Affiliate Members

Associates housed in various departments who play an active role in the intellectual life of the Center.

Faculty and researchers associated with RuCCS represent a variety of disciplines. The list below organizes faculty and researchers by their department of affiliation. Clicking on a person's name will direct you to their web page, where information regarding their research interests and recent publications may be found.

Brain Behavior Center
	Dr. Daniel Kolak-BBC dkolak {at} ruccs.rutgers.edu Cognitive Science(cognitive neuroscience; self-representation; information processing; knowledge representation; mental models; the logic and mathematics of mental processes; autism, confabulation, self-deception, MPD; dreaming), Philosophy of Mind (personal identity, consciousness, and self; philosophical psychology; psychoanalytic theory)
Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)
	Dr. Lila Gleitman  gleitman {at} psych.upenn.edu Psycholinguistics: morphological and syntactic structure. Language acquisition: representation of the soundwave; syntax; construction of the lexicon.
	Dr. Daniel Kolak-RuCCS  dkolak {at} ruccs.rutgers.edu Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic, Philosophy of Physics
Center for Discrete Mathematics (DIMACS)
	Dr. Michael Leyton  (Psychology) mleyton {at} dimacs.rutgers.edu Foundational analyses of memory and perception in terms of symmetry principles; application to the structure of paintings, aesthetics and the structure of science.
Computer Science
	Dr. Alex Borgida  borgida {at} cs.rutgers.edu Development of languages and models for knowledge representation and reasoning.
	Dr. Tina Eliassi-Rad  tina {at} eliassi.org Understanding behavior in complex networks through data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
	Dr. Haym Hirsh  hirsh {at} cs.rutgers.edu Machine Learning; Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Molecular Biology and in Automated Design.
	Dr. Casimir Kulikowski  kulikows {at} cs.rutgers.edu Image interpretation using planning and learning techniques; methods of theory formation for classification, configuration, planning and design problems with biomedical applications.
	Dr. Dimitris Metaxas  (Biomedical Engineering) dnm {at} cs.rutgers.edu American Sign Language and Gesture recognition from video, human identification and intent recognition from video, human computer interaction, shape and motion representation for recognition.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
	Dr. Kristin Dana  kdana {at} ece.rutgers.edu Computer vision and graphics; computational models for object appearance and image texture with applications in pattern recognition and scene rendering; optical systems for measurements of surface appearance.
	Dr. Peter Meer  meer {at} caip.rutgers.edu Application of modern statistical methods to computer vision and pattern recognition; probabilistic algorithms for machine vision problems; representation of semantical visual information.
Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
	Dr. Louis Sass  (Psychology) lsass {at} rci.rutgers.edu Philosophy and psychopathology (especially disorders of self); phenomenological philosophy; Wittgenstein; philosophical aspects of psychoanalysis.
La Salle University, Department of Psychology
	Dr. Sharon Lee Armstrong  armstrong {at} lasalle.edu Clinical Counseling Psychology
Linguistics
	Dr. Veneeta Dayal  dayal {at} rci.rutgers.edu Semantic theory and the syntax-semantics interface from a cross-linguistic perspective.
	Dr. Paul de Lacy  delacy {at} rutgers.edu The phonetics-phonology interface; articulatory and acoustic phonetics; phonological theory; field methods; markedness and universals.
	Dr. Viviane Deprez  deprez {at} rci.rutgers.edu Theoretical and comparative syntax of natural languages focusing on models of parameterization for deriving grammars from universal principles.
	Dr. Kenneth Safir  safir {at} ruccs.rutgers.edu Syntactic theory; explanation of anaphora crosslinguistically and across the boundaries of syntax, semantics, pragmatics and language acquisition; formal learnability theory as applied to language acquisition.
	Dr. Roger Schwarzschild  sroger {at} ruccs.rutgers.edu. Natural language semantics, semantics/pragmatics interface, recent work on intonational focus and on plurals.
Mathematics
	Dr. Eduardo Sontag  sontag {at} math.rutgers.edu Alternative models of computation and the mathematical theory of neural networks.
Philosophy
	Dr. Frances Egan  fegan {at} rci.rutgers.edu Philosophy of mind and psychology, the epistemology of science and the explanatory role of representational content in computational psychology.
	Dr. Branden Fitelson  branden {at} fitelson.org Logic and reasoning (both deductive and inductive), philosophy of science, and epistemology.
	Dr. Brian Loar  loar {at} rci.rutgers.edu Philosophy of Mind; philosophy of language; theories of mental content.
	Dr. Barry Loewer  loewer {at} rci.rutgers.edu Philosophical problems concerning intentionality and consciousness; issues of non-monotonic reasoning.
	Dr. Robert Matthews  rjm {at} rci.rutgers.edu Foundations of cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics; intentional states and propositional attitude ascriptions; learnability properties of linguistic theories.
	Dr. Susana Schellenberg This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Perceptual content and mental content more generally, attention, perceptual evidence, the relationship between the phenomenological and epistemological role of perceptual experience, the situation-dependency of perceptual experience, imagination, mental capacities
	Dr. Jason Stanley  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Phil. of Language, Phil. Logic, Epistemology, Early Analytic Phil.
Psychology
	Dr. Gretchen Chapman  gbc {at} rci.rutgers.edu Cognitive Psychology/Intradisciplinary Health
	Dr. Arnold Glass  aglass {at} rci.rutgers.edu Computer models of syntactic parsing and language comprehension.
	Dr. Judith Hudson  jhudson {at} rci.rutgers.edu Cognitive development; autobiographic memory and development of planning skills.
	Dr. Mary Rigdon  (Economics) mrigdon {at} rci.rutgers.edu Decision Sciences, Behavioral and Experimental Economics
	Dr. David Vicario  vicario {at} rci.rutgers.edu Neuroethology. Using behavioral, neurophysiological, and anatomical methods in songbirds to study sensory and motor processes that subserve vocal learning, including auditory memory, perception, and production of learned vocalizations.
	Dr. Terry Wilson  tewilson {at} rci.rutgers.edu Behavior therapy; social learning theory; treatment of eating disorders.
School of Communication and Information
	Dr. Nicholas Belkin  nick {at} belkin.rutgers.edu Human interaction with information, particularly in information retrieval.
	Dr. Jacek Gwizdka  jgwizdka {at} scils.rutgers.edu Cognitive factors in interaction with information (cognitive load, cognitive abilities), human-computer interaction, cognitive models, applications of neuroimaging to Information Science, neuroergonomics.
Spanish and Portuguese
	Dr. Nuria Sagarra This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Psycholinguistics: linguistic and cognitive factors modulating morphosyntactic processing in adult learners (e.g., executive control, cognitive load, language experience), using behavioral (eye tracking, self-paced reading) and electrophysiological (ERPs) techniques.
	Dr. Liliana Sanchez This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Bilingual acquisition of syntax. Convergence and crosslinguistic influence in syntactic representations in bilinguals
William Paterson University of New Jersey
	Dr. DanielKolak  (Department of Philosophy) kolakd {at} wpunj.edu Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic, Philosophy of Physics.