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Bruce A. Kay

Bruce A. Kay

Title: Assistant Professor
Departmental Program: Perception, Action, Cognition: Ecological
E-mail: bruce.kay@uconn.edu
Office: BOUS 127
Office Phone: (860) 486-4907
Website: 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:

  • Human motor control & coordination
  • Nonlinear dynamical modeling
  • Nonlinear time-series analysis
  • Virtual reality

Undergraduate courses:

  • Principals of Research in Psychology
  • Sensation & Perception

Graduate courses:

  • Nonlinear Dynamics for the Behavioral Sciences I,
  • II

Representative Publications:

  • Kay, B.A., & Warren, W.H. Jr. (2001). Coupling of posture and gait: Mode locking and parametric excitation. Biological Cybernetics, 85, 89-106.
  • Saltzman, E., Lvfqvist, A., Kinsella-Shaw, J., Kay, B., & Rubin, P., (1998). Dynamics of intergestural timing: A perturbation study of lip-larynx coordination. Experimental Brain Research, 123, 412-424.
  • Warren, W.H. Jr., Kay, B.A., & Yilmaz, E.H. (1996). Visual control of posture during walking: Functional specificity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 22, 818-838.
  • Kay, B.A., Saltzman, E.L., & Kelso, J.A.S. (1991). Steady-state and perturbed rhythmical movements: Dynamical modeling using a variety of analytical tools. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 17, 183-197.
  • Kay, B.A. (1988). The dimensionality of movement trajectories and the degrees of freedom problem: A tutorial. Human Movement Science, 7, 343-364.