No. 965), 523 525.
Kennedy, J.M. (1974). Perception, pictures and the et cetera principle. Perception: Essays in honor of J.J. Gibson, R.B. MacLeod and H. Pick, (Eds.). Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (pp. 209 226).
Kennedy, J.M. (1974). A Psychology of Picture Perception. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
Kennedy, J.M. (1974). Icons and information. In Media and Symbols. National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook, D. Olson (Ed.). Chicago: (pp. 211 240).
Kennedy, J.M. (1974). Perception Unit. In Elements of Psychology, R.
Crutchfield, D. Krech, N. Livson and W.A. Wilson. New York: Knopf (pp.
231 316).
1. Sensory experience
2. Perceptual organization
3. Perceiving the world
Kennedy, J.M. & Juricevic, I. (2005) Esref Armagan and perspective in tactile pictures. Art beyond Sight: Multimodal Approaches to Learning conference, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Museum of Modart Art, NY. October 14 -15th , 2005.
Kennedy, J. M. (2005) Arnheim & force, Gombrich & schema, Gibson & information, Goodman & symbol: last century. Symposium in honour of Arnheim at 100. American Psychological Association meeting, Washington DC, August 18-21.
Juricevic, I. and Kennedy, J. M. (2005) Perspective picture perception
and the ART theory.
nternational Conference on Perception and Action 13.Monterey, CA, July
5-10.
Juricevic, I. and Kennedy, J. M. (2005) Pictures and perspective constancy: A single function characterizes all major theories. International Conference on Computational Vision in Neural and Machine Systems, Centre for Vision Research, York University, North York, CA, June 15-18.
Kennedy, J. M. and Bai, J. (2004) Border elements deter shape-from-shadow via negative polarity, not motion, not color. Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society meeting, Nov 18-21, Minneapolis.
Bai, J. and Kennedy, J. M. (2004) Shape-from-shadow Mooney figure with line border: All its possibilities. Southern Ontario Neuroscience Association conference,Brock University, St. Catherines, May 4th.
Kennedy, J. M. (2004) The blind draw surface edges from their own tactual vantage point (invited address). International conference on Education and Blindness: Current trends and perspectives, Athens, Greece, 6-8 February.
Juricevic, I. and Kennedy, J. M. (2003) Foreshortening and forelengthening: Underestimated much more than perspective predicts. Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society meeting, Nov.6-9, Vancouver.
Kennedy, J. M., Chiappe, D. and Cowley, M. (2003) Metaphors more apt than similes! Conventionality plays minor role? Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society meeting, Nov.6-9, Vancouver.
Kennedy, J.M. (2003) Theory of drawings by the blind. Tactile Research Group meeting, Psychonomics Society, Nov 6, Vancouver
Kennedy, J. M. (2003) How the blind draw (invited address). Conference
on the profoundly
visually handicapped creating 3-D forms, Madrid. January 16-18.
Kennedy, J. M. (2002) Drawings by Tm, a totally blind woman: Individual
and grouped
objects. Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society meeting, Nov. 21-24,
Kansas City.
Kennedy, J.M and Juricevic, I. (2002) Foreshortening and "forelengthening:" Overestimated and underestimated. Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society meeting, Nov. 21- 24, Kansas City.
Kennedy, J. M and Juricevic, I (2002) Form, projection and pictures for
the blind (invited
address). Conference on Touch and Neuroscience, Madrid, October 16-18.
Kennedy J. M. and Juricevic (2002) Optics and haptics: The picture. Paper
presented at the
conference on Multimodality of Human Communication: Theory, Problems and
Applications.University of Toronto, May 3-5. ( Full text on website:
http://www.semioticon.com/virtuals/multimodality2/talks/kennedy_juricevic.htm).
Chiappe, D. and Kennedy, J. M. (2001) Metaphor or simile: apt or conventional? And what changes? Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society meeting, Nov. 15-18, Orlando
Kennedy, J. M. (2001) Parallel projection in drawings from Gaia, a blind girl. Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society meeting, Nov. 15-18, Orlando
Kennedy, J. M. (2001) Projection systems in drawings by the blind. Tactile Research Group meeting, Psychonomics Society, Nov 14, Orlando.
Kennedy, J. M. (2001) Smart pictures: Invisible ties in vision and touch. Arnheim Award invited address. American Psychological Association conference, August, 24-28, San Francisco.
