PAULA FITZPATRICK
Associate Professor of Psychology (1996)
Department of Psychology

B.A., University of Connecticut, 1989
Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1993
Ph.D. Thesis Title: "Development of Bimanual Coordination in a Rhythmic Clapping Task"


Sample of Courses Taught

Undergraduate: Perception, Research Seminar, General Psychology

Sample of Publications

Fitzpatrick, P. "Modeling Coordination Dynamics in Development." Eds. K. Newell and P. Molenaar. Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics to Developmental Process Modeling. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Fitzpatrick, P. "Perception-Action Coupling: Commentary on Rochat's 'Early Development of the Ecological Self' ". Ed. C. Reed. Evolving Explanations of Development:: Ecological Approaches to Organism-environment Systems. Washington, DC: APA.,1997.

Fitzpatrick, P., Carello, C., & Turvey, M.T. "Eigen Values of the Inertia Tensor and Exteroception by the 'Muscular Sense.' "Neuroscience, 60.2 (1994):551-568.


Sample of Presentations

Fitzpatrick, P. "Issues in Dynamical Modeling in Development: Dynamic Touch and Clapping." Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, St. Charles, Illinois, 1998

Fitzpatrick, P., & Schmidt, R.C. "Using Dynamical Methods to Understand Developing Systems." 9th International Conference on Perception and Action, University of Toronto at Scarborogh, July, 1997

Fitzpatrick, P. "Development of Motor Coordination in Clapping." Tulane University Psychology Department Colloquium Series, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 1993


Assistant Professor of Psychology (1996)

B.A., University of Connecticut, 1989
Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1993
Ph.D. Thesis Title: "Development of Bimanual Coordination in a Rhythmic Clapping Task"