Davidi Lee (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)

“Natural solutions to complex problems"

email  d.n.lee@ed.ac.uk
website http://www.perception-in-action.ed.ac.uk

David Lee, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Perception Action and Development at the University of Edinburgh and is founding Director of the Perception-Movement-Action Research Centre there. He holds academic degrees in Mathematics (Cambridge University)  and Psychology/Computer Methods (London University), has an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Uppsala University, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. As a post-doc he studied perception and action with James J Gibson at Cornell University, before returning to the UK to teach and do research in the Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh from 1970 to 2004. His scientific aim over the past 40 years has been to discover general fundamental principles underpinning the guidance of purposive movements in humans and animals. To this end, he has developed General Tau Theory and is currently using the theory to study experimentally the development of basic intersubjective, manual and locomotor skills in human infants; musical performance skills; athletic skills; flying skills; rehabilitation of basic skills in, e.g., Parkinson's disease and cerebellar ataxia; sensory guidance of movement in cells; and the electrical energy patterns in the brain that guide movement.

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