Juricevic, I. and Kennedy, J. M. (2001) Judging visual angles: Deviations towards metric size judgments. International Conference on Perception and Action 11. University of Connecticut, Storrs, Ct., June 24-29.
Kennedy, J. M. and Todorovic, D. (2001) Cognitive variables have no effect on gradient-induced lightness illusions. American Psychological Society conference, June 14-17, Toronto
Bai, J. and Kennedy, J. M. (2001) Shape-from-shadow and binocular vision American Psychological Society conference, June 14-17, Toronto.
Juricevic, I, and Kennedy, J. M. (2001) Visual angle judgments: nonadditivity. Conference on Levels of Perception, York University, North York, CA, June 19-22.
Kennedy, J.M. and Bai, J. (2000) Tactile picture recognition: judgments of fit correlate across groups, produce high confidence. Tactile Research Group meeting, Psychonomics Society, Nov 16, New Orleans.
Chiappe, D. and Kennedy, J. M. (2000) Literal bases for metaphor and simile: Category and similarity claims. Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society meeting, Nov. 17-20, New Orleans.
Kennedy, J.M. (2000) Drawings by blind people with experience in drawing. International conference on art and the blind, Oct 30-31, Bologna
Kennedy, J.M. (2000) Why do blind childen enjoy art? Annual meeting of the Trustees of the American Printing House for the Blind, Oct 13-15, Louisville, Kentucky
Kennedy, J.M, Liu, C.H., Challis, B. and Kennedy, V. (2000) Symbolic form: Danish, Japanese and Slovene. International Society for the Empirical study of Literature meeting July 31-Aug 4, Toronto.
Kennedy, J.M. and Bai, J. (1999) Judgement of fit predicts identification of tactile pictures, recognition memory. Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society meeting, Nov. 18-21, Los Angeles
Cabe, P.A., Abele, P.N. and Kennedy, J.M.(1999) Dominance of binocular depth information over competing kinetic occlusion information. Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society meeting, Nov. 18-21, Los Angeles
Kennedy, J.M.(1999) Haptics and pictures: Past, present and future. Paper presented at the International Conference on Perception and Action, 10, Edinburgh, August 8-13.
Jurivecic, I. and Kennedy, J.M. (1999) Attending to the relations between visual angles: errors for both eyes are attracted by metric-size ratios as angular separation of targets increases. Conference on Vision and Attention, York University, Canada, June 22nd-26th.
Kennedy, J.M. and Bai, J. (1999) Cavanagh and Leclerc shape-from-shadow pictures: do line versions fail because of the polarity of the regions or of the coastline? Conference on Vision and Attention, York University, Canada, June 22nd--26th.
Kennedy, J.M. and Chiappe, D.L. (1998) Are metaphors elliptical similes? Paper presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Dallas, Texas, November 19--22.
Kennedy, J.M. (1998) Esref's wheels and depictions of motion in static pictures. Paper presented at the Tactile Research Group meeting,Dallas, Texas, November 18th.
Kennedy, J.M. (1998) Tactile pictures: what enables recognition, recall and good errors? Second Swedish symposium on Multimodal Communication, Lund, October 16--17.
Kennedy, J.M. (1998). Perception: Consistency and contradiction in the service of realism. Invited address to the Learning in Museums Symposium, National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden, June 11-12
Kennedy, J.M. (1998). Explaining the ability to recognize pictures via touch: Axis theory. Invited address to conference on Representation and Blindness, San Marino, May 22-23.
Kennedy, J.M. (1997). When is a metaphor stronger than a simile? Conference on Cognitive Theories of Intertextuality, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Dec. 30-31.
Kennedy, J.M. (1997) What makes a metaphor stronger than a simile? Researching and Applying Metaphor II Conference. Copenhagen, May 29-31.
Kennedy, J.M. and D'Angiulli, A. (1997) Children exploring passively recognize as many tactile pictures as adults. Society for Research in Child Development meeting, Washington, D.C., April 3-6.
Kennedy, J.M. and Eriksson, Y. (1997) Blind children recognizing pictures and making drawings: Origins of pictorial abilities. College Art Association 85th Annual Meeting, February 12-15, New York.
Steven L. Funk, John M. Kennedy, and Itsuo Kumazawa (1997) Features of Figure Ground Separation: Contours, Axes, Corners, and Junctions. Paper presented at the '2nd International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience (ICCIN2)', part of the 'Joint Conference of Information Science (JCIS'97)', Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, March 1 5.
