Cognitive Scientists (Subscribe)
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Zhang, Jiajie
http://acad88.sahs.uth.tmc.edu/
External representations; human-computer interaction; human factors; medical informatics
van Diepen, Paul
Scene perception, eye movements, chronometry of information processing (no longer active in cognitive research).
Turner, Mark
Professor and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. Research focus is to study how human thought processes are different than other species with an emphasis on blending.
Thomas, Nigel
http://www.imagery-imagination.com/
The philosophical, scientific, and historical study of imagination and mental imagery, and their role in consciousness and cognition [Cal State LA].
Sun, Ron
http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun/
Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, and connectionist models and hybrid systems. Computational approaches to consciousness, commonsense reasoning, learning and skill acquisition in humans and machines.
Scaruffi, Piero
http://www.scaruffi.com/cogn.html
Information about Scaruffi's research and teaching activities in Cognitive Science, Psychology of Consciousness and Philosophy of Mind, and links to his papers, and to his annotated bibliography of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, neurobiology, artificial life, linguistics, neural networks, connectionism, cognitive psychology, and consciousness.
Pylyshyn, Zenon W.
http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/faculty/pylyshyn.html
Visual attention and preattention, critique of "pictorial" theories of mental imagery, foundational issues in the computational theory of the architecture of cognition.
O'Regan, J. Kevin
http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/
Visual perception: "change blindness" (nice animated demos), active perception, eye movements, consciousness, and "the world as external memory".
Norman, Don
Author of The Design of Everyday Things, list of books and articles in human-centered design.
Minsky, Marvin
http://www.media.mit.edu/people/minsky/
One of the pioneers and most creative thinkers of Artificial Intelligence research.
Loftus, Elizabeth F.
http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/
Psychology of memory, false memory, eyewitness testimony.
Kirsh, David
http://adrenaline.ucsd.edu/kirsh/
Representation in everyday activity, cognitive complexity.
Jrvilehto, Timo
http://wwwedu.oulu.fi/homepage/tjarvile/indexe.htm
Finnish Psychologist with interests in psychophysiology, preception, education, and "the theory of the organism-environment system".
Gregory, Richard
http://www.richardgregory.org/index.htm
Influential researcher on perception and perceptual illusion. Site gives access to selected publications as well as his CV and animated demonstrations of significant illusions.
Cziko, Gary
http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/g-cziko/
Educational psychology. Darwinian approaches. (Univ. of Illinois, USA)
Cotterill, Rodney M.J.
http://www.fys.dtu.dk/English/About_us/Staff.aspx?lg=showcommon&id=427&type=publications
Neurophysiology of consciousness, considered as an active process. Implications of this view for understanding autism. (Danish Technical University, Denmark)
Coneural Center for Cognitive and Neural Studies
Research center for computational embodied neuroscience. Director: Razvan Florian.
Cave, Kyle R.
http://people.umass.edu/kcave/
Cognitive psychology of visual cognition, including attention, imagery, and object recognition.
Calvin, William H.
Theoretical neurophysiologist and popularizer. Author of "The Cerebral Code," "How Brains Think," "Conversations with Neil's Brain" and "A Brain for All Seasons," amongst other works.