Title: Professor Emeritus
CESPA — University of Connecticut
Contact Information:
Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020E-mail: roberteshaw4@gmail.com
Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail
Research Interests:
- Intentional dynamics (i.e., perceptual control of goal-directed behavior)
General: Overviews of Ecological – Cosmological Psychology |
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| Shaw, R. E. (2001). Cosmological Psychology: Reconciling the role of Consciousness in Scientific Studies. In The Bhaktivedanta Institute | Full Text [Word] |
| Shaw, R. E. & Turvey, M. T. (1999). Ecological Foundations of Cognition: II. Degrees of Freedom and Conserved Quantities in Animal — Environment Systems. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6 | Full Text [Word] pdf version |
Empirical |
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| Kim, N-G., Effken, J. A. & Shaw, R. E.(1995). Perceiving persistence under change and over structure. Ecological Psychology, 7 , 217 – 256. | pdf file |
| Effken, J. A., Kim. N – G. & Shaw, R. E.(1997). Making the constraints visible: Testing the ecological approach to interface design. Ergonomics, 40 , 1 – 27. | pdf file
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| Sim, M., Shaw, R. & Turvey, M. T. (1997). Intrinsic and Required Dynamics of a Simple Bat – Ball Skill. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23 . 101 – 115. | pdf file |
Theoretical |
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| Shaw, R. E. (1971). Cognition, simulation and the problem of complexity. Journal of Structural Learning, 2(4), 31-44 | Full text pdf file |
| Shaw, R. E., McIntyre, M.(1974). Algoristic foundations to cognitive psychology. In D. Palermo & W. Weimer, Cognition and the Symbolic Processes. Pages 305 – 362. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. | Full text pdf file |
| Shaw, R. E., McIntyre, M. & Mace, W. M. (1974). The Role of Symmetry in Event Perception. In R. B. McLeod & H. Pick, Jr., Perception: Essays in Honor of James J. Gibson . Pages 276 – 310. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press | Full text pdf file |
| Shaw, R. E. & Wilson, B. E.(1976). Abstract Conceptual Knowledge: How We Know What We Know. In D. Klahr, (ed.) Cognition and Instruction. Pages 197 – 221. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. | pdf file |
| Shaw, R. E. & Pittenger, J. B. (1978). Perceiving Change. In H. Pick and E. Saltzman, Modes of Perceiving and Processing Information . Pages 187 – 204. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. | Full text pdf file |
| Turvey, M. T., Shaw, R. & Mace, W. M. (1978). Issues in the Theory of Action: Degrees of Freedom, Coordinative Structures and Coalitions. In J. Requin, Attention and Performance VII . Pages 557 – 595. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. | Full text pdf file |
| Turvey, M. T. & Shaw, R. (1979). The Primacy of Perceiving: An Ecological Reformulation of Perception for Understanding Memory. Pages 167 – 222. In L-G. Nilsson, Perspectives on Memory Research: Essays in Honor of Uppsala University’s 500th Anniversary . Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. | Full pdf file |
| Shaw, R. E. & Cutting, J. E.(1980). Clues from an Ecological Theory of Event Perception. In U. Bellugi & M. Studdert – Kennedy , (eds.) Biological Constraints on Linguistic Form . pp. 57 – 84. Weinheim: Verlag Chemie | pdf file
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| Shaw, R. E. & Todd, J.(1980). Abstract machine theory and direct perception. [commentary on “Against Direct Perception” by Shimon Ullman] The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3 400 – 401. | shaw_todd |
| Shaw, R.& Turvey, M. T. (1981). Coalitions as models for Ecosystems: A Realist Perspective on Perceptual Organization. In M. Kubovy & J. Pomerantz, Perceptual Organization. Pages 343 – 415. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. | Full Text .pdf file
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| Shaw, R.& Turvey, M. T. (1981). Coalitions as models for Ecosystems: A Realist Perspective on Perceptual Organization. In M. Kubovy & J. Pomerantz, Perceptual Organization. Pages 343 – 415. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. | References for Entire book |
