Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS)
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Shannon Bryant
Post-Doc Affiliate
Shannon received her PhD in Linguistics from Harvard University. She works at the interface of syntax and semantics, with a particular interest in the interplay between language and concepts. Drawing from a mix of experimental methods and theoretical perspectives, her research addresses questions like: How does the architecture of human language reflect the way we mentally model the world around us? How do the grammatical choices we encounter help shape the mental models we build? What are the basic building blocks of linguistic meaning, and how are these building blocks bundled up across languages? Specific topics she has worked on include binding and reflexivity, argument structure, clausal complementation, and attitude reports.
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James Preston Lennon
Postdoctoral Associate
Preston received his Ph.D. in philosophy from The Ohio State University in 2022. His research interests are in the philosophy of mind, with a focus on conscious thought. His research defends a conception of thoughts as they seem to be from the first-person perspective, as events in the stream of consciousness, and this work has appeared in Erkenntnis, Inquiry, Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind, and Synthese. He is also interested in applied ethical issues arising in sports.
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Carolyn Lutken
Postdoctoral Associate
Jane is a linguist interested in the underlying mechanisms of language acquisition, particularly of complex syntax. Her research investigates the role of working memory and planning in production and comprehension of complex structures. She also uses Optimality Theory in her cross-linguistic investigations of variation in complex questions and is currently focusing on the use of different structures in Hindi, Hungarian, German, and English.
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Paul Robinson
Post-Doc Affiliate
Paul holds MSc degrees in Philosophy of Science (London School of Economics) and Cognitive and Decision Sciences (University College London) and in 2020 he received his PhD in Philosophy with Interdisciplinary Specialization in Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Ohio State University). His research focus is on cognition, rationality, and human origins. He has published on the nature of inference and his current work investigates cognitive biases and the evolution of human reasoning. The ultimate goal of his research is to advance an interdisciplinary understanding of human nature that can be usefully applied in real world settings such as conflict resolution and deliberative democracy initiatives.
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Joseph Sommer
Post-Doc Affiliate
Joseph received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Rutgers University. He is interested in the bounded rationality of cognition under computational constraints and a broad intersection of fields relevant to belief including the philosophy of mental representation, epistemology, and the psychology of persuasion, reasoning, and judgment and decision making. His current work aims at understanding the cognitive mechanisms underlying belief, including how beliefs are updated (or not) in response toevidence.
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Post-Doc Affiliates
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Natalie Batmanian
Post-Doc Affiliate, Visiting Scholar
Language Acquisition and Processing Lab Graduate
Dr. Batmanian is an alumna of Rutgers University’s Cognitive Psychology program. She has returned to her intellectual home after spending half of her career in academic research and the other half in higher education administration. Currently, she is working on publications on the acquisition and processing of morphosytax of Turkish, an agglutinative language with flexible word order, by adult and child speakers of Turkish. She also plans to contribute to research on the processing and acquisition of English auxiliaries by second language learners, building on her postdoctoral work.
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Vicky Froyen
Post-Doc Affiliate, Laboratory for Experimental Psychology, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Visual Cognition Lab Graduate
Computational modeling and empirical studies of perceptual grouping and inference.
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