Kennedy, J.M. (1996) Theory of tactile pictures for the blind. Conference on Pictures for the Disabled, Stockholm, December 4th.
Kennedy, J.M. and Chiappe, D. (1996) Metaphors involve more features than similes. Psychonomics Society, Nov. 1-3, Chicago
Steven L. Funk, Itsuo Kumazawa and John M. Kennedy (1996) The Role of Non Linear Receptive Fields in Shift Invariant Feature Extraction. Poster Presented at the 'Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding 96 (MIRU 96)' Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan, July 17 19.
Miyoshi, H. and Kennedy, J.M. (1995) Combining illusions: A perfect additivity model fits imperfect-additivity results. Psychonomics Society meeting, Nov. 10-12, Los Angeles.
D'Anguilli, A., Kennedy, J.M. and Heller, M.A. (1995) Tactile picture recognition by blind and sighted children. Tactile Perception Research Group, Psychonomics Society meeting, Nov. 9, Los Angeles.
Kennedy, J.M. (1995). Where is the information in a picture or a symbol? Invited address, Division 10, American Psychological Association, August 11-15, New York.
Kennedy, J.M. (1995) Metaphor in pictures: Metonymy evokes classification American Psychological Association, August 11-15, New York.
Kennedy, J.M., Mirabella, G. and Navaratnam, A. (1995) Distal touch: Space, haptics and orientation. In Symposium on Haptic Information for Spatial Perception. International Conference on Perception and Action, July 9-14, Marseille.
Kennedy, J.M. and Funk, S. (1995) Outline perception: Three theories of axes. International Conference on Visual Coding, York University, June 20-24.
Kumazawa, I., Kennedy, J.M., Grinnell, P. (1995) Alignment: Two models tested with an apparent motion task. International Conference on Visual Coding, York University, June 20-24.
Kennedy, J.M. and Mirabella, G. (1994). Haptic objects participate in 3-D spatial transformations (with G. Mirabella) Tactile research group, Psychonomics Society meeting, St. Louis, MO, November 10.
Kennedy, J.M., Liu, C.H.. and Miyoshi, H. (1994). Accretion/Deletion: Shafts of illumination through dusty air, Psychonomics Society meeting, St. Louis, MO; November 11-13.
Kennedy, J.M. (1994). Figure-ground, information and symbolism. Basic Problems in Visual Communication Conference, Copenhagen University, September 30 - October 2.
Vervaeke, J. and Kennedy, J.M. (1994). Metaphors in language and thought: falsification and multiple meanings American Psychological Association meeting, August 12-15, Los Angeles.
Kennedy, V.R. and Kennedy, J.M. (1994). Symbolism can be extended by style. American Psychological Association meeting, L.A., August 12-15.
Nicholls, A. and Kennedy, J.M. (1994). Short middle obliques in drawings of cubes by children aged 6-10. International Association for Empirical Aesthetics meeting, Montreal, August 4-5.
Berntsen, D. and Kennedy, J.M. (1994). Contradiction conveys attitudes -- in metaphor, irony, understatement and tautology. Conference on the Psychology of Literature, July 1-4, Budapest, Hungary.
Kennedy, J.M. (1994). Pictures, metaphors, analogies and symbols. Conference on Cognitive Linguistics and Semiotics, Aarhus University Institute for Semiotics, June 1-5.
Berntsen, D. and Kennedy, J.M. (1994). Contradiction conveys attitudes -- Ditlevsen and alienation. Conference on Cognitive Linguistics and Semiotics, Aarhus University Institute for Semiotics, June 1-5.
Heller, M. A. and Kennedy, J.M. (1993). Production and interpretation of pictures of houses by blind people. Psychonomics Society meeting, Washington, D.C., November 5-7.
Kennedy, J.M. (1993). Theories of touch and theories of pictures. Presidential address, Division 10, Psychology and the Arts, American Psychological Association meeting, Toronto, August 20-24.
Kennedy, J.M. and Kennedy, V.R. (1993). Realism as a basis for reinterpretation in visual metaphor. Word and Image Conference, Ottawa, August 16-20.
Kennedy, J.M., Liu, C.H. and Reith, E. (1993). Are illusory effects additive? Or just affirmative? 7th International Conference on Event Perception and Action, University of British Columbia, August 8-13.
Kennedy, J.M. (1993). Illusions appearance and reality. 7th International Conference on Event Perception and Action, University of British Columbia, August 8-13.
