Elliot Saltzman''

http://www.haskins.yale.edu/staff/saltzman.html] is an American

psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and interpretation of how indi ...

and speech scientist. He is a professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

and a Senior Scientist at

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. He is best known for his development, with

J. A. Scott Kelso J. A. Scott Kelso (born 1947 in Derry, Northern Ireland) is an American neuroscientist, and Professor of Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Professor of Psychology, Biological Sciences and Biomedical Science at Florida Atlantic University (FA ...

of "task dynamic

" He is also known for his contributions to the development of a gestural-computational mode

at

that combines task dynamics with

articulatory phonology Articulatory phonology is a linguistic theory originally proposed in 1986 by Catherine Browman of Haskins Laboratories and Louis Goldstein of University of Southern California and Haskins. The theory identifies theoretical discrepancies between phon ...

and

articulatory synthesis Articulatory synthesis refers to computational techniques for synthesizing speech based on models of the human vocal tract and the articulation processes occurring there. The shape of the vocal tract can be controlled in a number of ways which us ...

. His research interests include application of theories and methods of

nonlinear dynamics In mathematics and science, a nonlinear system is a system in which the change of the output is not proportional to the change of the input. Nonlinear problems are of interest to engineers, biologists, physicists, mathematicians, and many other ...

and complexity theory to understanding the dynamical and biological bases of sensorimotor coordination and control. He is the co-founder, with

Philip Rubin Philip E. Rubin (born May 22, 1949) is an American cognitive scientist, technologist, and science administrator known for raising the visibility of behavioral and cognitive science, neuroscience, and ethical issues related to science, techn ...

, of the IS group.

Education

Elliot Saltzman received his A.B. in

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

in 1970 and his Ph.D. in

developmental psychology Developmental psychology is the science, scientific study of how and why humans grow, change, and adapt across the course of their lives. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult deve ...

from the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

in 1979.

Selected publications

* Saltzman, E. (1979). Levels of sensorimotor representation. ''Journal of Mathematical Psychology'', 91–163. * Browman, C. P., Goldstein, L., Kelso, J. A. S., Rubin, P. E., & Saltzman, E. (1984). Articulatory synthesis from underlying dynamics. ''Journal of the Acoustical Society of America'', 75, S22. * Saltzman, E. (1986) Task dynamic coordination of the speech articulators: a preliminary model. In H. Heuer and C. Fromm (eds.) ''Generation and Modulation of Action Patterns''. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 129–144 * Saltzman, E., & Kelso, J. A. S. (1987). Skilled actions: A task dynamic approach. ''Psychological Review'', 94, 84–106. * Saltzman, E., Rubin, P. E., Goldstein, L., & Browman, C. P. (1987). Task-dynamic modeling of interarticulator coordination. ''Journal of the Acoustical Society of America'', 82, S15. * Saltzman, E. L. & Munhall, K. G. (1989). A dynamical approach to gestural patterning in speech production. ''Ecological Psychology'', 1, (4), 333–382. * Turvey, M.T., Saltzman, E., & Schmidt, R.C. (1991). Dynamics and task-specific coordinations. In N. I. Badler, B. A. Barsky, & D. Zeltzer, (Eds.). ''Making them move: Mechanics, control, and animation of articulated figures''. San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. (pp. 157–170). * Saltzman, E., & Munhall, K. G. (1992). Skill acquisition and development: The roles of state-, parameter-, and graph-dynamics. ''Journal of Motor Behavior'', 24(1), 49–57. * Saltzman, E. (1992). Biomechanical and haptic factors in the temporal patterning of limb and speech activity. ''Human Movement Science'', 11, 239–251. * Fowler, C. A., & Saltzman, E. (1993). Coordination and coarticulation in speech production. ''Speech Communication'', 36 (2,3), 171–195. * Hogden, J., Rubin, P., & Saltzman, E. (1996). An unsupervised method for learning to track tongue position from an acoustic signal. ''Bulletin de la Communication Parlèe''. * Saltzman, E., Lofqvist, A., Kay, B., Kinsella-Shaw, J. & Rubin, P. (1998). Dynamics of intergestural timing: a perturbation study of lip-larynx coordination. Journal of Experimental Brain Research, 123, 412–424. * Saltzman, E., & Byrd, D. (1998) Tending the garden or the plant? ''Bulletin de la Communication Parlee'', no 4, p. 79-83. * Saltzman, E., & Byrd, D. (2000). Task-dynamics of gestural timing: Phase windows and multifrequency rhythms. ''Human Movement Science'', 19, 999–526. {{DEFAULTSORT:Saltzman, Elliot 21st-century American psychologists Boston University faculty Harvard University alumni Haskins Laboratories scientists Speech production researchers University of Minnesota alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people)