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Michael T. Turvey

Michael T. Turvey

Title: Board of Trustees' Distinguished Professor


Departmental Program: Perception, Action, Cognition: Ecological Psychology

E-mail: michael.turvey@uconn.edu

Office Phone: (860) 486-3906
Lab Phone: (860) 486-6149

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
  • Interlimb coordination
  • Optic flow
  • Postural stability
  • Visual word recognition

Undergraduate courses:

Graduate courses:

  • Ecological and Representational/Computational
  • Approaches to Perception
  • Control and Coordination of Action

Representative Publications:

  • Gallantucci, B., Fowler, C., & Turvey, M. T. (2006). The motor theory of speech perception reviewed. Pyschonomics Bulletin and Review, 13, 361-377.
  • Lukatela, G., Eaton, T., Moreno, M., & Turvey, M. T. (2007). Equivalent inter- and intra-modality long-term priming: Evidence for a common lexicon for words seen and words heard. Memory & Cognition, 35, 781-800.
  • Chemero, A., & Turvey, M. T. (2007).  Complexity, hypersets, and the ecological approach to perception-action. Biological Theory, 2, 23-36.
  • Hajnal, A., Fonseca, S., Kinsella-Shaw, J., Silva, P., Carello, C., & Turvey, M. T. (2007). Haptic selective attention by foot and by hand.  Neuroscience Letters, 419, 5-9.
  • Turvey, M. T. (2007).  Action and perception at the level of synergies. Human Movement Science, 26, 657-697.
  • Rhodes, T. & Turvey, M. T. (2007). Human memory retrieval as Lévy foraging. Physica A, 385, 255-260.

Other:

  • John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1973
  • Early Career Award, American Psychological Association, 1974
  • University of Connecticut Alumni Award for Teaching Excellence, 1975
  • Fellow at Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, 1980
  • James McKeen Cattell Fellowship, 1987
  • University of Connecticut Alumni Association Distinguished Professor 1994-1997
  • Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1995
  • Distinguished Scientist Lecturer, American Psychological Association, 1998
  • Fellow of the Society for Experimental Psychologists (elected 1999)
  • University of Connecticut Board of Trustees’ Distinguished Professor, 2000
  • American Psychological Foundation F. J. McGuigan Lecturer, 2003
  • Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2004
  • “Ig Nobel” Prize in Physics, 2004
  • Ohio State University Distinguished Alumnus Award 2006