Phone:(480) 965-8930
Fax: (480) 965-8544

E-mail:
michael.mcbeath@asu.edu

Websites:
www.public.asu.edu/~mmcbeath

Michael K. McBeath, PhD, 1990, Stanford University

Cognitive Systems

Research Interests: Three Departments: kinds of pitch perception: Baseball, music, and spatial orientation (each with the central theme of modeling perceptual principles that reflect regularities of nature).

Teaching: Sensation and Perception
Human Factors
Navigation and Perception in Sports
Web Authoring and Design

Research projects
Baseball: Use of group center-of attention as a cue. Robotic simulation of human catching heuristics.

Audition: Dynamic pitch perception and auditory scene analysis. Virtual pitch perception.

Navigation: Navigation of the World Wide Web. Multisensory spatial perception

Selected Publications:

Shaffer, D.M. Krauchunas, S.M., Eddy, M. & McBeath, M.K. (2004). How dogs navigate to catch Frisbees.. Psychological Science, 15(7), 437-441.

McBeath, M.K., Shaffer, D.M., & Kaiser, M.K. (1995). How baseball outfielders determine where to run to catch fly balls. Science. 268(5210), 569-573.

McBeath, M.K. & Neuhoff, J.G. (2002). The Doppler Effect is not what you think it is: Dramatic pitch change due to dynamic intensity change. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9(2), 306-313.

Neuhoff, J.G. & McBeath, M.K. (1997) Overcoming naive mental models in explaining the Doppler shift: An illusion creates confusion. American Journal of Physics. 65(7). 618-622.

Scharine, A.A. & McBeath, M.K. (2002) Right handers and Americans favor turning to the right. Human Factors, 44(1), 248-256.

McBeath, M.K., Schiano, D.J., & Tversky, B. (1997). Three-dimensional bilateral symmetry assumed in judging figural identity and orientation. Psychological Science. 8(3). 217-223