ICBS Faculty
The current faculty members of ICBS (as of October, 2003) are listed below, indicating the institution from which they received their Ph.D., their university position, and their research interests. If you are an ICBS faculty member, you can add or modify your listing online.
Dor Abrahamson Ph.D. (Northwestern University)
Assistant Professor of Education
Research interests: The nature of intuitive and formal mathematical reasoning and their dialectical roles in design, teaching, and learning; Theory of design for mathematics education; Educational technology; Philosophy of mathematics.
Web page: Dor's GSE Faculty Webpage
Research interests: The nature of intuitive and formal mathematical reasoning and their dialectical roles in design, teaching, and learning; Theory of design for mathematics education; Educational technology; Philosophy of mathematics.
Web page: Dor's GSE Faculty Webpage
Maneesh Agarwalla
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Martin S. Banks (Univerity of Minnesota)
Professor of Vision Sciences, Chair of Vision Science
Research interests: the use of motion and stereoscopic information to determine the spatial layout of the visible environment and one's motion through that environment, and the development of the human visual system.
Web page: Lab website
Research interests: the use of motion and stereoscopic information to determine the spatial layout of the visible environment and one's motion through that environment, and the development of the human visual system.
Web page: Lab website
Roy Caldwell
Professor of Integrative Biology
John Campbell (Oxford Univ.)
Professor of Philosophy
Research interests: Theory of meaning, metaphysics, and the philosophy of psychology. Currently working on causation in psychology. Author of Past, Space and Self (1994) and Reference and Consciousness (2002).
Web page: John Campbell webpage
Research interests: Theory of meaning, metaphysics, and the philosophy of psychology. Currently working on causation in psychology. Author of Past, Space and Self (1994) and Reference and Consciousness (2002).
Web page: John Campbell webpage
Jose M. Carmena (University of Edinburgh)
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Cognitive Science Program
Research interests: Brain-machine interfaces; neural mechanisms of sensorimotor control and learning; neural ensemble computation; neuroprosthetics.
Web page: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~carmena/
Research interests: Brain-machine interfaces; neural mechanisms of sensorimotor control and learning; neural ensemble computation; neuroprosthetics.
Web page: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~carmena/
Melinda Y. Chen (U.C. Berkeley - Linguistics)
Assistant Professor of Dept. of Gender and Women's Studies
Research interests: Research interests: Culture and cognition, critical linguistics, cognitive grammar, emotion, paradigms of cognitive interdisciplinarity
Research interests: Research interests: Culture and cognition, critical linguistics, cognitive grammar, emotion, paradigms of cognitive interdisciplinarity
Mark D'Esposito M.D. (State University of New York, Syracuse College of Medicine)
Professor of Psychology
Research interests: working memory and frontal lobe function, functional MRI, cognitive neuroscience.
Web page: D'Esposito Lab
Research interests: working memory and frontal lobe function, functional MRI, cognitive neuroscience.
Web page: D'Esposito Lab
Terrence W. Deacon
Professor of Anthropology
Research interests: comparative anatomy, prefrontal cortex, evolution of language
Research interests: comparative anatomy, prefrontal cortex, evolution of language
Andrea A. diSessa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Professor of Education, Associate Dean of the School of Education
Research interests: instruction in physics and mathematics, computers in education, and genetic epistemology. Author of Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics (with Hal Abelson).
Web page: School of Education website, Faculty
Research interests: instruction in physics and mathematics, computers in education, and genetic epistemology. Author of Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics (with Hal Abelson).
Web page: School of Education website, Faculty
Hubert Dreyfus (Harvard University)
Professor of the Graduate School of Philosophy
Research interests: mental representation, limits of artificial intelligence, skill acquisition, and development of expertise. Author of What Computers Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason (1972); What Computers Still Can't Do (1992); Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time (1991); and co-author (with Stuart E. Dreyfus) of Mind over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer (1986).
Research interests: mental representation, limits of artificial intelligence, skill acquisition, and development of expertise. Author of What Computers Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason (1972); What Computers Still Can't Do (1992); Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time (1991); and co-author (with Stuart E. Dreyfus) of Mind over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer (1986).
Susan Ervin-Tripp (University of Michigan)
Professor of Psychology
Research interests: children's acquisition of language, discourse structure, and bilingualism. Author of Language Acquisition and Communicative Choice and Child Discourse.
Web page: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ervintrp
Research interests: children's acquisition of language, discourse structure, and bilingualism. Author of Language Acquisition and Communicative Choice and Child Discourse.
Web page: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ervintrp
Jerome A. Feldman (Carnegie-Mellon University)
Professor of Computer Science
Research interests: massively parallel computation and its application to artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Editor of Connectionist Models and their Applications (with David Waltz).
Web page: Jerry Feldman's web page
Research interests: massively parallel computation and its application to artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Editor of Connectionist Models and their Applications (with David Waltz).
