Executive Committee Members

The policies of the Center are set in consultation with the Executive Committee which has representation from several participating departments.

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.

 

Biomedical Engineering
	Dr. Thomas Papathomas  (Laboratory of Vision Research(RuCCS)) papathom {at} rci.rutgers.edu Visual perception of motion, stereo (depth), and texture, and the development of neurophysiologically plausible computational models.
Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)
	Dr. Zenon Pylyshyn  (Psychology) zenon {at} ruccs.rutgers.edu Studies of visual attention and preattentive location indexing with application to visual tracking, perceptual- motor coordination, and teleoperation; empirical constraints on cognitive architecture, especially for imagery.
Computer Science
	Dr. Doug DeCarlo  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) decarlo {at} cs.rutgers.edu Application of computer vision to human-computer interaction (in particular, through the non-intrusive tracking of a user's activities).Perceptual issues in computer graphics.
	Dr. Haym Hirsh  hirsh {at} cs.rutgers.edu Machine Learning; Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Molecular Biology and in Automated Design.
	Dr. Michael L Littman  mlittman {at} cs.rutgers.edu Research in machine learning examines algorithms for decision making under uncertainty.
	Dr. Matthew Stone  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) mdstone {at} rutgers.edu Reasoning systems for natural language generation and human-computer interaction; formal models of plans, context and mutual knowledge, and linguistic meaning and interpretation.
Linguistics
	Dr. Mark Baker  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) mabaker {at} ruccs.rutgers.edu Comparative syntax, linguistic universals, semantic roles, Amerindian and African languages.
	Dr. Paul de Lacy  delacy {at} rutgers.edu The phonetics-phonology interface; articulatory and acoustic phonetics; phonological theory; field methods; markedness and universals.
	Dr. Jane Grimshaw  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) grimshaw {at} ruccs.rutgers.edu Representation and acquisition of lexical information; development of minimalist and optimality-based theories of phrase structure and functional projections.
	Dr. Shigeto Kawahara  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) kawahara {at} rci.rutgers.edu Phonetics, phonology and their interface
	Dr. Alan Prince  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) prince {at} ruccs.rutgers.edu Phonological theory and the cognitive science of language; interaction of universal constraints on representational well-formedness to define grammatical systems.
	Dr. Kristen Syrett  (Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS)) k-syrett {at} ruccs.rutgers.edu Language acquisition and development, semantics, syntax-semantics interface, pragmatics, prosody, representation and processing
	Dr. Bruce Tesar  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) tesar {at} rutgers.edu Computational models of language learning, phonology, Optimality Theory, the role of linguistics within cognitive science.
Philosophy
	Dr. Jerry Fodor  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) fodor {at} ruccs.rutgers.edu Philosophical problems about psychology, including theoretical and experimental investigations of cognitive architecture, psycholinguistics and cognitive development.
	Dr. Alvin Goldman  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) goldman {at} philosophy.rutgers.edu Simulationist versus theory-theory approaches to mindreading, including reading emotion in faces; self-knowledge, self-report, and consciousness; descriptive and normative issues in reasoning; folk ontology.
	Dr. Ernest Lepore  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) lepore {at} ruccs.rutgers.edu Philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.
	Dr. Brian McLaughlin  brianmc {at} rci.rutgers.edu The nature of cognitive architecture, including the connectionism/classicism debate; psychosemantics and the theory of meaning for mental representations.
	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.
	Dr. Stephen Stich  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) sstich {at} ruccs.rutgers.edu Nature and viability of commonsense (or "folk") psychology, moral cognition & moral reasoning and rationality.
Psychology
	Dr. Jacob Feldman  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) jacob {at} ruccs.rutgers.edu Formal, computational and empirical studies of categorization, shape representation, grouping and perceptual inference in visual perception.
	Dr. Charles Gallistel  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) galliste {at} ruccs.rutgers.edu Fully automated, highly diagnostic behavioral screens for abilities in learning and memory in the mouse and zebra fish. Also, animal cognition: spatial, temporal, and numerical learning and reasoning in animals.
	Dr. Rochel Gelman  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) rgelman {at} ruccs.rutgers.edu Causal and quantitative reasoning, constraints on concept acquisition, and the role of informal environments (e.g., in cognitive development).
	Dr. Eileen Kowler  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) kowler {at} rci.rutgers.edu Study of the sensory cues, spatial representations and cognitive factors that guide patterns of smooth and saccadic eye.
	Dr. Alan Leslie  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) aleslie {at} ruccs.rutgers.edu Conceptual development and the representation of the physical world, of Agency, and of "theory of mind" in infants and preschoolers; also their impairment in autism.
	Dr. Julien Musolino  (Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS)) julienm {at} ruccs.rutgers.edu Specializes in psycholinguistics and research focuses on language acquisition and language processing.
	Dr. Manish Singh  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) manish {at} ruccs.rutgers.edu Formal and empirical study of visual object and surface representations. Part-based description of object shape; Computation of surface structure under partial occlusion and transparency; Visual attention.
	Dr. Karin Stromswold  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) kstrom {at} ruccs.rutgers.edu Language acquisition and learnability theory; the cognitive and neural bases of language, language acquisition, and language processing; studies of sentence processing using neuroimaging.
	Dr. Elizabeth Torres  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) ebtorres {at} rci.rutgers.edu My interest lies in the study of voluntary actions in general and the emergence of symbolic intelligence from them. In particular, I have been studying natural voluntary arm movements in the context of reaching for and grasping an object, obstacle avoidance, the acquisition and retrieval of a motor program, and more recently on the performance of a parietal patient and of patients with Parkinson's disease. I am also doing research on autism.
Psychology-Newark
	Dr. Stephen Jose Hanson  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) jose {at} psychology.rutgers.edu Research focuses on learning, categorization, connectionist models, neural networks, cognitive, mathematical and computational modeling.
UMDNJ
	Dr. Michael Lewis  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)) lewis {at} umdnj.edu Emotional development and the role of cognition. Cognition, attribution and psychopathology.