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- Wayne
D. Gray earned his Ph.D. from U. C. Berkeley
in 1979. His first position was with the U. S. Army
Research Institute where he worked on tactical team
training (at the Monterey Field Unit) and later on
the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technology
to training for air-defense systems (at ARI-HQ Alexandria,
VA). He spent a post-doctoral year at Carnegie Mellon
University before joining the AI Laboratory of NYNEX'
Science & Technology Division. At NYNEX he applied
cognitive task analysis and cognitive modeling to
the design and evaluation of interfaces for large,
commercial telecommunications systems. His academic
career began at Fordham University and then moved
to George Mason University. He joined the Cognitive
Science Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
in 2002.
Professor Gray has been an active member of his
professional communities. In addition to much work
running small workshops and large conferences, he
has been a member of the Board of Governors for the
Cognitive Science Society where he served as Chair
and member of the Executive Committee from 2003–2006.
He also has been an Associate Editor for ACM
Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (1995–2003),
the Human Factors journal (1998–2006), the Cognitive
Systems Research journal (2003-present), as
well as the Cognitive Science journal (2005-present).
He is the Editor of the recent (2007) Oxford University
Press book, Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems.
In January 2007, he was unanimously elected by the
Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society
to serve as the Founding Executive Editor of topiCS.
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- Lawrence
W. Barsalou's research
addresses the nature of human knowledge, and its roles
in perception, memory, language, and thought. The current
theme of his research is that the human conceptual system
is grounded in the brain’s modal systems for perception,
action, and introspection. [Bio
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- Andrew Brook (D. Phil., Oxford)
is Chancellor's Professor Philosophy and Cognitive Science
and Director of the Institute of Cognitive Science, home
of Canada's first free-standing PhD programme in Cognitive
Science, at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He is
author or editor of eight books including Kant and the
Mind and Cognition and the Brain: The Philosophy and Neuroscience
Movement and about 80 other publications. He is a former
President of the Canadian Philosophical
Association.
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- Richard P. Cooper is Reader in Cognitive Science
at Birkbeck, University of London. He initially studied
mathematics and computer science at the University of
Newcastle, NSW, Australia, graduating with a B.Math.
in 1987, before completing a Ph.D. in computational linguistics
at the Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh,
in 1990. He was then employed as a postdoctoral research
fellow in the Department of Psychology, University College
London, before moving to Birkbeck in 1995. His previous
research focused mainly on tools and methodology of cognitive
modeling and on using modeling to understand neuropsychological
deficits. The former led to development of the COGENT
graphical cognitive modeling environment, while a key
outcome of the latter is a comprehensive model of routine
action selection that, when lesioned in different, theoretically
motivated, ways, can simulate a range of neurological
disorders of action selection. He remains involved in
research related to these projects, but is now also conducting
empirical and computational investigations of cognitive
control processes.
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- Stan Franklin holds the W. Harry Feinstone Interdisciplinary
Research Professorship in the Computer Science Department
at the University of Memphis, and is co-Director of its
Institute for Intelligent Systems. He sits on the editorial
board of several journals including the International
Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems, the International
Journal of Computational Intelligence Theory and Practice
(IJCITP), the International Journal
of Artificial General Intelligence, the Journal
of Mind Theory and the International
Journal of Machine Consciousness. He is a member
(for Artificial Intelligence) of the Advisory Board of
Polimetrica Publishers – Monza
MI Italy, and is a member of the IEEE AMD Technical Committee's
Task Force on Adaptive Motivational Systems. Stan's research
concerns conceptual and computational cognitive modeling,
and is carried out in collaboration with members of the
Cognitive Computing Research Group (CCRG), which he directs.
The current effort of the CCRG is toward the continuing
development of the LIDA model of cognition, a fully integrated
artificial cognitive system reaching across the full
spectrum of cognition, from low-level perception/action
to high-level reasoning. Extensively based on empirical
data from cognitive science and neuroscience, it is
meant to be a cognitive theory of everything.