Web page: Jerry Feldman's web page
Branden Fitelson
Professor of Philosophy
Research interests: Inductive, deductive, and causal inference, as well as Bayesianism and rational choice theory. Currently writing a book on inductive logic and evidential support.
Web page: Branden's website.
Research interests: Inductive, deductive, and causal inference, as well as Bayesianism and rational choice theory. Currently writing a book on inductive logic and evidential support.
Web page: Branden's website.
Alison Gopnik Ph.D (Oxford University)
Professor of Psychology, Professor
Research interests: Alison Gopnik studies cognitive development in young children in relation to classical philosophical questions about epistemology. She is coauthor of two books "Words, Thoughts and Theories" and "The Scientist in the Crib". In her most recent work, she has been using the Causal Graphical Models or "Bayes net" formalism as a model for causal learning in young children. This work is summarized in A.Gopnik, C. Glymour, D. Sobel, L. Schulz, T. Kushnir, & D. Danks (2004). A theory of causal learning in children: Causal maps and Bayes nets. Psychological Review, 111, 1, 1-31.
Web page: Research
Research interests: Alison Gopnik studies cognitive development in young children in relation to classical philosophical questions about epistemology. She is coauthor of two books "Words, Thoughts and Theories" and "The Scientist in the Crib". In her most recent work, she has been using the Causal Graphical Models or "Bayes net" formalism as a model for causal learning in young children. This work is summarized in A.Gopnik, C. Glymour, D. Sobel, L. Schulz, T. Kushnir, & D. Danks (2004). A theory of causal learning in children: Causal maps and Bayes nets. Psychological Review, 111, 1, 1-31.
Web page: Research
Tom Griffiths
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science Program
Ervin Hafter (University of Texas)
Professor of Psychology
Research interests: auditory perception and psychophysics, and attention.
Web page: Psychology Department website. Research
Research interests: auditory perception and psychophysics, and attention.
Web page: Psychology Department website. Research
Evan Heit (Stanford University)
Professor of Cognitive Science, UC Merced
Research interests: Psychology and cognitive science focusing on categorization, inductive reasoning, and memory.
Web page: http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/eheit
Research interests: Psychology and cognitive science focusing on categorization, inductive reasoning, and memory.
Web page: http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/eheit
Carla L. Hudson Kam (University of Rochester)
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research interests: language acquisition: role of input in acquisition, relationship to language change, source and nature of adult-child differences in acquisition
Web page: Language and Learning Lab
Research interests: language acquisition: role of input in acquisition, relationship to language change, source and nature of adult-child differences in acquisition
Web page: Language and Learning Lab
Richard Ivry (University of Oregon)
Professor of Psychology, director of the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Research interests: sensorimotor control, temporal information processing, neuropsychology, attention and executive control.
Web page: Ivrylab
Research interests: sensorimotor control, temporal information processing, neuropsychology, attention and executive control.
Web page: Ivrylab
Lucia Jacobs (Princeton University)
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Research interests: Evolution of learning and brain organization, cognitive neuroscience of spatial cognition in food-storing mammals, animal models of dementia.
Research interests: Evolution of learning and brain organization, cognitive neuroscience of spatial cognition in food-storing mammals, animal models of dementia.
Paul Kay (Harvard University)
Professor of Linguistics
Research interests: color naming, syntax, semantics, pragmatics. Author of Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution (with Brent Berlin); Words and the Grammar of Context.
Web page: http://icsi.berkeley.edu/~kay
Research interests: color naming, syntax, semantics, pragmatics. Author of Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution (with Brent Berlin); Words and the Grammar of Context.
Web page: http://icsi.berkeley.edu/~kay
John Kihlstrom (University of Pennsylvania)
Professor of Psychology
Research interests: cognition in personal and social contexts, unconscious mental processes, memory, hypnosis, social cognition, personality, experimental psychopathology, health cognition and behavior.
Web page: Psychology Department Website
Research interests: cognition in personal and social contexts, unconscious mental processes, memory, hypnosis, social cognition, personality, experimental psychopathology, health cognition and behavior.
Web page: Psychology Department Website
Dan Klein
Stanley Klein
Professor of Vision Sciences
Research interests: brain imaging with high temporal resolution, visual psychophysics, vision modeling including decision stage effects.
Research interests: brain imaging with high temporal resolution, visual psychophysics, vision modeling including decision stage effects.
Robert Knight M.D. (Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL)
Professor of Psychology
Research interests: attention and memory; neuropsychology and physiology; cognitive neuroscience.
Web page: Knight Lab Website
Research interests: attention and memory; neuropsychology and physiology; cognitive neuroscience.
