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Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Department of
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 | Marilyn Adams
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Department of
|  | James Anderson
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Department of
Jim Anderson does research in the areas of cognition and cognitive development; theoretical and computational models; computational models of learning, memory and neural development; theory of computation; and artificial intelligence and robotics. |  | David Badre
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Department of
|  | Sheila Blumstein
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Department of
My research is concerned with delineating the neural basis of language and the processes and mechanisms involved in speaking and understanding. The research methodologies used include behavioral measures of aphasic patients correlated with structural measures of neuropathology and functional neuroimaging of normal subjects. I am interested in how the continuous acoustic signal is transformed by perceptual and neural mechanisms into the sound structure of language, how the sound structure of language maps to the lexicon (mental dictionary), and how the mental dictionary is organized for the purposes of language comprehension and production. |  | Katherine Demuth
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Department of
I study how children learn language. Much of my work focuses on teasing apart the biological and environmental factors that contribute to the process of how children learn to speak. To do that, I examine children's comparative acquisition of specific linguistic structures and how this relates to the input children hear. My current research integrates insights from linguistic theory, language processing, mathematical modeling, and children with language delay (e.g. phonological delay, specific language impairment) in addressing the nature of children's linguistic representations and how these develop over time. |  | Fulvio Domini
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Department of
Fulvio Domini is interested in how human survival capabilities depend on a fundamental skill of the visual system: interpreting retinal images in order to extract knowledge about the 3D structure of the surrounding environment. He investigates what kind of mathematical analysis of different properties of retinal images can be considered biologically plausible. In several published journal articles he presented empirical results that challenge the common held hypothesis according to which the visual system is composed of independent modules providing a unique and veridical 3D representation of projected objects. |  | Michael Frank
Psychology, Department of
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Department of
Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Department of
|  | Laurie Heller
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Department of
My auditory research examines the human ability to understand what events are happening in the environment through sound. Perceptual experiments address whether there are auditory prototypes that represent different event attributes, whether those prototypes can be used to predict psychological phenomena such as a preference for exaggeration or the ability to recognize caricatures, and whether audition plays a significant role in the perception of multi-modal events. This basic research will relate psychological performance to acoustic properties and high-level auditory information. The results of this research may have potential to enhance hearing aids and auditory displays. |  | Pauline Jacobson
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Department of
My research area is within theoretical linguistics, and is mainly concerned with constructing formal models of the semantics and syntax of natura l language — and in particular on the way that the syntax and the semantics interact. My work is carried out within the tradition of model-theoretic ("formal") semantics, combined with a Categorial Grammar syntax. Categorial Grammar is a theory that posits a transparent relationship between the combinatory operations used in the syntax and in the semantics — and as such makes a very simple and elegant claim about how these two systems interact. |  | Mark Johnson
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Department of
My research area, computational linguistics, is a truly interdisciplinary subject: it is a scientific discipline with important industrial and engineering applications. Intellectually it draws primarily on linguistics and computer science, and these days it draws heavily on statistics and machine learning. My own work focuses on syntactic parsing, the detection and correction of speech errors, and explicit computational models of the acquisition of phonology and syntax. |  | Philip Lieberman
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Department of
I study the evolution of human linguistic and cognitive ability. In the 1970s my focus was on the evolution of the vocal anatomy that makes human speech possible. My current work concerns the neural circuits that regulate syntax, cognition as well as speech production and other aspects of motor control. These circuits, which involve the basal ganglia and other subcortical structures, are related through their evolutionary history. My research also involves applications such as voice monitoring cognition and emotion, and the assessment of Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases, and of verbal apraxia and its genetic bases in children. |  | James Morgan
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Department of
I am interested in how the speech that infants and young children hear affects early language acquisition. My current research focuses on complementary questions of the nature of such speech, particularly with regard to properties that may cue aspects of language structure, and the nature of early perceptual capacities for extracting and representing the structural information that is cued. |  | Julie Sedivy
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Department of
I research human language understanding. In particular, I am interested in the process by which humans assign meaning to words and phrases. Linguists know that as humans process language we make decisions about the words millisecond by millisecond. For example, when someone pronounces the first syllable of "elephant," the human mind considers and discards words with the same first syllable, such as "eloquent" and "elevator," even before hearing the rest of the word. Given that moment-by-moment decision process, how do humans cope with uncertainty at every stage? |  | Steven Sloman
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Department of
I study how people think in the face of uncertainty. My goal is to understand the flexibility of cognition - how people are able to think effectively in entirely new situations with little prior knowledge.
My working hypothesis is that people do this by combining general logic-like rules with sophisticated memories. My main approach is to develop mathematical theories for explaining activities like reasoning, categorization, and judgments of probability. I test these theories in my lab by examining people's ability to answer simple questions and name things. |  | David Sobel
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Department of
How do children represent and learn new pieces of causal knowledge? Are the processes that children use different from those of adults? I have two approaches to these questions. In one line of research, I examine the representation and mechanisms adults and children use for causal learning. In the other, I examine particular domains of knowledge (usually psychological knowledge, such as pretending, learning, and belief) and map out children's understanding of that domain. |  | Kathryn Spoehr
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Department of
Kathy Spoehr's primary research focus is twofold. A new project, funded by the National Center for Education Statistics, is making use of insights from cognitive science and computational linguistics to inform the development of a new set of tasks to assess vocabulary knowledge at the national level for the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL). The second area of research focuses on the cognitive principles underlying optimal design for and use of computer-based learning environments. This work investigates how multimedia technology can improve teaching and learning. |  | Michael Tarr
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Department of
Research interests are: visual object and face representation and recognition; perceptual categorization, learning, and expertise; how cognitive and perceptual knowledge interact; how the effects of illumination affect object perception and recognition; and visual navigation and scene representation in virtual environments. |  | William Warren
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Department of
Bill Warren takes an ecological approach to problems of perception and action, which aims to see how much of the organization in behavior can be explained "for free" on the basis of informational and physical constraints in natural environments. His current research focuses on the visual content of locomotion. |
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