Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science
Multicultural marketing, Internet privacy, public health communication, and algorithmic justice
Psycholinguistics: morphological and syntactic structure. Language acquisition: representation of the soundwave; syntax; construction of the lexicon.
In Zenon's words: "Before moving to Rutgers I was at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, where I was professor in the departments of Psychology, Computer Science, Philosophy and Electrical Engineering and supervised graduate students in all these departments. I joined the Rutgers Psychology Department in 1991 and, at the request of the provost and the dean of the faculty of Arts and Science, established the Center for Cognitive Science (known as RuCCS, and pronounced /ruckus/) which I directed until 1997 before returning to full-time research. I have done research on, and have written about mental imagery, visual attention and cognitive architecture. Some of this work is thought to be of interest to philosophy as well as psychology. Some of my studies are visual attention and pre-attentive location indexing with application to visual tracking, perceptual- motor coordination, and teleoperation; empirical constraints on cognitive architecture, especially for imagery."
Representation and acquisition of lexical information; development of minimalist and optimality-based theories of phrase structure and functional projections.
Phonological theory and the cognitive science of language; interaction of universal constraints on representational well-formedness to define grammatical systems
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
Philosophy of mind and psychology, the epistemology of science and the explanatory role of representational content in computational psychology
Philosophical problems about psychology, including theoretical and experimental investigations of cognitive architecture, psycholinguistics and cognitive development
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
Nature and viability of commonsense (or "folk") psychology, moral cognition & moral reasoning and rationality
Human and machine vision, neural mechanisms in vision, image processing, imaging systems, and scientific visualization techniques; the mechanisms that underlie the perception of visual motion, stereopsis, texture, and the deployment of attention in vision
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.
Causal and quantitative reasoning, constraints on concept acquisition, and the role of informal environments (e.g., in cognitive development).
Study of the sensory cues, spatial representations and cognitive factors that guide patterns of smooth and saccadic eye.
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