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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1973 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Michael T. Turvey was affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research spanned primarily the field of Engineering, with a focus on several specialized subfields. These subfields included Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Media Technology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Computational Mechanics and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The core topics within their scholarly work revolved around Liquid Crystal Research Advancements, Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies, Surface Roughness and Optical Measurements, Optical measurement and interference techniques, Photonic Crystals and Applications, Optical and Acousto-Optic Technologies, and Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry.

Michael T. Turvey authored and co-authored numerous scientific papers. Notable recent publications included:

  • "Acoustic field visualisation using local absorption of ultrasound and thermochromic liquid crystals" (2024) published in Ultrasonics
  • "Polymer-dispersed liquid-crystal coatings for ultrasound visualization: Experiment and theory" (2024) published in Physical review. E
  • "Ultrasonic displacement measurements from local absorption of ultrasound in thermochromic liquid crystal sensors" (2024) published in Ultrasonics
  • "Acoustic Field Visualisation Using Local Absorption of Ultrasound and Thermochromic Liquid Crystals" (2023) published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Ultrasonic Displacement Measurements from Local Absorption of Ultrasound in Thermochromic Liquid Crystal Sensors" (2024) published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors during their research career included O. Trushkevych, R. S. Edwards, Richard L. Watson, D.A. Hutchins, and Claudia Carello.

Publication venues where Michael T. Turvey's work appeared frequently were Ultrasonics, SSRN Electronic Journal, Physical review. E, and Ecological Psychology.

During their lifetime, Michael T. Turvey was recognized with awards such as the Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, granted in 1973.

Best Publications

  • Affordances and Prospective Control: An Outline of the Ontology

    M. T. Turvey

  • On peripheral and central processes in vision: inferences from an information-processing analysis of masking with patterned stimuli.

    Turvey Mt

  • Phase transitions and critical fluctuations in the visual coordination of rhythmic movements between people.

    R. C. Schmidt;Claudia Carello;M. T. Turvey

  • 1 On the Concept of Coordinative Structures as Dissipative Structures: I. Theoretical Lines of Convergence*

    Peter N. Kugler;J.A. Scott Kelso;M.T. Turvey

  • Ecological laws of perceiving and acting: In reply to Fodor and Pylyshyn (1981 )*

    Michael T. Turvey;R. E. Shaw;Edward S. Reed;William M. Mace

  • Self-organization of cognitive performance.

    Guy C. Van Orden;John G. Holden;Michael T. Turvey

  • The motor theory of speech perception reviewed.

    Bruno Galantucci;Carol A. Fowler;Carol A. Fowler;Carol A. Fowler;M. T. Turvey;M. T. Turvey

  • Information, affordances, and the control of action in sport.

    Brett R. Fajen;Michael A. Riley;Michael T. Turvey

  • An auditory analogue of the sperling partial report procedure: Evidence for brief auditory storage

    Christopher J. Darwin;Christopher J. Darwin;Michael T. Turvey;Michael T. Turvey;Robert G. Crowder

  • Variability and Determinism in Motor Behavior

    Michael A. Riley;M. T. Turvey

  • Contrasting orientations to the theory of visual information processing.

    M. T. Turvey

  • Visually perceiving what is reachable.

    Claudia Carello;Alexis Grosofsky;Francene D. Reichel;H. Yosef Solomon

  • Action and perception at the level of synergies

    M.T. Turvey

  • Haptically perceiving the distances reachable with hand-held objects.

    H. Yosef Solomon;M. T. Turvey

  • Coalitions as models for Ecosystems: A Realist Perspective on Perceptual Organization

    Robert Shaw;M. T. Turvey

  • Visual lexical access is initially phonological: I. Evidence from associative priming by words, homophones, and pseudohomophones

    Georgije Lukatela;M. T. Turvey

  • Weight perception and the haptic size-weight illusion are functions of the inertia tensor.

    Eric L. Amazeen;M. T. Turvey

  • Visual lexical access is initially phonological: 2. Evidence from phonological priming by homophones and pseudohomophones.

    Georgije Lukatela;M. T. Turvey

  • The ecological approach to perception

    Claudia Carello;M. T. Turvey

  • Central sources of visual masking: indexing structures supporting seeing at a single, brief glance.

    Claire F. Michaels;M. T. Turvey;M. T. Turvey

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudia Carello
Claudia Carello University of Connecticut
Kevin Shockley
Kevin Shockley University of Cincinnati
Lawrence D. Rosenblum
Lawrence D. Rosenblum University of California, Riverside
Laurie Beth Feldman
Laurie Beth Feldman University at Albany, State University of New York
Anthony Chemero
Anthony Chemero University of Cincinnati
Leonard Katz
Leonard Katz Haskins Laboratories
Guy C. Van Orden
Guy C. Van Orden University of Cincinnati
Carol A. Fowler
Carol A. Fowler University of Connecticut
Michael J. Richardson
Michael J. Richardson Macquarie University
Thomas A. Stoffregen
Thomas A. Stoffregen University of Minnesota

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