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- Bruno
Galantucci received a Ph.D. in Cognitive
Science from the University of Padua in 2003 and a
Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University
of Connecticut in 2004. His first position was with
the Haskins
Laboratories where he worked as a research scientist
until 2007. In 2005–2006, he was a fellow of
the Center
for Interdisciplinary Research of the University
of Bielefeld. Currently, he is an assistant professor
at the department of psychology of Yeshiva University
and a research affiliate at the Haskins Laboratories.
Bruno Galantucci has conducted research on the psychology
of language, including speech perception, word recognition
and sentence processing. In the last few years, he
has focused on studying experimentally how humans establish
and develop novel forms of communication.
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- Robert
Goldstone received
a B.A. degree from Oberlin College in 1986 in cognitive
science, and a Ph.D. in psychology from University
of Michigan in 1991. Since 1991, Robert Goldstone has
been a professor in the psychological and brain sciences
department and cognitive science program at Indiana
University. His research interests include concept
learning and representation, perceptual learning, collective
behavior, and computational modeling of human cognition.
He was awarded two American Psychological Association
(APA) Young Investigator awards in 1995 for articles
appearing in the Journal of Experimental
Psychology, the
1996 Chase Memorial Award for Outstanding Young Researcher
in Cognitive Science, a 1997 James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical
Award, the 2000 APA Distinguished Scientific Award
for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the
area of Cognition and Human Learning, and a 2004 Troland
research award from the National
Academy of Sciences.
He was the executive editor of Cognitive
Science from
2001–2005, and associate editor of Psychonomic
Bulletin & Review from 1998-2000. He was elected
as a fellow of the Society of
Experimental Psychologists in 2004, and a fellow of the Cognitive
Science Society in 2006. In 2006 he became the director of the Indiana
University Cognitive Science Program. He was awarded
the title of Chancellor Professor in 2006.
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- Michael E. Gorman earned
a Masters (1978) and a Ph.D (1981) in Social Psychology
at the University of New Hampshire. His dissertation
focused on experimental studies of the role of confirmation
and disconfirmation in scientific thinking, which led
to a series of publications in the Quarterly Journal
of Experimental Psychology. He is currently a
Professor in the Department of Science, Technology & Society
at the University of Virginia, where he teaches courses
on ethics, invention, discovery and communication. His
research interests include experimental simulations of
science, described in Simulating Science (Indiana
University Press, 1992) and cognition, invention
and ethics, described in Transforming Nature (Kluwer
Academic Press, 1998). With support from the National
Science Foundation, he conducted a multi-year cognitive
study of the invention of the telephone whose results
appeared in Thinking and Reasoning. Gorman has
also edited a volume on Scientific and Technological
Thinking (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005).
He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal
of Psychology of Science and Technology. His current
research is in the kind of interdisciplinary trading
zones that will be needed for scientists, engineers and
other stakeholders to collaborate on the development
of new technologies.
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- Todd
M. Gureckis received a B.S. in
Electrical/Computer Engineering from The University
of Texas at Austin in 2001, and a Ph.D. in psychology,
also from University of Texas at Austin, in 2005.
From 2005–2007 he was a post-doctoral research associate
at Indiana University as part of IU’s NIH Cognitive
Modeling Training Grant. In 2008 he began as an Assistant
Professor of Psychology at New York University. His
research interests focus on concept and category
learning, the cognitive neuroscience to learning
and memory, and general computational approaches
to modeling human behavior.
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- Mary
Hegarty received her B.A. in 1980 and
her M.A. in 1982 from University College Dublin and
her Ph.D from Carnegie Mellon University in 1988. She
has been on the faculty of the Department of Psychology,
University of California, Santa Barbara since then.
Her research is on spatial thinking in complex activities
such as comprehension, reasoning and problem solving.
In research on mechanical reasoning and interpretation
of graphics, she uses eye-fixation data to trace
the processes involved in understanding visual-spatial
displays (diagrams, graphs and maps), and making
inferences from these displays. In her work on individual
differences, she studies large-scale spatial abilities
involved in navigation and learning the layout of
environments, as well as smaller-scale spatial abilities
involved in mental rotation, and perspective taking.
