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Claire F. Michaels

Claire F. Michaels

Title: Research Professor
Departmental Program: Experimental
E-mail: claire.michaels@uconn.edu
Office: To be determined
Office Phone: (860) 486-5680
Website: 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:

  • The coordination of action with respect to vision.
  • Advocacy and elaboration of the ecological approach to perception and action.
  • S-R compatibility in Choice RT.
  • Learning and calibration in perception and action.

Undergraduate courses:

Representative Publications:

  • Michaels, C. F. (1988). S-R compatibility between response position and destination of apparent motion: Evidence of the detection of affordances. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 14, 231-240.
  • Michaels, C. F., & Oudejans, R. R. D. (1992). The optics and actions of catching fly balls: Zeroing out optical acceleration. Ecological Psychology, 4, 199-222.
  • Michaels, C. F., & de Vries, M. M. (1998). Higher-order and lower-order variables in the visual perception of relative pulling force. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24, 526-546.

Other:

  • Also at Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.