Kennedy, J.M. and Eriksson, Y. (1993). Profiles and orientation of tactile pictures. European Society for Applied Psychology, Helsinki, July 3-6.
Kennedy, J.M. and Kulik, M. (1992). Accretion and deletion in illuminated, textured environments. International conference on flow fields and event perception. York University, June 11-12.
Vervaeke, J., Green, C.D. and Kennedy, J.M. (1993). Women, fire and dangerous theories: A critique of Lakoff's theory of categorization. Paper presented at the meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, 27-29 May.
Kennedy, J.M. (1993). Review of E.H. Spitz Image and insight, Columbia University Press, 1991. In Journal of Aesthetic Education.
Kennedy, J.M. and Nicholls, A. (1992). Perspective robustness and optical infinity (with A. Nicholls). Canadian Psychological Association Meeting, Quebec City, June 13-17.
Nicholls, A. and Kennedy, J.M. (1992). Foreshortening and the perception of parallel projections. Canadian Society for Brain and Behavioural Sciences meeting, Quebec City, June 11-12.
Kennedy, J. M. (1991). Review of G. Lakoff and M. Turner (1989) More than cool reason: a field guide to poetic metaphor, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. In Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 18, 581-583.
Kennedy, J.M. , Green, C.D., Nicholls, A. and Liu, C.H. (1991). Illusions and knowing what is real. Conference on Event Perception and Action, Amsterdam, Aug. 25-30.
Nicholls, A. and Kennedy, J.M. (1990). Development of drawing: Adult's and children's drawings of cubes. Canadian Psychological Association meeting, Ottawa, May 31-June 3.
Kennedy, J.M., Pierantoni, R. and MacLaren, R.I. (1989). Flaps in horizontal and vertical wind forces Psychonomic Society conference, Atlanta, November 17-19.
Heller, M..A. and Kennedy, J.M. (1989). Perspective taking, pictures and the blind Psychonomic Society conference, Atlanta, November 17-19th.
Pierantoni, R., Kennedy, J. M. and Gabias P. (1989). Metaphor, rolling balls and static depiction 1st European Congress of Psychology, Amsterdam, July 2-7.
Kennedy, J.M. (1988). Review of M.J. Parsons How we understand art! A cognitive developmental account of aesthetic experience. Contemporary Psychology, 33, 1063 4, 1988. Kennedy, J.M. Review of M. Kubovy The Psychology of Perspective and Renaissance Art. Contemporary Psychology, 33, 336 7.
Kennedy, J.M. (1988). Outline and shape from shading. The little lines that can't. Psychonomic Society Conference, Chicago, November 10 12.
Kennedy, J.M. (1988). Octaves in touch. Pre conference meeting on touch perception. Psychonomic Society, Chicago, November 9.
Kennedy, J.M. (1987). Review of R. Arnheim New essays on the Psychology of Art. Contemporary Psychology, 32, 952 4.
Kennedy, J.M. (1987). Outline, positives and negatives: which least shows objects in chiaroscuro? Psychonomic Society Conference, Seattle, November 6 8, 1987.
Kennedy, J.M. Pierantoni, R. and Gabias P. (1987). Metaphor, motion and static depiction. Pre-conference meeting on touch perception, Psychonomic Society, Seattle, November 5.
Kennedy, J.M. Drawings of cubes: which are preferred? Is symmetry important? Is convergence important? (with A. Nicholls) International Society for Ecological Psychology Conference, Hartford Ct., October 17, 1987.
Kennedy, J.M. (1987). A Gibsonian picture theory. Invited address. Symposium on ecological theory of perception and representation, Bonn, October 9 10.
Kennedy, J.M. , Pierantoni, R. And MacLaren, R.I. (1987). Supporting structures in horizontal and vertical wind forces. Fourth International Event Perception Conference, Trieste, August 24 27.
Kennedy, J.M. (1987). Designs mean things. Invited address to mark the 75th Anniversary of the Royal Ontario Museum, and the Exhibition "The Eye of the Beholder", April 12.
Kennedy, J.M. (1987). Metaphor in cockpit instrumental design. Klein Associates, Yellow Springs, Ohio, January 14, 1987.
Kennedy, J.M. and Portal, A. (1986). Dispelling illusions by changing the observer's vantage point Psychonomic Society Conference, New Orleans, November 13 15.