Web page: Knight Lab Website
George Lakoff (Indiana University)
Professor of Linguistics
Research interests: cognitive linguistics. Author of Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind. President of International Cognitive Linguistics Association
Web page: Linguistics Department website
Research interests: cognitive linguistics. Author of Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind. President of International Cognitive Linguistics Association
Web page: Linguistics Department website
Tania Lombrozo
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research interests: Cognitive psychology of explanation and understanding; concepts, theories, and causality; moral reasoning; philosophy and psychology
Web page: Concepts & Cognition Lab Webpage
Research interests: Cognitive psychology of explanation and understanding; concepts, theories, and causality; moral reasoning; philosophy and psychology
Web page: Concepts & Cognition Lab Webpage
Jitendra Malik (Stanford University)
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Research interests: computer vision and artificial intelligence
Web page: http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~malik
Research interests: computer vision and artificial intelligence
Web page: http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~malik
Lori Markson (University of Arizona)
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research interests: cognitive development, word learning, understanding of self and others
Web page: Psychology Department Website
Research interests: cognitive development, word learning, understanding of self and others
Web page: Psychology Department Website
Teenie Matlock (UCSC)
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, UC Merced
Research interests: psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, language and technology
Web page: T. Matlock's website
Research interests: psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, language and technology
Web page: T. Matlock's website
Sam A. Mchombo (University of London)
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Research interests: formal syntax, semantics, morphological theory, African linguistic structure. Editor of Theoretical aspects of Bantu Grammar. CSLI and University of Chicago Press.
Web page: Linguistics Department website
Research interests: formal syntax, semantics, morphological theory, African linguistic structure. Editor of Theoretical aspects of Bantu Grammar. CSLI and University of Chicago Press.
Web page: Linguistics Department website
Srini Narayanan (University of California, Berkeley)
Adjunct Professor of Cognitive Science Program, Leader, AI group, ICSI
Research interests: Computational modeling of biological processes, stochastic grammars, natural language processing, structured probabilistic systems
Web page: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~snarayan
Research interests: Computational modeling of biological processes, stochastic grammars, natural language processing, structured probabilistic systems
Web page: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~snarayan
Alva Noë (Harvard University)
Professor of Philosophy
Research interests: philosophical aspects of perception and consciousness, action and perception, filling in, change blindness, vision and art, the enactive/sensorimotor approach to perception. Noë is the author of Action In Perception (The MIT Press, 2004).
Web page: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~noe
Research interests: philosophical aspects of perception and consciousness, action and perception, filling in, change blindness, vision and art, the enactive/sensorimotor approach to perception. Noë is the author of Action In Perception (The MIT Press, 2004).
Web page: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~noe
Geoffrey Nunberg Ph.D.
Bruno A Olshausen Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience and Vision Science
Research interests: Computational models of perception, natural image statistics, probabilistic models
Web page: http://redwood.berkeley.edu/bruno
Research interests: Computational models of perception, natural image statistics, probabilistic models
Web page: http://redwood.berkeley.edu/bruno
Stephen E. Palmer (University of California, San Diego)
Professor of Psychology
Research interests: Visual perception and memory, Gestalt phenomena, spatial descriptions, and consciousness. Author of Vision as a Cognitive Science. Editor of Cognitive Psychology.
Web page: Psychology Department website
Research interests: Visual perception and memory, Gestalt phenomena, spatial descriptions, and consciousness. Author of Vision as a Cognitive Science. Editor of Cognitive Psychology.
Web page: Psychology Department website
David Presti Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology
William Prinzmetal
Adjunct Professor of Psychology
Research interests: Visual attention, perception, and cognition. Perception of space.
Research interests: Visual attention, perception, and cognition. Perception of space.
Michael Ranney (University of Pittsburgh)
Assistant Professor of Education
Research interests: Problem solving, knowledge representation and reorganization, computational models of cognition, naive physics, intelligent tutoring systems, and science instruction. Author of "The role of structural context in perception: Syntax in the recognition of algebraic expressions"; co-author of "Explanatory coherence and belief revision in naive physics" (with P. Thagard) and "Reasoning and explanation in an intelligent tutor for programming" (with B. J. Reiser).
Web page: School of Education website
Research interests: Problem solving, knowledge representation and reorganization, computational models of cognition, naive physics, intelligent tutoring systems, and science instruction. Author of "The role of structural context in perception: Syntax in the recognition of algebraic expressions"; co-author of "Explanatory coherence and belief revision in naive physics" (with P. Thagard) and "Reasoning and explanation in an intelligent tutor for programming" (with B. J. Reiser).
Web page: School of Education website
Richard A. Rhodes (University of Michigan)
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Research interests: American Indian languages, grammatical theory, phonology, and lexicography. Author of "Lexical Taxonomies".
Web page: Linguistics Department website
Research interests: American Indian languages, grammatical theory, phonology, and lexicography. Author of "Lexical Taxonomies".
