Cognitive Science Faculty


Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary program that involves faculty from many departments across the campus. These include psychology, philosophy, computer science, and sociology and anthropology.


Sue Barrett
Psychology

Cognitive development
Children's understanding of the mind
Metacognition
Perceptual and conceptual development


Gordon Bearn
Philosophy

I am interested in whether the philosophers in our century who despise the science-centering of life and thought (Wittgenstein, Heidegger) as well as those who welcome this trend (Russell, Carnap, Quine, Churchland, Churchland) might not BOTH be muddled. Both presuppose the existence of a clean cut between philosophy and science and simply choose to be on different teams. But the late work of the likes of Derrida, Foucault, and Deleuze, inspires the thought that there can be no clean cut of the sort required by both teams. This touches none of the substance of the laboratory life the naturalizers love, but makes the ideological defense of either the laboratory or the library indefensible. Where does this leave us? Well yes, precisely, where does this leave us?


Mark Bickhard
Psychology, Philosophy, Biology, Computer Science, Counseling

Cognitive Robotics
Theoretical Psychology
. . . The Whole Person

Philosophy
Psychology
Cognitive Science
Artificial Intelligence
Evolutionary Biology
Cognitive Neuroscience

A statement of professional interests.


Glenn Blank
Computer Science

Natural Language Processing


John Gatewood
Sociology/Anthropology

Language, thought, and culture
Social organization of knowledge
Cognition and action
Folk classification systems
Decision-making under risk and uncertainty
Maritime anthropology


Michael Gill
Psychology

Social cognition and metacognition
Confidence and accuracy of interpersonal perception
Origins of confidence
Mental representations of social groups
Social categorization


Steve Goldman
Philosophy



Laura Gonnerman
Psychology

The structure of the lexical semantic system
Representation of complex words


Ed Kay
Computer Science


G. Drew Kessler
Computer Science

Computer Graphics
3D Computer Interactions


Alex Levine
Philosophy

Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Science


Barbara Malt
Psychology

Cognition
Language and concepts
Concept formation in adults and children
Models of categorization
Comprehension and use of reference
Word meaning



Gerald W. McRoberts
Psychology

Language and Cognitive Development in Infancy
Neuropsychology
Perception and Perceptual Development


Gordon Moskowitz
Psychology

Person Perception
Sociel Cognition
Social Influence


Ageliki Nicolopoulou
Psychology

Sociocultural developmental psychology: currently focusing on the developmental roles of narrative and play, social understanding, identity formation (including gender identity), moral development, and the interplay of literacy and orality.


John Nyby
Department of Biological Sciences

Cognitive Neuroscience



Pat O'Seaghdha
Psychology

Cognition
Language production and comprehension
Connectionist models of language processing



Colin J. Saldanha
Department of Biological Sciences

Structural and Functional Neuroplasticity
Neuroanatomy
Neuroendocrinology


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