Ballard, Dana H. - "Animate vision". Computational theories of the brain with emphasis on human vision. (Univ. of Rochester, USA)
Barsalou, Lawrence W. - Perceptual bases of cognition, situated conceptualization, dynamic representations of concepts, frames, category learning, event memory.
Brooks, Rodney A. - Embodied cognition in autonomous robots. (MIT, USA).
Calvin, William H. - Theoretical neurophysiologist and popularizer. Author of "The Cerebral Code," "How Brains Think," "Conversations with Neil's Brain" and "A Brain for All Seasons," amongst other works.
Cave, Kyle R. - Cognitive psychology of visual cognition, including attention, imagery, and object recognition.
Cotterill, Rodney M.J. - Neurophysiology of consciousness, considered as an active process. Implications of this view for understanding autism. (Danish Technical University, Denmark)
Cziko, Gary - Educational psychology. Darwinian approaches. (Univ. of Illinois, USA)
Dunbar, Kevin - Scientific discovery and reasoning (especially in molecular biology); visual, causal, abductive, and analogical reasoning; gender differences in reasoning; science education; mental models; invivo cognition; visualization. (Dartmouth College.)
Gregory, Richard - Influential researcher on perception and perceptual illusion. Site gives access to selected publications as well as his CV and animated demonstrations of significant illusions.
Järvilehto, Timo - Finnish Psychologist with interests in psychophysiology, preception, education, and "the theory of the organism-environment system".
Kirsh, David - Representation in everyday activity, cognitive complexity.
Loftus, Elizabeth F. - Psychology of memory, false memory, eyewitness testimony.
Minsky, Marvin - One of the pioneers and most creative thinkers of Artificial Intelligence research.
Modestino, Ed - A graduate student in the Complex Systems and Brain Sciences program at Florida Atlantic University, working on neuroimaging of complex systems and neural networks of cognition.
Norman, Don - Author of The Design of Everyday Things, list of books and articles in human-centered design.
O'Regan, J. Kevin - Visual perception: "change blindness" (nice animated demos), active perception, eye movements, consciousness, and "the world as external memory".
Pylyshyn, Zenon W. - Visual attention and preattention, critique of "pictorial" theories of mental imagery, foundational issues in the computational theory of the architecture of cognition.
Scaruffi, Piero - Information about Scaruffi's research and teaching activities in Cognitive Science, Psychology of Consciousness and Philosophy of Mind, and links to his papers, and to his annotated bibliography of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, neurobiology, artificial life, linguistics, neural networks, connectionism, cognitive psychology, and consciousness.
Thomas, Nigel - The philosophical, scientific, and historical study of imagination and mental imagery, and their role in consciousness and cognition [Cal State LA].
Turner, Mark - Professor and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. Research focus is to study how human thought processes are different than other species with an emphasis on blending.
van Diepen, Paul - Scene perception, eye movements, chronometry of information processing (no longer active in cognitive research).
Zhang, Jiajie - External representations; human-computer interaction; human factors; medical informatics
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