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Claudia Carello

Claudia Carello

Title: Professor


Departmental Program: Perception, Action, Cognition: Ecological

E-mail: claudia.carello@uconn.edu
Office Phone: (860) 486-3529
Lab Phone: (860) 486-2078

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.
  • Ecological acoustics.
  • Implications of ecological psychology for rehabilitation.
  • Phonological constraints on word recognition.

Undergraduate courses:

  • Sensation & Perception
  • Sensation & Perception Laboratory
  • General Psychology I.

Representative Publications:

  • Wagman, J. B., Carello, C., Schmidt, R. C., & Turvey, M. T. (2009). Is perceptual learning unimodal? Ecological Psychology, 21, 37-67.
  • Silva, P. L., Harrison, S. J., Kinsella-Shaw, J. M., & Turvey, M. T., & Carello, C. (2009). Lessons for dynamic touch from a case of stroke-induced motor impairment. Ecological Psychology, 21, 1-17.
  • Isenhower, R. W., Richardson, M. J., Carello, C., Baron, R. M., & Marsh, K. L. (2010). Affording cooperation: embodied constraints, dynamics, and action-scaled invariance in joint lifting. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 342-347.
  • Turvey, M. T., & Carello, C. (2011). Obtaining information by dynamic (effortful) touching. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 366, 3123-3132.
  • Turvey, M. T., Harrison, S., Frank, T. D., & Carello, C. (2012). Human odometry verifies the symmetry perspective on bipedal gaits. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38, 1014-1025.
  • Isenhower, R. W., Frank, T. D., Kay, B. K., & Carello, C. (2012) A method for capturing and quantifying the valenced event structure of the organism-environment system. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, 16, 397-407.
  • Carello, C., Vaz, D., Blau, J. J. C., & Petrusz, S. C. (2012). Unnerving intelligence. Ecological Psychology, 24, 241-264.
  • Blau, J. J. C., Petrusz, S. C., & Carello, C. (2013). Fractal structure of perceived events in film. Ecological Psychology, 25, 81-101.
  • Lee, Y., Lee, S., Carello, C., & Turvey, M. T. (in press). An archer's perceived form scales the hit-ableness of archery targets. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Other:

  • Director of the Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action..
  • Board of Directors , Haskins Laboratories (New Haven, CT).