Research Interests
(Left to Right) Professors Dan Levitin, Gregory Dudek, and Heather Goad
Faculty Members’ Research Interests
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- Andy Baker
- Psychology
- Connectionist and causal power models of causal reasoning. Animal cognition.
- Bob Bracewell
- Educational Psychology
- Cogition of text production; discourse analysis; use of information technologies in instruction.
- Alain Breuleux
- Educational Psychology
- Problem-solving theory and research methods; think-aloud protocol analysis; cognitive models; problem-solving strategies; and knowledge representation; planning; expert-novice differences; natural language processing; writing; text generation; applications of cognitive science to the design of support systems and human-computer interfaces.
- James J. Clark
- Centre for Intelligent Machines, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Active vision, attention, visual-motor systems, change-blindness, perceptual stability.
- Janet Donin
- Educational Psychology
- Applied cognitive science; discourse processing; acquisition of information from oral and written discourse; bilingual text processing.
- Gregory Dudek
- Centre for Intelligent Machines, School of Computer Science
- Spatial modelling, autonomous perception, vision, robotics, exploration, navigation, localization, positioning, sensing, mapping.
- Michael Hoover
- Educational Psychology
- Psycholinguistics; Sentence processing strategies across languages and by bilinguals; First Nations language education.
- Susanne Lajoie
- Educational Psychology
- Intelligent tutors, diagnostic assessment and technology in science and mathematics.
- Jim McGilvray
- Philosophy
- Chomsky, nativist semantics of natural languages, colour vision.
- Yuriko Oshima-Takane
- Psychology
- Language learning mechanism, development of communicative competence, computational models of word learning.
- G. L. Piggott
- Linguistics
- Phonological theory; acquisition of prosodic structure; phonology of SLI; learnability of phonological systems.
- Dirk Schlimm
- Philosophy
- Analogical reasoning; mathematical reasoning; history and philosophy of science, mathematics, and computing.
- Thomas R. Shultz
- Psychology
- Connectionist modeling of reasoning and cognitive development. Cognitive consistency. Knowledge and learning.
- Kaleem Siddiqi
- Computer Science
- Computer vision, shape analysis, shape perception, object recognition, curve and surface evolution, medical imaging.
- Yoshio Takane
- Psychology
- Multivariate analysis, connectionist models, categorical data analysis, matrix algebra (projectors, GSVD).
- Lydia White
- Linguistics
- Second language acquisition: the role of Universal Grammar and the nature of linguistic representation.
- Robert J. Zatorre
- Montreal Neurological Institute
- Cognitive neuroscience; auditory processes, speech and music perception, cortical structure/function relationships.
Last Updated 9/10/2007