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Robert E. Shaw
Robert E. Shaw
Title: Professor
Departmental Program: Experimental: Ecological
E-mail: roberteshaw@aol.com
Office Phone: (860) 486-4107
Lab Phone: (860) 5808
Web site: CESPA
Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020
Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail
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Research Interests:
- Intentional dynamics (i.e., perceptual control of goal-directed
behavior)
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Undergraduate courses:
- Sensation & Perception
- History & Systems
- Sensation & Perception Laboratory
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Graduate courses:
- Introduction to Cognitive Systems
- Special Topics in Cognitive Systems Theory
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Representative Publications:
- Shaw, R., Kadar, E., and Turvey, M. (1997), The Job Description
of the Cerebellum and a Candidate Model of its "Tidal Wave"
Function. Behavior and Brain Sciences, 20, 265.
- Barab, S., Cherkes-Julkowski, M., Swenson, R., Garrett, S.,
& Shaw, R. (1999). Principles of self-organization: ecologizing
the learner-facilitator system. The Journal of the Learning
Sciences, 8, 349-390.
- Shaw, R. E., & Turvey, M. T. (1999). Ecological foundations
of cognition: II. Degrees of freedom and conserved quantities
in animal-environment systems. Journal of Consciousness Studies,
6, 111-123.
Other:
- Founding President, International Society for Ecological
Psychology.
- Editorial Boards:
- Ecological Psychology
- Intelligent Systems
- Co-Editor, Resources for Ecological Psychology (book series).
- U. S. Coordinator, Albert Einstein Institute for Interdisciplinary
Scientific Studies.
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