Links to websites related to perception-action, cognitive science, and complex systems studies. About the Graduate Program Students pursue a program of study that will provide them with the intellectual and technical skills demanded by problems in ecological psychology. Courses include Ecological and Computational Theories of Perception, Control and Coordination of Movement, Ecological Measurement Theory, Social Affordances, Mathematics and Physics for Ecological Psychology, Nonlinear Dynamics and Movement Control, Evolution and Development, and Self-Organizing Systems. Firm footing in the computational perspective is provided by courses in Sensory Mechanisms, Cognitive Systems, Psychology of Language, and Neural Networks. Depending on a particular student's interests, courses outside of Psychology are commonly taken, and have included biomechanics, computer graphics, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of language, evolutionary biology, nonlinear dynamics, differential equations, linear algebra, and tensor calculus.
Teaching is an important part of graduate student training.
Teaching assistants participate in an eight-hour orientation before they get in front of a classroom. In this course, students' assigned lectures, ranging from Introductory Psychology classes to conference presentations, are critiqued by Professor Turvey and their fellow students. This is an experience that participants eventually enjoy.