Faculty Members
Jointly appointed faculty members with a portion of their line in 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.
Biomedical Engineering
- Dr. Thomas Papathomas (Laboratory of Vision Research(RuCCS))
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)
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))
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.
Linguistics
- 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. 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.
Philosophy
- 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.
Psychology
- 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.
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