From its start, RuCCS has been committed to bringing together researchers across the core disciplines of cognitive science to investigate cognitive and linguistic development, and the nature of our early representations. In doing so, we seek to identify universals, the foundations of more complex representations, how the process of acquisition and learning unfolds, and a baseline against which we can make comparisons for developmental variation. The below core RuCCS faculty represent research in Development.
Affiliated Faculty
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Alan Leslie
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.
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Bruce Tesar
Computational models of language learning, phonology, Optimality Theory, the role of linguistics within cognitive science.
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Jenny Wang
Jenny Wang investigates the origins of our knowledge, how we master complicated concepts (such as mathematics), and how we learn about the world around us.
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Judith Hudson
Cognitive development; autobiographic memory and development of planning skills.
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Karin Stromswold
Language acquisition and learnability theory; the cognitive and neural bases of language, language acquisition, and language processing; studies of sentence processing using neuroimaging.
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Info Page | Personal Website | Language Acquisition and Processing Lab (LAPL) Website
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Kristen Syrett
Language acquisition and development, semantics, syntax-semantics interface, pragmatics, prosody, representation and processing
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Info Page | Personal Website | Laboratory for Developmental Language Studies (LDLS) Website
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Louis Sass
Philosophy and psychopathology (especially disorders of self); phenomenological philosophy; Wittgenstein; philosophical aspects of psychoanalysis.
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Mark Baker
Comparative syntax, linguistic universals, semantic roles, Amerindian and African languages.
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Michael Lewis
Dept. of Pediatrics - Child Health Institute of NJ (CHINJ)
Emotional development and the role of cognition. Cognition, attribution and psychopathology. Face-voice integration in ASD.
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Paul Pietroski
What are meanings? How are they related to concepts, grammatical structure, logical structure, and truth?
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Sharon Lee Armstrong
Clinical Counseling Psychology
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Terry Wilson
Behavior therapy; social learning theory; treatment of eating disorders.
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Tomas Sjöström
Interested in Decision Theory, Game Theory and Neuroeconomics.
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Info Page | Center for Economic Behavior, Institutions and Design (CEBID) Website
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Victoria Abraira
Trying to understand the cellular and synaptic substrates underlying innocuous touch perception by elucidating the functional organization of sensory neurons in mouse hairy skin and uncovering the neural codes of touch perception in the spinal cord dorsal horn.
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