Roberta L. Klatzky

Klatzky's primary research areas are perceptually guided action and spatial cognition, as influenced by multiple modalities, sensory and symbolic. She contributed seminal findings in haptic perception (stereotyped exploratory patterns in humans' object identification; comparative specialization of touch and vision), embodied cognition (linking action phrases to motor representations), human locomotion (path integration without vision), virtual perceptual-motor environments (rendering techniques for sound and touch), and spatial cognition (perceptually vs. cognitively guided action). Her basic research is characterized by theoretical and empirical rigor. In addition, she has collaborated with researchers in other fields to provide real world applications derived from her research.