Web page: Linguistics Department website
Lynn C. Robertson (University of California, Berkeley)
Adjunct Professor of Psychology
Research interests: Representations of objects and space, visual search and feature binding mechanisms; attention and perceptual organization in normal and neurological populations; functional hemisphere asymmetries, spatial deficits, cognitive neuroscience.
Web page: Robertson lab webpage
Research interests: Representations of objects and space, visual search and feature binding mechanisms; attention and perceptual organization in normal and neurological populations; functional hemisphere asymmetries, spatial deficits, cognitive neuroscience.
Web page: Robertson lab webpage
Eleanor H. Rosch (Harvard University)
Professor of Psychology
Research interests: Categorization of objects and events, Buddhist psychology. Editor of Cognition and Categorization (with Barbara Lloyd).
Research interests: Categorization of objects and events, Buddhist psychology. Editor of Cognition and Categorization (with Barbara Lloyd).
Sherri Roush
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Stuart J. Russell (Stanford University)
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Research interests: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, foundations of induction, bounded rationality, real-time decision-making. Author of The Use of Knowledge in Analogy and Induction, Towards Limited Rational Agents and "Principles of Metareasoning".
Web page: http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~russell
Research interests: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, foundations of induction, bounded rationality, real-time decision-making. Author of The Use of Knowledge in Analogy and Induction, Towards Limited Rational Agents and "Principles of Metareasoning".
Web page: http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~russell
Geoff Saxe
Professor of Education
Alan H. Schoenfeld (Stanford University)
Professor of Education and Mathematics
Research interests: Learning and problem solving in mathematics. Author of Mathematical Problem Solving.
Web page: School of Education website
Research interests: Learning and problem solving in mathematics. Author of Mathematical Problem Solving.
Web page: School of Education website
John R. Searle (Oxford University)
Professor of Philosophy
Research interests: Philosophy of mind, philosophy of language. Author of Speech Acts.
Research interests: Philosophy of mind, philosophy of language. Author of Speech Acts.
Arthur P. Shinamura (University of Washington)
Associate Professor of Psychology
Research interests: Neuropsychology of memory and cognition and effects of aging. Author of "Disorders of memory: The cognitive science perspective."
Web page: Psychology Department website
Research interests: Neuropsychology of memory and cognition and effects of aging. Author of "Disorders of memory: The cognitive science perspective."
Web page: Psychology Department website
Dan I. Slobin (Harvard University)
Professor of Psychology
Research interests: Child language development, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, language typology and universals, and linguistic diachrony. Editor of The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition (Volumes 1-4).
Web page: Psychology Department website
Research interests: Child language development, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, language typology and universals, and linguistic diachrony. Editor of The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition (Volumes 1-4).
Web page: Psychology Department website
Eve Sweetser (University of California, Berkeley)
Associate Professor of Education and Celtic Studies
Research interests: Cognitive semantics, syntax, and mental spaces. Author of From Etymology to Pragmatics: Cultural and Metaphorical Aspects of Semantic Structure and Semantic Change.
Web page: Linguistics Department website
Research interests: Cognitive semantics, syntax, and mental spaces. Author of From Etymology to Pragmatics: Cultural and Metaphorical Aspects of Semantic Structure and Semantic Change.
Web page: Linguistics Department website
Leonard Talmy
Professor of Linguistics
David Wessel (Stanford)
Professor of Music and Psychology, Director, Center for New Music and Audio Technologies
Research interests: Interactive composition and performance, analysis and synthesis of sound, music perception and cognition.
Web page: http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/
Research interests: Interactive composition and performance, analysis and synthesis of sound, music perception and cognition.
Web page: http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/
Robert Wilensky (Yale University)
Professor of Computer Science
Research interests: Role of memory processes in natural language processing, language analysis and production, and artificial intelligence programming languages. Author of Planning and Understanding: A Computational Approach to Human Reasoning.
Web page: http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~wilensky
Research interests: Role of memory processes in natural language processing, language analysis and production, and artificial intelligence programming languages. Author of Planning and Understanding: A Computational Approach to Human Reasoning.
Web page: http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~wilensky
Robb Willer
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Research interests: Social psychology, political psychology, automaticity, social network analysis, agent-based modeling
Web page: Personal site
Research interests: Social psychology, political psychology, automaticity, social network analysis, agent-based modeling
Web page: Personal site
Lotfi A. Zadeh (Columbia University)
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Research interests: Fuzzy logical approaches to artificial and natural intelligence. Editor of Approximate Reasoning in Intelligent Systems, Decision and Control (with Elie Sanchez).
Research interests: Fuzzy logical approaches to artificial and natural intelligence. Editor of Approximate Reasoning in Intelligent Systems, Decision and Control (with Elie Sanchez).
David Zipser PhD (UCSD)
Professor of Cognitive Science