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
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
Psycholinguistics: morphological and syntactic structure.
Language acquisition: representation of the soundwave; syntax; construction of the lexicon.
- Dr. Daniel Kolak-RuCCS
Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic, Philosophy of Physics
Center for Discrete Mathematics (DIMACS)
- Dr. Michael Leyton (Psychology)
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
Development of languages and models for knowledge representation and reasoning.
- Dr. Tina Eliassi-Rad
Understanding behavior in complex networks through data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
- Dr. Haym Hirsh
Machine Learning; Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Molecular Biology and in Automated Design.
- Dr. Casimir Kulikowski
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)
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
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
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)
Philosophy and psychopathology (especially disorders of self); phenomenological philosophy; Wittgenstein; philosophical aspects of psychoanalysis.
La Salle University, Department of Psychology
Linguistics
- Dr. Veneeta Dayal
Semantic theory and the syntax-semantics interface from a cross-linguistic perspective.
- Dr. Paul de Lacy
The phonetics-phonology interface; articulatory and acoustic phonetics; phonological theory; field methods; markedness and universals.
- Dr. Viviane Deprez
Theoretical and comparative syntax of natural languages focusing on models of parameterization for deriving grammars from universal principles.
- Dr. Kenneth Safir
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
Natural language semantics, semantics/pragmatics interface, recent work on intonational focus and on plurals.
Mathematics
- Dr. Eduardo Sontag
Alternative models of computation and the mathematical theory of neural networks.
Philosophy
- Dr. Frances Egan
Philosophy of mind and psychology, the epistemology of science and the explanatory role of representational content in computational psychology.
- Dr. Branden Fitelson
Logic and reasoning (both deductive and inductive), philosophy of science, and epistemology.
- Dr. Brian Loar
Philosophy of Mind; philosophy of language; theories of mental content.
- Dr. Barry Loewer
Philosophical problems concerning intentionality and consciousness; issues of non-monotonic reasoning.
- Dr. Robert Matthews
Foundations of cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics; intentional states and propositional attitude ascriptions; learnability properties of linguistic theories.
- Dr. Jason Stanley (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))
Phil. of Language, Phil. Logic, Epistemology, Early Analytic Phil.
Psychology
- Dr. Arnold Glass
Computer models of syntactic parsing and language comprehension.
- Dr. Judith Hudson
Cognitive development; autobiographic memory and development of planning skills.
- Dr. Mary Rigdon (Economics)
Decision Sciences, Behavioral and Experimental Economics
- Dr. David Vicario
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
Behavior therapy; social learning theory; treatment of eating disorders.
School of Communication and Information
- Dr. Jacek Gwizdka
Cognitive factors in interaction with information (cognitive load, cognitive abilities), human-computer interaction, cognitive models, applications of neuroimaging to Information Science, neuroergonomics.
William Paterson University of New Jersey
- Dr. Daniel Kolak (Department of Philosophy)
Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic, Philosophy of Physics.
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