| Turvey, M. T., Shaw, R. E., Reed, E. S. & Mace, W. M. (1981). Ecological laws of perceiving and acting: In reply to Fodor and Pylyshyn. Cognition, 9, 237-304. | pdf file |
| Shaw, R., Turvey, M. T. & Mace, W. M. (1982). Ecological Psychology: The Consequence of a Commitment to Realism. In W. Weimer & D. Palermo, Cognition and the Symbolic Processes II. Pages 159 – 226. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. | Full text pdf file |
| Shaw, R. & Warren, W. H., Jr. (1985). Events and Encounters as Units of Analysis for Ecological Psychology. In W. H. Warren, Jr. & R. E. Shaw, Persistence and Change: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Event Perception. pages 1 – 27. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. | Full Text pdf file |
| Kugler, P., Turvey, M., Carello, C., & Shaw, R. E. (1985). The physics of controlled collisions: A reverie about locomotion. In W. H. Warren, Jr. & R. E. Shaw, Persistence and Change: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Event Perception. pages 195 – 229. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. | Full Text pdf file` |
| Shaw, R. & Alley, T. (1985). How to Draw Learning Curves: Their Use and Justification. In T. Johnston & A. Pietrewicz, Issues in the Ecological Study of Learning. pages 275 – 304. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. | Full Text pdf file |
| Mark, L., Shaw, R. E. & Pittenger, J. B. (1988). Natural Constraints, Scales of Analysis, and Information for the Perception of Growing Faces. In T. R. Alley, Social and Applied Aspects of Perceiving Faces. pages 11 – 49. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. | Full Text plus whole book reference list .pdf file |
| Shaw, R. & Kinsella – Shaw, J. (1988). Ecological Mechanics: A Physical Geometry for Intentional Constraints. Human Movement Science, 7 155 – 200. | Full Text .pdf file
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| Kugler, P. N. & Shaw. R. E. (1990). Symmetry and Symmetry-Breaking in Thermodynamic and Epistemic Engines: A Coupling ·of First and Second Laws. In H. Haken & M. Stadler,Synergetics of Cognition pages 296-331. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. | Full Text .pdf file |
| Kugler, P. N. & Shaw. R. E., Vicente, K. J. and Kinsella-Shaw, J. (1990). Inquiry into intentional systems I: Issues in ecological physics . Psychological Research, 52 , 98-121. | Full Text .pdf file |
| Shaw, R., Kugler, P. & Kinsella – Shaw, J. (1990). Reciprocities of Intentional Systems. In R. Warren & A. H. Wertheim, Perception & control of self-motion. pages 579-619 Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. | Full Text .pdf file |
| Kugler, P. N., Shaw, R. E., Vicente, K. J. & Kinsella – Shaw, J. (1991). The role of attractors in the self-organization of intentional systems. In R. R. Hoffman & D. S. Palermo, Cognition and the Symbolic Processes: Applied and Ecological Perspectives. pages 387-431. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. | Full Text .pdf file |
| Shaw, R., Kadar, E., Sim, M. & Repperger, D. (1992). The Intentional Spring: A Strategy for Modeling Systems that Learn to Perform Intentional Acts. Journal of Motor Behavior, 24. 3 – 28. | Full Text .pdf file |
| Effken, J. Shaw, R. E. (1992). Ecological perspectives on the new artificial intelligence. Ecological Psychology, 4, 247-270. | Full Text .pdf |
| Shaw, R. Kadar, E. & Kinsella – Shaw, J. (1994). Modelling Systems with Intentional Dynamics: A Lesson from Quantum Mechanics. In K. Pribram (ed.) Origins: Brain & Self – Organization 53 – 101. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. | Full Text .pdf file |
| Shaw, R., Flascher, O. & Kadar, E. (1995). Dimensionless Invariants for Intentional Systems: Measuring the Fit of Vehicular Activities to Environmental Layout. In J. Flach, P. Hancock, J. Caird & K. Vicente Global Perspectives on the Ecology of Human – Machine Systems. Vol. 1 Pages 293 – 357. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. | Full Text .pdf file |
| Turvey, M. T. & Shaw,R.E. (1995). Toward an ecological physics and a physical psychology. In R. L. Solso & D. W. Massaro (eds.) The science of the mind: 2001 and beyond. 144-169. New York: Oxford University Press. | Full Text .pdf file |
| Shaw, R., Flascher, O. & Mace, W. (1996). Dimensions of Event Perception. In W. Prinz & B. Bridgeman Handbook of Perception and Action Vol. 1 Pages 345 – 395. New York: Academic Press. | pdf file |
