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Ronald Growney

Ronald Growney

Title: Professor Emeritus

Departmental Program: Experimental: Ecological

E-mail: ronald.growney@uconn.edu

Psychology Office Phone: (860) 486-4907

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

Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail

 

Research Interests:

  • Visual perception.
  • Visual psychophysics.
  • Information in optic flow for visual perception.

Undergraduate courses:

  • Sensation and Perception

Graduate courses:

  • Sensation/Perception I.
  • Selected Topics in Visual Perception

Representative Publications:

  • Kim, N., Turvey, M. T., & Growney, R. (1996). Wayfinding and the sampling of optical flow by eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 22, 1314-13-19.
  • Kim, N., Growney, R., & Turvey, M. T. (1996). Optical flow not retinal flow is the basis of wayfinding by foot. Journal of Experimental Psychologgy: Human Perception and Performance, 22, 1279-1288.
  • Growney, R., & Neri, D. (1986). The appearance of the Cornsweet illusion: Measures of perceived contrast and eveness of brightness. Perception and Psychophysics, 39, 81-86.