Her current research projects include understanding
the roles of internal and external visualizations
in mechanical reasoning, chemistry problem solving,
weather forecasting, and training of spatial skills
in the context of medical education. Her research
is funded by the Office of Naval
Research and the
National Science Foundation. Mary Hegarty
is a fellow of the American Psychological
Society and a former
Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. She is on the
editorial board of Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Learning, Memory and Cognition and Spatial
Cognition and Computation and is a member of
the governing board of the Cognitive
Science Society.
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- Robert
Jacobs received a B.A. degree in Psychology
from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. degree
in Computer and Information Science from the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst. He served as a Postdoctoral
Fellow in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in the
Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He is
currently Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences,
of Computer Science, and of the Center for Visual Science
at the University of Rochester where he directs the Computational
Cognition and Perception Lab. His research interests
are in combining experimental and computational approaches
to the study of human perception and cognition. His research
program addresses many topics, with a focus on learning
in visual and multisensory environments.
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- Gary Marcus is a Professor
of Psychology at New York University, where he directs
the NYU Infant Language Learning Center and studies the
foundations of cognitive science. His books include The
Algebraic Mind, an analysis of the strengths and weakness
of connectionist approaches to language and higher-level
cognition; The Birth of the Mind, a synthesis of cognitive
development, developmental biology, and developmental
neuroscience; and (forthcoming in 2008), Kluge:
The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind, an analysis of the limits
of human cognition, and their evolutionary origin. He
has also is the editor of The Norton
Psychology Reader,
and hehas written numerous article for professional journals
including Science, Nature, Cognition, Cognitive
Psychology,
Nature Neuroscience and Trends
in Cognitive Science.
In 2002–2003, he was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced
Study in Social and Behavioral Sciences.
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- Danielle
S. McNamara
is a Professor and Cognitive
Area Director at the University
of Memphis. Her academic background includes a
Linguistics B.A. (1982), a Clinical Psychology M.S.
(1989), and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology (1992;
UC-Boulder). Her
research involves the theoretical study of cognitive
processes as well as the application of cognitive principles
to educational practice. The overarching theme of her
research is to better understand cognitive processes
involved in memory, knowledge acquisition, and reading,
and to apply that understanding to educational practice
by creating and testing educational technologies (e.g.,
Coh-Metrix, iSTART). She has served on the editorial
boards of Discourse Processes, Memory & Cognition,
and JEP:LMC and currently serves as Associate Editor
for topiCS, the Cognitive
Science Journal, and the
Journal of Educational Psychology. She serves on a
standing review panel for the Institute
of Education Sciences (IES) and has served on numerous review panels
for IES, the National Science
Foundation (NSF), and
the National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development (NICHD). She is on the Governing Boards for the Society
for Text and Discourse and the Cognitive
Science Society.
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- Natalie
Sebanz is a lecturer
at the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham,
UK.
She studies the cognitive and neural processes underlying
human social interaction, with a special focus on joint
action. Having studied psychology and psycholinguistics
at Innsbruck University and University College London,
she spent three years at the Max Planck Institute for
Psychological Research in Munich, Germany, receiving
her Ph.D in 2004. For her dissertation, she received
the Heinz Heckhausen Young Scientist Award from the German
Psychological Society (DGP). After post-doctoral work
with Maggie Shiffrar at Rutgers University, NJ, Natalie
became an Assistant Professor at Rutgers in 2006. She
moved to the University of Birmingham, UK, in mid 2007.
Recently, Natalie received the European
Young Investigator (EURYI) Award by the European
Science Foundation to head a research group on Joint
Action.
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- Wendell Wallach is a lecturer
and consultant at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center
for Bioethics. Mr. Wallach was a founder and the President
of two computer consulting companies, Farpoint Solutions
and Omnia Consulting Inc. Among the clients served by Mr.
Wallach's companies were PepsiCo International, United
Aircraft, and the State of Connecticut. At Yale University
he chairs the working research group on Technology and
Ethics, has taught courses in Yale College, leads a seminar
for bioethics interns, and functions as a senior coordinator
for other working groups and projects. Moral
Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong, which Mr. Wallach co-authored
(with Colin Allen, Indiana University), will be published
by Oxford University Press in November 2008. His is presently
writing a book titled Cybersoul:
Self-Understanding in the Information Age, which explores the ways in which cognitive
science and new technologies are altering our understanding
of human decision making and ethics.
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