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  • Aloimonos, Yiannis
    Artificial Intelligencier prominent in active vision research.
  • Anderson, John R.
    One of the leading pioneers of the field, and, inventor of the ACT unified theory of cognition (Carnegie-Mellon Univ., USA).
  • Ballard, Dana H.
    "Animate vision". Computational theories of the brain with emphasis on human vision. (Univ. of Rochester, USA)
  • Barsalou, Lawrence W.
    Perceptual bases of cognition, situated conceptualization, dynamic representations of concepts, frames, category learning, event memory.
  • Bearden, J. Neil
    Graduate student at the Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
  • Brooks, Rodney A.
    Embodied cognition in autonomous robots. (MIT, USA).
  • 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.
  • Cave, Kyle R.
    Cognitive psychology of visual cognition, including attention, imagery, and object recognition. Southampton University, UK.
  • Cotterill, Rodney M.J.
    Neurophysiology of consciousness, considered as an active process. Implications of this view for understanding autism. (Danish Technical University, Denmark)
  • Cziko, Gary
    Educational psychology. Darwinian approaches. (Univ. of Illinois, USA)
  • Dunbar, Kevin
    Scientific discovery and reasoning (especially in molecular biology); visual, causal, abductive, and analogical reasoning; gender differences in reasoning; science education; mental models; invivo cognition; visualization. (Dartmouth College.)
  • Eaton, Thomas
    Graduate student at the University of Connecticut, working on the relationship between reading development, phonology, and motor coordination.
  • French, Robert M.
    Connectionism and philosophy of cognitive science (Univ. de Liège, Belgium)
  • Harnad, Stevan
    Categorical perception, Cognitive Theory. Editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences and the e-journal Psycoloquy, and a strong advocate of online publication, sponsoring the online archive CogPrints. The page also gives access to threaded discussions between Harnad and students.(Univ. of Southampton, UK)
  • Hayhoe, Mary M.
    Active vision and visuo-motor coordination in natural situations, robot vision.
  • Järvilehto, Timo
    Finnish Psychologist with interests in psychophysiology, preception, education, and "the theory of the organism-environment system".
  • Johnson-Laird, Philip N.
    Psychology of reasoning and logical thinking, mental models, AI.
  • Kirsh, David
    Representation in everyday activity, cognitive complexity.
  • Koch, Christoph
    Neuroscience and consciousness.
  • Kosslyn, Stephen M.
    Mental imagery, perception.
  • Kubovy, Michael
    Perceptual grouping.
  • Loftus, Elizabeth F.
    Psychology of memory, false memory, eyewitness testimony.
  • McCarthy, John
    One of the pioneers of Artificial Intelligence research. Creator of LISP.
  • Minsky, Marvin
    One of the pioneers and most creative thinkers of Artificial Intelligence research.
  • Modestino, Ed
    A graduate student in the Complex Systems and Brain Sciences program at Florida Atlantic University, working on neuroimaging of complex systems and neural networks of cognition.
  • Moravec, Hans
    Mobile robots and their psychology.
  • O'Regan, J. Kevin
    Visual perception: "change blindness" (nice animated demos), active perception, eye movements, consciousness, and "the world as external memory".
  • Pylyshyn, Zenon W.
    Visual attention and preattention, critique of "pictorial" theories of mental imagery, foundational issues in the computational theory of the architecture of cognition.
  • Sayan, Omer Fatih
    Graduate student at University of Osnabrück, Germany. Interested in emotion and cognition, human machine interaction, mental models, unconscious processes, dual processes of thought.
  • Scaruffi, Piero
    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.
  • Smolensky, Paul
    A leading researcher in connectionism.
  • Sun, Ron
    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.
  • Thomas, Nigel J.T.
    Imagination, mental imagery, consciousness. Curriculum Vitae with links to published and unpublished writings.
  • van Diepen, Paul
    Scene perception, eye movements, chronometry of information processing (no longer active in cognitive research).
  • Varela, Francisco
    Bibliography and online articles by this distinguished Consciousness researcher, phenomenologist, and neuroscientist. In both French and English.
  • Zhang, Jiajie
    External representations; human-computer interaction; human factors; medical informatics
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