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Researching the interactions between perception and cognition. Director: Robert Goldstone.
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Research in the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory Our research goal is to apply these models to understanding on individual people learn and perceive, and how groups of people organize themselves into emergent structures which none of the individuals in the group may understand or even perceive. Our...John Anderson's ACT-R theory of cognition is a cognitive architecture aimed at computer simulating a full range of cognitive tasks.
http://act.psy.cmu.edu/
A virtual world for AI Researchers. Active and growing population, lively topics, and fun bots.
http://ai.uga.edu/~bancroft/interact/
Yehouda Harpaz' model of human cognition, along with links to associated texts, including extensive critiques of publications associated with cognitive science.
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Maldoo the electronic board-games board Maldoo is an electronic board-games board, which you play by touching the point you want to play in. It plays standard Go and Reversi and additional 11 new games. What you can get here is the instructions of playing it...Website for the International Cognitive Science Discussion List).
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COGSCI Cognitive Science Discussion List I is a scientific discussion list about Cognitive Science. Topics including Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Linguistics, Psychology, Connectionism. Announcements of conferences, jobs and lectures and the like are welcome. Contents: Description Short description/announcement Long description/welcome file Resources Related discussion lists WWW...Studies the role of the parietal cortex in the processing of visual spatial information, and how such information is used to direct eye and arm movements. Many publications available online.
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Snyder Laboratory...A study of the cognitive basis of science. Special attention is given to implications for physics and mathematics. By Razvan Florian, a Romanian Physics student studying in Paris.
http://www.arxia.com/florian/cog
A personal account of face blindness (prosopagnosia), by a sufferer.
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Face Blind! Bill's Face Blindness (Prosopagnosia) Pages Introduction It has been published on the Internet so people in all lands can have access to it readily, and so it can be continuously updated. In these pages, you will find information, much of which is not available anywhere else...The National Center for Scientific Research in France promoting study of cognition, especially in humans. Many of the working papers and links to other websites are in English.
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Institute for Cognitive Science Jeannerod access accomodations The Institute and its members Working papers Links Internal search engine Teams new papers on Peter F Dominey page (July 7 2005) French site interesting books From Monkey Brain to Human Brain A Fyssen Foundation Symposium Edited...Sponsors seminars and a conference for cognitive science in Austria.
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Austrian Society for Cognitive Science S acts as a platform for organizing interdisciplinary colloquia, conferences, supporting and establishing research cooperations, cognitive science study programs, etc. It tries to integrate and coordinate cognitive science activities all over Austria. Current Actvities and News Upcoming and Recent ASoCS...Focused on the study of cognition and action.
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Max Planck Institutefor Human Cognitive and Brain SciencesDepartment of Psychology formerly: Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research News Conferences, Lectures,Courses,RecentPublications/inpress(selected TV Broadcasting About the Institute Profile, Research Units, Library/Information Services, History, Visitor Information Research Research Projects, Publications, Research Report 2001...http://mitpress.mit.edu/new-book...n%2c%20Brain%2c%20and%20Behavior
An annotated bibliography of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, neurobiology, artificial life, linguistics, neural networks, connectionism, cognitive psychology, consciousness.
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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MIND-RELATED TOPICS Select the first letter of the last name of the author: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z Introduction Index by Topic...A facility for research into Cognitive Science and related areas of Philosophy. Headed by Paul Thagard, at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
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Computational Epistemology Lab Home Page Science and related areas of Philosophy. Areas of current research Recent articles by Paul Thagard and collaborators 1. Coherence articles (including analogy) 2. Science and medicine articles 3. Emotion articles Paul Thagard's Courses Fall, 2005 PHIL 255, Philosophy of Mind...Links to many interactive illusions, demos, games and toys related to Cognitive Science.
http://psy.uq.oz.au/CogPsych/homepage/playroom/playroom.html
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory group led by Rodney Brooks. Working on robots Cog, Kismet, Coco & Macaco.
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index.html Humanoid Robotics Group MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA [Coco Cog Kismet Macaco Papers People Retired Robots Site Index] webmaster: annika...Links page to writings by and about leading thinkers in cognitive science, and critics and observers of the cognitive sciences.
http://www.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/cogsci.html
The premier professional organization in the field. Information on membership, conferences, and the journal Cognitive Science (including abstracts of recent and upcoming articles).
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Cognitive Science Society Login to members area or to update your profile. about the society our journal Cogsci conference virtual colloquia conferences journals graduate study funding employment newsletter latest news...The philosophical, scientific, and historical study of imagination and mental imagery, and their role in consciousness and cognition. Material by the site's creator and many links to other related sites.
