# Elliot Saltzman

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**Elliot Saltzman** [\[1\]](https://web.archive.org/web/20061220181630/http://www.bu.edu/sargent/about/faculty/physical-therapy/saltzman/)[\[2\]](http://www.haskins.yale.edu/staff/saltzman.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20060906233225/http://www.haskins.yale.edu/STAFF/saltzman.html) 2006-09-06 at the Wayback Machine is an American [psychologist](/source/Psychologist) and speech scientist. He is a professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at [Boston University](/source/Boston_University) and a Senior Scientist at [Haskins Laboratories](/source/Haskins_Laboratories) in [New Haven, Connecticut](/source/New_Haven,_Connecticut). He is best known for his development, with [J. A. Scott Kelso](/source/J._A._Scott_Kelso) of "task dynamics [\[3\]](https://web.archive.org/web/20041215141051/http://www.essex.ac.uk/speech/pubs/presents/aut-96/aut-96.html)." He is also known for his contributions to the development of a gestural-computational model [\[4\]](http://www.haskins.yale.edu/research/gestural.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20061208095105/http://www.haskins.yale.edu/research/gestural.html) 2006-12-08 at the Wayback Machine at [Haskins Laboratories](/source/Haskins_Laboratories) that combines task dynamics with [articulatory phonology](/source/Articulatory_phonology) and [articulatory synthesis](/source/Articulatory_synthesis). His research interests include application of theories and methods of [nonlinear dynamics](/source/Nonlinear_dynamics) and [complexity theory](/source/Complex_systems) to understanding the dynamical and biological bases of sensorimotor coordination and control. He is the co-founder, with [Philip Rubin](/source/Philip_Rubin), of the [IS group](/source/IS_group).

## Education

Elliot Saltzman received his A.B. in [psychology](/source/Psychology) from [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University) in 1970 and his Ph.D. in [developmental psychology](/source/Developmental_psychology) from the [University of Minnesota](/source/University_of_Minnesota) in 1979.

## Selected publications

- Saltzman, E. (1979). Levels of sensorimotor representation. *Journal of Mathematical Psychology*, 91–163.
- [Browman, C. P.](/source/Catherine_Browman), [Goldstein, L.](/source/Louis_M._Goldstein), [Kelso, J. A. S.](/source/J._A._Scott_Kelso), [Rubin, P. E.](/source/Philip_Rubin), & 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.](/source/Carol_Fowler), & 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.

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