Post Doctoral Associates
Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS)
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Chuanxiuyue (Carol) He
Carol received her PhD in Psychological and Brain Sciences from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her main research interest lies in understanding how people think spatially, such as navigating from one place to another and comprehending and memorizing spatial relations in virtual or augmented realities. She investigates questions like how individuals interact with spatial information and how they utilize spatial context to integrate episodic memory in a broad sense. Furthermore, Carol employs computational models to explore how individual differences in spatial abilities impact the strategy selection in both spatial and nonspatial cognitive tasks.
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Shannon Bryant
Shannon received her PhD in Linguistics from Harvard University. She works at the interface of syntax and semantics, with a particular interest in the interplay between language and concepts. Drawing from a mix of experimental methods and theoretical perspectives, her research addresses questions like: How does the architecture of human language reflect the way we mentally model the world around us? How do the grammatical choices we encounter help shape the mental models we build? What are the basic building blocks of linguistic meaning, and how are these building blocks bundled up across languages? Specific topics she has worked on include binding and reflexivity, argument structure, clausal complementation, and attitude reports.
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James Preston Lennon
Preston received his Ph.D. in philosophy from The Ohio State University in 2022. His research interests are in the philosophy of mind, with a focus on conscious thought. His research defends a conception of thoughts as they seem to be from the first-person perspective, as events in the stream of consciousness, and this work has appeared in Erkenntnis, Inquiry, Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind, and Synthese. He is also interested in applied ethical issues arising in sports.
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Carolyn Lutken
Jane is a linguist interested in the underlying mechanisms of language acquisition, particularly of complex syntax. Her research investigates the role of working memory and planning in production and comprehension of complex structures. She also uses Optimality Theory in her cross-linguistic investigations of variation in complex questions and is currently focusing on the use of different structures in Hindi, Hungarian, German, and English.
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Paul Robinson
Paul holds MSc degrees in Philosophy of Science (London School of Economics) and Cognitive and Decision Sciences (University College London) and in 2020 he received his PhD in Philosophy with Interdisciplinary Specialization in Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Ohio State University). His research focus is on cognition, rationality, and human origins. He has published on the nature of inference and his current work investigates cognitive biases and the evolution of human reasoning. The ultimate goal of his research is to advance an interdisciplinary understanding of human nature that can be usefully applied in real world settings such as conflict resolution and deliberative democracy initiatives.
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Joseph Sommer
Joseph received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Rutgers University. He is interested in the bounded rationality of cognition under computational constraints and a broad intersection of fields relevant to belief including the philosophy of mental representation, epistemology, and the psychology of persuasion, reasoning, and judgment and decision making. His current work aims at understanding the cognitive mechanisms underlying belief, including how beliefs are updated (or not) in response to evidence.
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