Michael McBeath does research in the emerging area combining psychology, engineering, and perception-action. He majored in both psychology and electrical engineering for his bachelor’s degree from Brown University, received a master's in electronic instrumentation from the University of California, and earned his doctoral degree from Stanford University in psychology with a minor in electrical engineering. Parallel to his academic career, he worked as a research scientist, both at NASA - Ames Research Center, and later at the Interval Corporation, a technology think tank funded by Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen. McBeath has been a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University since 1998, where he is also adjunct faculty in Kinesiology, Neuroscience, Life Sciences, Animal Behavior, Electrical Engineering, the School of Arts, Media, and Engineering, and ASU’s Global Sports Institute. His research has been funded by grants from the Interval Corporation, the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research.
McBeath’s work focuses on computational modeling of perception-action in dynamic, natural environments, with specialties that span sports, robotics, music, navigation, animal behavior, and multisensory object perception. His most widely known work is on navigational strategies used by baseball players, animals, and robots. His baseball interception research was published in the journal, Science, his dog Frisbee study was made fun of on Saturday Night Live, and his autonomous ball-catching robot was selected by the New York Times Magazine as one of its ideas of the year. And he plays a mean harmonica.
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 437 | Human Factors |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MTC 500 | Research Methods |
PSY 592 | Research |
PSY 598 | Special Topics |
PSY 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 323 | Sensation and Perception |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MTC 500 | Research Methods |
PSY 592 | Research |
PSY 598 | Special Topics |
PSY 599 | Thesis |
PSY 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 323 | Sensation and Perception |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MTC 500 | Research Methods |
PSY 592 | Research |
PSY 598 | Special Topics |
PSY 599 | Thesis |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PSY 592 | Research |
PSY 599 | Thesis |
PSY 792 | Research |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 323 | Sensation and Perception |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MTC 500 | Research Methods |
PSY 598 | Special Topics |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 394 | Special Topics |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PSY 528 | Sensation and Perception |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 323 | Sensation and Perception |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 437 | Human Factors |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 323 | Sensation and Perception |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Spring 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 323 | Sensation and Perception |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Fall 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 394 | Special Topics |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PSY 591 | Seminar |