McBeath, M.K.  Catching ground balls: Optical control heuristics used by humans and robots support a unified fielder theory.  Poster presented at the 3rd Annual Vision Sciences Society Meeting (VSS), Orlando, FL, May 2003.

McBeath, M.K. & Addie, J.D.  A Reverse Ventriloquist Effect: Auditory Capture of Moving Visual Stimuli.  Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL, November 2001.

McBeath, M.K.  Navigational Principles used by Baseball Outfielders.  Invited Colloquium presented at University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ,  September, 1999.

McBeath, M.K.  Findings with the Human Gyro: Misperception of Body Tilt.  Invited talk presented at the Interval Corporation Changling Seminar Series, Palo Alto, CA, July 1999.

Scharine, A.A. & McBeath, M.K.  The Coupling of Changes in Intensity and Frequency in Music and Speech.  Paper presented at the 79th Annual Convention of the Western Psychological Association (WPA), Los Angeles, CA, April, 1999.

Takarae, Y, Melamed, L.E., & McBeath, M.K.  Two Separate Systems for the Perception of Form for the Dynamic Occlusion: The roles of the Magnocellular and Parvocellular Systems in Form Perception.  Paper presented at the 5th Annual Object Perception and Memory Conference (OPAM), Dallas, TX,  November 1998.

Yoder, S.R. & McBeath, M.K.  A Toroidal Model for Simple Melodies.  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society (APS), Washington, DC, May 1998.

McBeath, M.K. Natural Regularities and Invariants used to Perceive Object Orientation.  Invited Colloquium, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, April, 1998.

McBeath, M.K. & Neuhoff, J.G. Auditory Pitch Influenced Dramatically by Dynamic Intensity Change. Paper presented at the 133rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Penn State University, State College, PA, June 1997.

McBeath, M.K. & Lewis, C. Visual Bias for Apparent Motion in Depth in a Virtual Environment. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Ft. Lauderdale, FL, May 1997.

McBeath, M.K. Navigational Principles used by Baseball Players. Paper presented at the 9th Annual Kent Forum: Spatial Navigational principles used by Humans, Animals, and Machines. Kent, OH, April 1997.

Chambers, K.W., McBeath, M.K., Schiano, D.J. & Metz, E.G. Viewers preferentially attend to the tops of figures. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Ft. Lauderdale, FL, May 1996.

McBeath, M.K. & Shaffer, D.M. Baseball outfielders maintain a linear optical trajectory longer than optical acceleration cancellation when pursuing uncatchable fly balls. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Ft. Lauderdale, FL, May 1996. 

McBeath, M.K. Using virtual environments to study perceptual invariants in navigational tasks. Invited talk presented at the Conference on Synthetic Environments, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, January 1996.

Chambers, K.W. & McBeath, M.K. Bias to interpret Three Dimensional Objects as Aligned with Canonical Axes in Depth. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Ft. Lauderdale, FL, May 1995.

McBeath, M.K. & Lane, S.M. Judgments of Tennis Serve Location Systematically Vary with Vantage Angle and Ball Speed. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Ft. Lauderdale, FL, May 1995. 

McBeath, M.K. How Baseball Players Figure Out Where the Ball is Going. Invited Colloquium presented at the Miami University Department of Psychology Colloquium Series, Miami, OH, January 1995.

Schiano, D.J., McBeath, M.K., and Bruner, K.W. Orientation Constraining Heuristics for Interpreting Figures as 3-D Objects. Paper presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St Louis, MO, November 1994. 

McBeath, M.K., Shaffer, D.M., & Kaiser, M.K. Baseball Outfielders Catch Fly Balls by Canceling Optical Curvature, Not Optical Acceleration. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Sarasota, FL, May 1994. 

McBeath, M.K., Bruner, K.W., & Schiano, D.J. The influence of Symmetry and Stimulus Complexity on Commonality of Interpretations of Indeterminate Shapes. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May 1994. 

McBeath, M.K. Perceptual Biases in the Display of Visual Motion: Why does Lightning Appear to Travel Down and Rising Fastballs Up? Invited Banquet Address presented at the Annual Meeting of the Ohio Section of the American Physical Society, Kent, OH, May 1993. 

McBeath, M.K. The Display of Three-Dimensional Motion in Virtual Space. Invited talk presented at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium Series, Kent State University, Kent, OH, February 1993. 

McBeath, M.K., Neuhoff, J.G., & Schiano, D.J. Familiar Suspended Objects Appear Smaller than Actual Independent of Viewing Distance. Poster presented at the 5th Annual Convention of American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL, June 1993.

McBeath, M.K. The Basketball Hoop Illusion. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St Louis, MO, November 1992. 

McBeath, M.K. & Kaiser, M.K. Visual bias for gravitationally downward motion. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Sarasota, FL, May 1992. 

McBeath, M.K. The illusion of the rising fastball and the stop-and-drop sinkerball: Consequences of pitch speed misestimation. Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Convention of the Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR, April-May 1992. 

McBeath, M.K. & Schiano, D.J. Assumption of 3-D bilateral symmetry constrains orientation and interpretation of indeterminate shapes. Poster presented at the Human Factors Society 35th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September, 1991. 

McBeath, M.K. Evidence for constancy of velocity of apparent motion. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Sarasota, FL, April-May, 1991. 

McBeath, M.K. Geometric illusion bends the path of apparent motion. Paper presented at the 71st Annual Convention of the Western Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA, April, 1991.

McBeath, M.K. The effect of object shape on path of apparent motion. Paper presented at the 70th Annual Convention of the Western Psychological Association, Los Angeles, CA, April 1990.

McBeath, M.K. Comparison of four models that describe path of apparent motion. Paper presented at the 70th annual convention of the Western Psychological Association, Los Angeles, CA, April 1990.

McBeath, M.K. The effect of interstimulus interval on the path of apparent motion. Poster presented at the 68th Annual Convention of the Western Psychological Association, Burlingame, CA, April, 1988.