Pierantoni, R. and Kennedy, J.M. (1986). Flaps, arcs and spokes: Motion and force International Society for Ecological Psychology, Philadelphia, October, 1986.
Mills, R.S.L. and Kennedy, J.M. (1986). Radiological diagnosis and the development of perceptual expertise: What does contemporary research reveal? International Society for Ecological Psychology Conference, Chicago, May.
Simpson, W. A. and Kennedy, J.M. (1986). Pure rotations impair recovery of depth from optic flow International Society for Ecological Psychology Conference, Chicago, May.
Kennedy, J.M. and Portal, A. (1986). Illusions dispelled by viewing from glancing angles International Society for Ecological Psychology Conference, Chicago, May.
Gabias, P. and Kennedy, J.M. (1986). Graphic texture indicates hardness to the blind. Eastern Psychological Association Conference, New York, April
Kennedy, J.M. (1985). Epistemology of subjective contours, Adelphi University, November
Kennedy, J.M., Sette, G. and Whitby, R. (1985). Direct and indirect pictorial advertisements: Preference and memory effects. International Society for Ecological Psychology Conference, Hartford, October.
Mills, R.S.L. and Kennedy, J.M. (1985). Perception in the abyssal depths of the sea. International Society for Ecological Psychology Conference, Hartford, October.
Kennedy, J.M. (1984). Haptic pictures: How blind people judge their effectiveness & sophistication, American Psychological Association Conference, Toronto, August.
Kennedy, J.M. (1983). Drawings by the blind: A mentalist, meaning based theory. International Conference on Psychology and the Arts: British Psychological Society, Cardiff, September.
Kennedy, J.M. (1983). Speed lines as metaphoric depictions. Second International Conference on Event Perception, Nashville, June.
Kennedy, J.M. and Domander, R. (1983). Motor empathy and the perception of facial expression. Canadian Psychological Association conference, Winnipeg, June.
Kennedy, J.M. and Domander R. (1982). Pictorial foreground background reversal reduces tactual recognition by the blind. Psychonomics Society conference, Minneapolis, November.
Kennedy, J.M. and Domander, R. (1981). Blind people depicting wind, noise, and smell with devices including metaphors Psychonomic Society conference, November.
Kennedy, J.M. (1980). The images of the blind. American Psychological Association conference, Montreal, September.
Kennedy, J.M. (1980). The meaning based theory of perception applied to visual puns. International Association of Empirical Aesthetics VIIth International Colloquium, Montreal, August.
Kennedy, J.M. (1980). Visible order: A review of E. Gombrich's "The sense of order". Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism , Summer, 453 457.
Kennedy, J.M. (1980). Limitations and implications of practical uses of pictorial communication with the blind. Ontario Psychological Association, Toronto, February.
Kennedy, J.M. (1979). Perspective principles and the blind. Psychonomic Society conference, Phoenix, Arizona, November.
Kennedy, J.M. and Ware C. (1978). The phenomenon of subjective contours (Cont.) Leonardo, 11, 348.
Kennedy, J.M. , Heywood, M.A. and Garboll, B. (1978). Pictorial representation of movement in blind and deaf subjects Psychonomic Science Conference, November.
Kennedy, J.M. (1980). Pictures and the blind (Symposium paper) American Psychological Association conference, August 1978. Reprinted Journal of the University Film Association, 32, 11 21.
Kennedy, J.M. and Ware, C. (1978). Attention, brightness contrast and brightness assimilation Canadian Psychological Association Conference, June.
Kennedy, J.M. (1977). Picture perception: Entry in The National Encyclopedia
of Neurology, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology, B. Wolman (General
Ed.) and I. Rock (Exp. Psych. Ed.). N.Y., pp. 403 406.
Kennedy, J.M. (1977). Review of Handbook of Perception, Vol. V: Seeing.
E. C. Carterette and M. P. Friedman (Eds.). N.Y.: Academic Press, 1975,
In Leonardo, 10, 335.
Kennedy, J.M. (1977). Benson's comments on picture perception as analyzed
by J. M. Kennedy (Letter) Leonardo, 10, 87.
Kennedy, J.M. (1977). Response to Deregowski's reply (Letter), Leonardo,
10, 86 87.
Kennedy, J.M., Ware, C. And Magnan-Smith, J. (1977). Illusory contours are perceived by children and are judged to be unreal. Canadian Psychological Association Conference, Vancouver.
