Historical and Emeritus Faculty

Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS)

Lila Gleitman - In Memoriam

Psycholinguistics: morphological and syntactic structure. Language acquisition: representation of the soundwave; syntax; construction of the lexicon.

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Zenon Pylyshyn - In Memoriam

Studies of 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.

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Alex Borgida

Improved software development techniques, in areas involving databases or requirements engineering. Since such systems maintain models of some (users' beliefs about) reality, my approach is usually based on the use of knowledge representation and reasoning techniques/logics. As a result, I sometime contribute to KR&R research to achieve my goals.

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L. Thorne McCarty

Department of Computer Science.

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Jerry Fodor - In Memoriam

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

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Alvin Goldman

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.

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Frances Egan

Philosophy of mind and psychology, the epistemology of science and the explanatory role of representational content in computational psychology.

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Thomas Papathomas

His research interests are in human and machine vision, neural mechanisms in vision, image processing, imaging systems, and scientific visualization techniques. He is investigating the mechanisms that underlie the perception of visual motion, stereopsis, texture, and the deployment of attention in vision.

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Charles Randy Gallistel

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.

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Rochel Gelman

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

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Charles Schmidt

Professor of Psychology and Computer Science, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Iowa

Human and machine planning and plan recognition; human and machine problem solving and learning; human-computer interaction; discourse. Problem reformulation and reduction, planning, plan recognition, learning, and person-machine interaction.