Title: Professor

Contact Information:

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

E-mail: CESPA1@uconnvm.uconn.edu

Office Phone: (860) 486-3529
Lab Phone: (860) 486-2078

CoRR Involvement:

Dr. Carello is the director of the Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action. Her studies in Haptic Proprioception will serve as the foundation for CoRR research.

Research Interests:

• Dynamic touch, Ecological acoustics, Dynamical constraints on pictorial information, Phonological constraints on word recognition.

Representative Publications:

• Carello, C., Anderson, K. L., & Peck, A. (1998). Perception of object length by sound. Psychological Science, 9, 211-214.
• Carello, C. & Moreno, M. (2005). Why nonlinear methods? In M. A. Riley & G. Van Orden (Eds). Tutorials in contemporary nonlinear methods for the behavioral sciences (pp. 1-25). Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation.
• Carello, C., Thuot, S., Anderson, K. L., & Turvey, M. T. (1999). Perceiving the sweet spot. Perception, 28, 1128-1141.
• Carello, C., Thuot, S., & Turvey, M. T. (2000). Aging and the perception of a racket's sweet spot. Human Movement Science, 19, 28-41.
• Carello, C., & Turvey, M. T. (2000). Rotational dynamics and dynamic touch. In M. Heller (Ed.), Touch, representation and blindness (pp. 27-66). Oxford : Oxford University Press.
• Carello, C., & Turvey, M. T. (2000). Rotational invariants and dynamic touch. In M. Heller (Ed.), Touch, representation and blindness (pp. 27-66). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Carello, C., & Turvey, M. T. (2002). The ecological approach to perception. Encyclopedia of cognitive science. London: Nature Publishing Group.
• Carello, C., & Turvey, M. T. (2004). Physics and psychology of the muscle sense. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, 25-28 .
• Kim, N-G., Effken, J., & Carello, C. (1998). Optical specification of time to contact for a spectator. Ecological Psychology, 10, 128-156.