Kennedy, J.M. (1977). Subjective contours in three dimensional objects. Psychonomic Science Conference, Washington.
Roy, E., Kennedy, J.M., Magee, L.E. and Diwert, G.L. (1977). Receptor and effector functions of the hand: Is efference necessary? National Association for Sports and Physical Activity Conference, Ithaca, N.Y., 1977.
Kennedy, J.M. and Campbell, J. (1976). Figure ground coding of raised line tactile displays. Canadian Psychological Association Conference, Toronto.
Kennedy, J.M. and Magee, L.E. (1976). Contact, kinaesthesis and guidance in recognition of haptic pictures. Canadian Psychological Association Conference, Toronto.
Kennedy, J.M. and Klein, D. (1976). Modalities and ways of processing haptically obtained information Canadian Psychological Association Conference, Toronto.
Kennedy, J.M. (1976). Discussion: Symposium on haptics. Canadian Psychological Association Conference, Toronto.
Kennedy, J.M. (1976). Studies on haptic pictures. Conference on picture perception, University of Minnesota.
Kennedy, J.M., Kambek, M. , Rovet, J. and Galligan, R. (1975). Six to eight year olds thinking about language problems involving metaphysical issues: Nullity, privileged experience and the relative status of message and messenger. Project Zero Conference, Harvard.
Kennedy, J.M. (1975). On the other hand: Reply to R. Yin. Contemporary Psychology, 20, 598 599 (Letter).
Kennedy, J.M. (1975). Pattern processing: A further rationalization of sight (Letter). Leonardo, 8, 182.
Kennedy, J.M. (1974). The stage beyond formal operations. Fifth Annual Conference on Structural Learning, University of Pennsylvania. Proceedings (ed., J. Scandura). Office of Naval Research, Springfield, Virginia (pp. 160 180).
Kennedy, J.M. Chattaway, L.D. and Chattaway, E. (1974). Restoration and selection processes in listening to sentences with phonemes deleted. Canadian Acoustical Association, Edmonton.
Kennedy, J.M. (1974). Recognition of haptic pictures by blind adolescents. Sixth Annual Conference on Visual Literacy, Toronto.
Kennedy, J.M. (1974). Speaking my mind: On the relationship between thought and language. Canadian Psychological Association Conference, Windsor.
Kennedy, J.M. (1974). Are pictures inherently more memorable than words? Institute on Psychology and Telecommunications, Canadian Psychological Association, Windsor.
Kennedy, J.M. (1974). Review of H. Gardner's The Arts and Human Development. In Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Fall, 1974, 23, 149 154.
Kennedy, J.M. (1973). The creatives are coming! Review of C. Gowan's "Development of the Creative Individual." Contemporary Psychology, 18, 285 286.
Kennedy, J.M. (1973). Review of J. H. Heaton's "The Eye: Phenomenology and psychology of function and disorder". In Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Fall.
Kennedy, J.M. and Kennedy, E. (1972). Translation of Rubin's Figure and Ground. Supported by Milton Fund (Harvard) and U.S. Navy Grant, Cornell, Private circulation.
Kennedy, J.M. and Fox, N. and O'Grady, K. (1972). Can "haptic pictures" help the blind see? Harvard Graduate School of Education Bulletin, 16, 22 23.
Kennedy, J.M. and Brust, R.(1972). Reversible figures and flexibility of picture perception. International conference on Cognition and the Arts, Perkins School, Mass.
Kennedy, J.M. (1972). On geometry and perceiving pictures. Leonardo, 5, p. 285 286 (Letter).
Kennedy, J.M. (1971). Review of M. H. Pirenne's "Art, Optics and Photography" Leonardo, 4, 397.
Kennedy, J. M. (1971). Illustrations, Psychology Today, revised text. C.R.M. Publications (invited memorandum)
Kennedy, J.M. and Mueller, E. (1970). Making babies play groups work. Early Times.
Kennedy, J.M. (1970). Pictorial perception. Conference on Ecological Optics, Cornell.
Kennedy, J.M. (1970). Outlines and Shadows. American Psychological Association Conference, Miami.
Kennedy, J.M. (1970). Information in pictures. Conference on Structural Learning, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Kennedy, J.M. (1969). Lines in pictures: are they one sided? Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference.
Kennedy, J.M. (1968). Prismatic adaptation and the remembered location of targets. Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference.
Gibson, J.J., Kennedy, J. M. and Toleno, T.L. (1967). A study of the stick in water illusion with children. Project Literacy Reports,8, 116 124.
