Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society
Chair
Peter Cheng (2004-2010)
Department of Informatics, University of Sussex
- The nature of representational systems, both external in the world and internal to the mind. A particular interest is diagrams that support advanced forms of cognition, such as complex problem solving, discovery and conceptual learning.
Executive Officer
Susan Trickett (2010-2012)
Conference Officer
Kevin Gluck (2005-2011)
- Computational models; human performance and learning.
Past Chair
William Bechtel (2002-2010)
Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego
Chair Elect
Mary Hegarty (2007-2012)
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Spatial cognition, comprehension, reasoning and individual differences.
Cognitive Science Journal Editor
Arthur Markman
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
- Similarity and analogy, categorization, decision making and consumer behavior.
TopiCS in Cognitive Science Journal Editor
Wayne D. Gray
Department of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Integrated cognitive systems, computational cognitive modeling, cognitive engineering. Interested in basic and applied research that leads to understanding the interplay of cognition, perception, and action in routine interactive behavior.
Governing Board
Jeff Elman (2009-2014)
University of California, San Diego
- Language processing, from speech perception to discourse processes.
Ken Forbus (2009-2014)
Northwestern University
- Qualitative reasoning, analogical reasoning and learning, spatial reasoning, sketch understanding, AI for education, cognitive architecture, natural language understanding, and modeling cultural decision-making.
Susan Goldin-Meadow (2010-2015)
University of Chicago
- Language development and creation, Gesture's role in communicating, thinking, and learning.
Barbara Landau (2008-2013)
Johns Hopkins University
- Language learning, spatial representation, and the relationship between the two.
Danielle S. McNamara (2006-2011)
Department of Psychology, University of Memphis
- Text comprehension, cognitive applications to educational practice.
Elissa Newport (2005-2010)
Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, Rochester University
- Language acquisition.
Vladimir Sloutsky (2005-2010)
Center for Cognitive Science, Ohio State University
- Conceptual development, interrelationships between cognition and language.
Michael J. Spivey (2009-2014)
University of California, Merced
- Psycholinguistics and visual perception, combining real-time oculomotor and skeletal-motor measures of cognitive processing with artificial neural network simulations of human data.
Ron Sun (2007-2012)
Cognitive Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Human and machine learning, connectionist reasoning and knowledge representation, hybrid models, multi-agent interaction and cognitive social simulation.
Hedderik van Rijn (2009-2014)
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Memory, time perception, and language, with an emphasis on the combination of empirical studies with computational modeling.
Stella Vosniadou (2006-2011)
Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens
- Learning and cognitive development, mechanisms of knowledge acquisition.
