Faculty Members

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.

• Dr. Thomas Papathomas  (Laboratory of Vision Research(RuCCS))

Visual perception of motion, stereo (depth), and texture, and the development of neurophysiologically plausible computational models.

• Dr. Zenon Pylyshyn  (Psychology)

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.

• Dr. Doug DeCarlo  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

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. Matthew Stone  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

Reasoning systems for natural language generation and human-computer interaction; formal models of plans, context and mutual knowledge, and linguistic meaning and interpretation.

• Dr. Mark Baker  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

Comparative syntax, linguistic universals, semantic roles, Amerindian and African languages.

• Dr. Jane Grimshaw  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

Representation and acquisition of lexical information; development of minimalist and optimality-based theories of phrase structure and functional projections.

• Dr. Shigeto Kawahara  

Phonetics, phonology and their interface

• Dr. Alan Prince  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

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))

Language acquisition and development, semantics, syntax-semantics interface, pragmatics, prosody, representation and processing

• Dr. Bruce Tesar  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

Computational theory of learning, parsing, and their interactions. Optimality Theory. Dynamic programming, nonlinear optimization, connectionism.

• Dr. Jerry Fodor  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

Philosophical problems about psychology, including theoretical and experimental investigations of cognitive architecture, psycholinguistics and cognitive development.

• Dr. Alvin Goldman  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

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))

Philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.

• Dr. Brian McLaughlin  

The nature of cognitive architecture, including the connectionism/classicism debate; psychosemantics and the theory of meaning for mental representations.

• Dr. Stephen Stich  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

Nature and viability of commonsense (or "folk") psychology, moral cognition & moral reasoning and rationality.

• Dr. Jacob Feldman  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

Formal, computational and empirical studies of categorization, shape representation, grouping and perceptual inference in visual perception.

• Dr. Charles Gallistel  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

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))

Causal and quantitative reasoning, constraints on concept acquisition, and the role of informal environments (e.g., in cognitive development).

• Dr. Alan Leslie  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

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))

Specializes in psycholinguistics and research focuses on language acquisition and language processing.

• Dr. Manish Singh  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

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))

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))

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.