Kennedy, J.M. (1966). Visual adaptation and perceptual information. M.Sc. Thesis, Queen's University, Belfast.
Kennedy, J.M. (1966). Meditation: an inquiry. Interest. Belfast, 6, 27 31.
Kennedy, J.M. (1965). The effect of perceptual anomalies on adaptations to displaced vision. B.Sc. Thesis, Queen's University, Belfast.
Kennedy, J.M. (1964). Psychology and Theology, Paper presented to the Psychology Society, Queen's University, Belfast.
Tactile pictures: drawings by practiced individuals, Conference on Blind Children: Teaching, Understanding and Learning. Stockholm, November 10-12th 2004
Perspective pictures, vision and touch: Renaissance geometry and convergence. September, Ebbinghaus (22nd), Cognition and Perception (23rd), Semiotics (24th), October: Explorations in Science (22nd), University of Toronto. With Igor Juricevic.
Pictures: theory of outline, theory of perspective and theory of drawing in the blind and sighted. Bornholm (April 24th) and Roskilde (April 27, 28th), Denmark, 2004
Tactile pictures and the blind. Conference on education of the blind and visually impaired students, Athens, February 6-8th 2004
Tactile pictures and the blind York University, March 21st 2003
Tactile pictures and the blind University of Minnesota March, 13th 2003
Tactile pictures and the blind 5: Mohawk College Program on Orientation and Mobility, March 7th, 2003
Tactile pictures and the blind 4: Mohawk College Program on Orientation and Mobility, February 19th, 2002
Tactile pictures and the blind 3: Mohawk College Program on Orientation and Mobility, March 2, 2001
Representational universals, vision and touch. Invited address in the series "Three lectures on the cultural history of the senses" Concordia University Lonergan College, March 2 2000
Tactile pictures and the blind 2: Mohawk College Program on Orientation and Mobility, March 10, 2000
Tactile pictures and motion depiction, Cognition and perception, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Jan 27, 2000.
Representational universals:University of Buffalo, March 24, 1999.
Tactile pictures and the blind: Mohawk College Program on Orientation and Mobility, Jan 12, 1999.
Perception, information and pictures by the blind: Gothenburg University, September 25, 1998.
Blind children drawing: Monash University October 22, 1997, Macquarie University, October 24, Deakin University, October 31.
Metaphor and Cognition, Monash University, October 21, 1997.
Pictures and the blind. Lighthouse for the blind, New York, February 14, 1997, New York.
Blind children recognizing pictures. University of Uppsala, December 5, 1996.
Pictures, perception, cognition and the blind. (four lectures) University of Linkoping, November 27-December 3, 1996.
Pictures and the blind. Royal Canadian Institute, Toronto, October 30, 1994.
Haptics and recognition on second presentation. University of Linkoping, 19-21 May, 1995.
Edgar Rubin and the argument from illusion. Aarhus University, 28 October, 1994.
Are illusions additive? UNED, National University, Madrid, 30 October, 1994.
Why outline drawings make sense to the sightless and the sighted. Royal Canadian Institute, October 30, 1994.
Combining illusions. Aarhus University, Denmark, Centre for Semiotic Research, September 28, 1994; UNED, Madrid, September 30, 1994.
Pictures and the blind. Roskilde University, Denmark, September 26, 1994.
Figure-ground from Rubin, Johansen & Hochberg to the present. Faculty Research Forum (FFF), Copenhagen University, 15 Oct., 1993.
Diderot, Katz and pictures for the blind. Invited lecture in Symposium on Object Representation in Vision and Touch, in honour of the 20th Anniversary of the Open University, Madrid, Spain, 17-19 May, 1993.
Pictures understood by the blind. Lecture in honour of the 100th Anniversary of the Swedish Braille Library, Stockholm, Dec. 3, 1992.
Pictures to touch: A summary. Semiotic Circle, Toronto, Nov. 30, 1991.
Diderot's Letter on the Blind anticipates recent developments. Colloquium in honour of V.V. Ivanov, March 8, 1991, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto.
Theory of touch and theory of pictures. Pembroke College, North Carolina, March 25 and 26, 1991.
Perspective pictures and the blind. National Gallery, Ottawa (Sponsored by the Ontario Educators of the Visually Handicapped) May 5, 1990.
