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Claudia Carello

Claudia Carello

Title: Professor


Departmental Program: Perception, Action, Cognition: Ecological

E-mail: claudia.carello@uconn.edu
Office Phone: (860) 486-3529
Lab Phone: (860) 486-2078

Web site: Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action (CESPA)

Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020

Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail

Research Interests:

  • Dynamic touch.
  • Ecological acoustics.
  • Implications of ecological psychology for rehabilitation.
  • Phonological constraints on word recognition.

Undergraduate courses:

  • Sensation & Perception
  • Sensation & Perception Laboratory
  • General Psychology I.

Representative Publications:

  • Carello, C., Anderson, K. L., & Peck, A. (1998). Perception of object length by sound. Psychological Science, 9, 211-214.
  • Carello, C., Thuot, S., & Turvey, M. T. (2000). Aging and the perception of a racket's sweet spot. Human Movement Science, 19, 28-41.
  • Carello, C., LeVasseur, V., M., & Schmidt, R. C. (2002). Movement sequencing and phonological fluency in (putatively) nonimpaired readers. Psychological Science, 13, 376-380.
  • Wagman, J., & Carello, C. (2003). Haptically creating affordances: Grasping so as to create functional objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 9, 175-186.
  • Carello, C. (2004). Perceiving affordances by dynamic touch: hints from the control of movement. Ecological Psychology, 16, 31-36.
  • Carello, C., & Turvey, M. T. (2004). Physics and psychology of the muscle sense. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, 25-28.
  • Carello, C. & Moreno, M. (2005). Why nonlinear methods? In M. A. Riley & G. Van Orden (Eds). Tutorials in contemporary nonlinear methods for the behavioral sciences (pp. 1-25). [web book at NSF]
  • Carello, C., Kinsella-Shaw, J. M., Amazeen, E. L., & Turvey, M. T. (2006). Peripheral neuropathy and object length perception by effortful (dynamic) touch: A case study. Neuroscience Letters, 405, 159-163.

Other:

  • Director of the Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action..
  • Board of Directors , Haskins Laboratories (New Haven, CT).