| Chan, T-C. & Shaw, R. E. (1996). What is Ecological Psychology? Psychologia, 39, 1 – 16. | pdf file |
| Shaw, R. E. (1996).Cosmological Psychology: Making Room for Agents in Nature. Proceedings of the Second World Congress on Synthesis of Science and Religion Calcutta, India. (R. Gomatan et al (Eds.), Bhakti Vedanta Institute, Oakland, CA.) | pdf file |
| Shaw, R. E., Kadar, E. E. & Turvey, M. T. (1997). The job description of the cerebellum and a candidate model of its “tidal wave” function. [commentary on Braitenberg, V., Heck, D. & Sultan, F. “The detection and generation of sequences as a key to cerebellar function: Experiments and theory”] The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20 265. | pdf file |
| Barab, S., Cherkes – Julkowski, M., Swenson, R., Garrett, S., Shaw, R. E. & Young, M. (1999).Principles of self – organization: Learning as participation in autocatakinetic systems. The Journal of Learning Sciences, 8, 349 – 390. | Full Text .pdf file |
| Kadar, E. & Shaw, R. E. (2000). Toward an Ecological Field Theory of Perceptual Control of Locomotion. Ecological Psychology, 12, 141 – 180. | Full Text .pdf |
| Shaw, R. E. (2001). Processes, Acts, and Experiences: Three Stances on the Problem of Intentionality. Ecological Psychology, 13, 275 – 314. | Full Text .pdf |
| Shaw, R. E. (2002). Theoretical Hubris and the Willingness to be Radical: An Open Letter to James J. Gibson . Ecological Psychology, 14, 235-247. | Full Text .pdf |
| Shaw, R. E. (2002). Intentional Dynamics of Situated Action. Dynamics systems approach for embodiment and sociality. Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Human and Artificial Systems. Fukui University, Japan, December 6 – 7, 77-86. | Full Text .pdf |
| Shaw, R. E. (2003). The Agent-Environment Interface: Simon’s Indirect or Gibson’s Direct Coupling? Ecological Psychology, 15, 37-106. | Full Text .pdf |
| Shaw, R. E. & Mace, W. M. (2005). The Value of Oriented Geometry for Ecological Psychology and Moving Image Art. In J. D. Anderson & B. F. Anderson Moving Image Theory: Ecological Considerations, pages 28-47. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. | Full Text .pdf Good resolution figures |
| Flascher, I., Shaw, R. E., Michaels, C. & Flascher, O. (2006). A Primer on the Use of Intentional Dynamics Measures and Methods in Applied Research. Ecological Psychology, 18, 257-281. | Full Text .pdf |
| Shaw, R. E. & Kinsella – Shaw, J. (2007). Could Optical “Pushes” Be Inertial Forces? A Geometro-Dynamical Hypothesis. Ecological Psychology, 19 (3) 305 – 320. | Full Text .pdf |
| Shaw, R. E. & Kinsella – Shaw, J. (2007). The Survival Value of Informed Awareness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 14 (3) 137-154. | Full Text .pdf |
| Shaw, R. E. (2011). Ecological Realism as a Reaction to New Realism: Holt’s Legacy to Gibson. In E.P. Charles A New Look at New Realism: The Psychology and Philosophy of E. B. Holt New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. | Full Text .docx |
| Shaw, R. E. & Kinsella-Shaw (2012). Hints of Intelligence from First Principles. Ecological Psychology, 24, 60 – 93. | Full Text .pdf |
| Shaw, R. E. & Kinsella-Shaw (2014). Intentional Quantum Dynamics: Entangling Choices and Goals. International Symposium on Quantum Interaction. pp. 255-270. [Report of 8th International Conference, QI 2014, Filzbach, Switzerland, June 30 — July 3, 2014. Revised Selected Papers. Harald Atmanspacher, Claudia Bergomi, Thomas Filk (Editors). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer (2015)] | Full Text .pdf |
| Shaw, R. E. & Kinsella-Shaw (2019). The challenge of an ecological approach to event perception: How to obtain forceful control from forceless information. In Jeffrey B. Wagman & Julia J. C. Blau. Perception as Information Detection: Reflections on Gibson’s Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. New York: Routledge. | Pre-publication version.pdf — with minor revisions not in published version |
Other:
- Founding President, International Society for Ecological Psychology.
- Editorial Boards:
- Ecological Psychology
- Intelligent Systems
- Co-Editor, Resources for Ecological Psychology (book series).
- U. S. Coordinator, Albert Einstein Institute for Interdisciplinary Scientific Studies.