Michael T. Turvey

Title: Board of Trustees' Distinguished Professor

Departmental Program: Experimental: Ecological Psychology

Contact Information:

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

E-mail: michael.turvey@uconn.edu

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

Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail

Research Interests:

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

Representative Recent Publications:

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.

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 L?vy foraging. Physica A, 385, 255-260.

Silva, P., Moreno, M., Mancini, M., Fonseca, S., & Turvey, M. T. (2007). Steady-state stress at one hand magnifies the amplitude, stiffness, and non-linearity of oscillatory behavior at the other hand. Neuroscience Letters. 429, 64-68.

Chemero, A., & Turvey, M. T. (2008). Autonomy and hypersets. Biosystems, 91, 320-330.

Other:

• University of Connecticut Board of Trustees' Distinguished Professor Award, 2000.
  • UConn Advance, 2/28/00
  • UConn Advance, 10/9/00
  • UConn Advance, 9/5/06
• University of Connecticut Alumni Association's Distinguished Professor, 1994-1997.
• Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1995.
• American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientist Lecturer, 1998.
• Senior Research Scientist, Haskins Laboratories (New Haven, CT).
• Collaboratory for Rehabilitation Research
• 2004 Ig Nobel Physics Prize