Pictures to see and pictures to touch. Address to Divisions 1, 3 and 10 of the American Psychological
Association meeting at New Orleans, August 13, 1989.
Outlines and drawing development in the blind. Symposium on Pictures and the Blind. Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y. (June 14); National Federation of the Blind, Baltimore (June 15), 1989.
The blind and pictures. Goethe Institute and University of Michigan Departments of Psychology and History of Art, March 1988.
The blind and pictures. Hart House Senior Members Dinner, October 28,
1987.
Outline, perspective and metaphor. German Semiotic Society Conference,
Essen, October 5 7, 1987.
Theory of pictures. Michigan State University, Canadian Lecturers on Pictures Series, May 26, 1987.
The blind: which of their perceptual abilities and aids permit significant mobility? Fourth International Conference on mobility and transport for elderly and disabled persons Plenary session with Association for Biomedical Engineering, Vancouver, July, 1986.
Blind people and perception. Science Teachers Association of Ontario Conference, November, 1986.
Tactual pictures and the blind. New York State Organization of the Blind Conference, Syracuse, November, 1986.
Pictures and the blind. Address in honour of R. Arnheim, Sarah Lawrence, N.Y., October, 1985.
Art history, perception and pictures by the blind, Art History Association of Great Britain, London, April, 1985.
Arnheim, Gestalt theory and pictures. National Art Education Conference, Champaign Urbana, October, 1984.
Aesthetics, haptics and pictures. 2nd Annual Conference on Applied Psychology, Adelphi University, October, 1983.
Perception, epistemology and depiction. Rochester Institute of Technology Conference on the Perception of Pictures, October 1983.
Pictorial displays and the blind: Elements, patterns and Metaphors. First International Symposium on Maps and Graphics for the Visually Handicapped: Association of American Geographers, Washington, March, 1983.
Syllepsis and catachresis in pictures Third International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies), Toronto, June, 1982.
Drawings by blind people and a mentalist theory of depiction. Toronto Semiotic Circle meeting, November, 1981.
The psychology of depiction. American Medical Illustrators Conference, Toronto, August, 1981.
Blind people understanding pictures. Conference on the Laws of Form, Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, Florence, December, 1980.
What is to pictures as Braille is to words? National Braille Association meeting, keynote address, Toronto, October, 1980.
Orientation and pictorial representation by the blind. Conference on orientation and mobility. Canadian National Institute for the Blind, Toronto, May, 1981.
Element, configuration and metaphor in depiction. Proceedings of the Concordia University Symposium on Perception, Cognition and Representation. Eds. J. Victoria and E. Sacca. Concordia, Montreal, 1979.
Some research methods in picture perception. Proceedings of the Concordia University Symposium on Perception, Cognition and Representation. Eds. J. Victoria and E. Sacca. Concordia, Montreal, 1979.
Subjective contours theories and demonstrations, U.S. Army Conference on pictures and perception, Philadelphia Museum of Art, April, 1977.
Rules, systems and experience in pictorial communication. The Epistemic Status of Human Emotions Symposium, American Association for the Advancement of Science Denver, 1977.
Pictures by and for the blind. Advances in the psychophysical and visual aspects of image evaluation. Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers Conference Rochester, 1977.
Images of Science. Paradigms of the Present Symposium, Scarborough College, 1977.
Outline drawings: Evidence on three theories. In Visual Perception Visual Art. P. Kelly and R. Menze (Eds.), National Endowment for the Arts Symposium, University of Western Carolina. Cullowhee, N.C.: 1976 (pp. 12 18, 25 29).
Identification and different media: A structural analysis. Toronto Faculty Aesthetics Study Group, 1976.
Comments on J. J. Gibson's analysis of affordances in architectural layouts. American Society for Aesthetics Meeting, Toronto, 1976.
Pictorial metaphor: A theory of movement indicators in static pictures. Information through Pictures Symposium. Swarthmore College, 1976.
Rubin's Legacy and a Gibsonian reinterpretation of figure and ground. (Symposium on brightness and space). International Congress of Psychology, 1972, Tokyo, Japan.
The influence of paradigms on concepts in psychology. (Symposium on psychology
and Society). International Congress of Psychology, 1972, Tokyo, Japan.
(Proceedings, Edited T. Shirai, p. 18 22).
Children in playgroups. Invited article, Early Years, Fall, 1972.
Status: A concept relevant to American and N. Ireland political problems. Invited address: Tompkins County Psychologists Association, 1969.
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