Michael Turvey, Date of Birth
TweetMichael Turvey
American psychologist
Date of Birth: 14-Feb-1942
Profession: psychologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Michael Turvey
- Michael T.
- Turvey is the Board of Trustees' Distinguished Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Connecticut and a Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut.
- He is best known for his pioneering work in ecological psychology and in applying dynamic systems approach for the study of motor behavior.
- He is the founder of the Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action[1].
- His research spans a number of areas including: dynamic touch and haptics, interlimb coordination, visual perception and optic flow, postural stability, visual word recognition and speech perception.
- Along with William Mace [2] and Robert Shaw [3], he has been one of the leading explicators of the ecological psychology of J.
- J.
- Gibson.
- His pioneering work with J.
- A.
- Scott Kelso and Peter N.
- Kugler introduced the physical language of complex systems to the understanding of perception and action.
- He also helped to introduce the ideas of Russian motor control theorist, Nikolai Bernstein [4], and his colleagues to a larger audience.
- Working with Georgije Lukatela [5] and other colleagues at Haskins Laboratories, he has exploited the dual nature of the Serbo-Croatian orthography to help understand word recognition. Turvey is also the winner of the IgNobel Prize[6] in Physics along with Prof.
- Ramesh Balasubramaniam of Cognitive & Information Sciences at the University of California, Merced [7], for exploring and explaining the dynamics of hula-hooping. (Reference: "Coordination Modes in the Multisegmental Dynamics of Hula Hooping," Ramesh Balasubramaniam and Michael T.
- Turvey, Biological Cybernetics, vol.
- 90, no.
- 3, March 2004, pp.
- 176–90.)
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