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Imagination, Mental Imagery, Consciousness, Cognition: Science, Philosophy History. A resource for the study of imagination and mental images and their relevance to the understanding of consciousness and cognition, as approached primarily through the methods of analytical philosophy, experimental psychology, cognitive science, and the history of ideas/intellectual history. IMPORTANT...At UC Berkeley. Studies of eye movements (scanpaths), image processing, and virtual reality.
http://scan.berkeley.edu/
An online (scanned) version of the seminal 1978 book by Aaron Sloman.
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Out of print book now online: THE COMPUTER REVOLUTION IN PHILOSOPHY: Philosophy, science and models of mind. By Aaron Sloman School of Computer sciene The University of Birmingham. This book, published in 1978 by Harvester Press and Humanities Press, has...A glossary of Cognitive Science terminology. From Dr. Michael Dawson of the University of Alberta.
http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/~mi...treet/Dictionary/dictionary.html
Research areas: cognition and design (design knowledge and rationale, cognitive analysis), cognition and the use of machines (ergonomics, human factors) cognition and organizations (corporate memory, psycho-sociological issues).
http://www-eurisco.onecert.fr/
Links to resources and online papers on modularity in cognitive sciences, neurosciences, evolutionary biology and AI.
http://gral.ip.rm.cnr.it/rcalabretta/modularity.html
Provides education, documents, and an on-line community for Cognitive Task Analysis. (CTA describes some aspect of human operation and cognitive processing within a work domain.)
http://www2.ctaresource.com/index.php
Studies of cognitive function via EEG, PET, and MRI with clinical diagnosis.
http://neuroimage.net/eng.htm
Electrophysiology research investigating infant language development, language processing in normal monolingual and multilingual adults, and language processing in stuttering.
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Developmental Neurolinguistics Lab Lab is to understand the relationship between language and brain development, and later brain organization. Research projects are in progress that use electrophysiological methods to examine brain processes. An understanding of the relationship between language and brain development and later...Good collection of links to Cognitive Science Researcher's home pages, and to relevant journals (online and paper).
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OBJECTcognition.NET theories of object cognition and object perception (selected by N. J. Bullot) ...A resource on memory and memory disorders. Information includes: books, journals, test publications, links to associations and upcoming conferences. From Psychology Press.
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Memory Arena: Human Memory Books, Journals, Tests and Resources In a celebration of memory research, ICOM-4 will bring together scientists and practitioners from around the world. The tone of the conference will be set by keynote addresses from ten internationally renowned memory researchers: Alan Baddeley, Fergus Craik, Eric Eich,...Illinois State University cognitive science research and curriculum development project.
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The Mind Project Non-Flash site The Mind Project Overview Community Research Curriculum Archives A Research and Curriculum Project in the Cognitive Sciences...Links to resources for research on facial expressions.
http://www.mis.atr.co.jp/~mlyons/facial_expression.html
Reference work (published 2003) from the publishers of the journal Nature. This site exists mainly to persuade you to buy the print encyclopedia, but also makes several sample entries available.
http://www.cognitivescience.net/
Ten papers, originally published in the journal Cognitive Science, and judged by the editors to be classics of the field, made available for free download.
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10 Classics from Cognitive Science Science has identified several classic articles that appeared in our journal over the last couple of decades. With the permission of the Cognitive Science Society, the full text for these articles is available here. Members of our editorial board have...Supplies daily news of the cognitive sciences via user submissions.
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CogNews Cognitive Science News For You, By You How labels shape our attitudes toward violence Posted by Aelhswith on Saturday October 22 03:49PM from the dept article] Recent research by Vanderbilt University psychologist Jessica Giles found that both children and adults are more likely to have a negative,...A company providing a standardized "evidence based" profile of brain function and cognition.
http://www.brainresource.com
The "mental models" theory of thinking and reasoning, as propounded by Kenneth Craik and Philip Johnson-Laird. Site created by Johnson-Laird and Ruth Byrne.
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Mental Models Website The mental model theory of thinking and reasoning is the focus of this Web site. Mental models are representations in the mind of real or imaginary situations. Scientists sometimes use the term mental model as a synonym for mental representation,...Article about a theory that all visual perceptions (illusory or otherwise) are an evolved set of behavioral reflexes.
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Duke University Alumni Magazine Experiments with the enigma of optical illusions have led neurobiologist Dale Purves and his colleagues to a controversial new theory of how our brains perceive the visual world. itting in a small, darkened room, Dale Purves stares at a computer...The author explains this particular condition and how those afflicted with this condition use other techniques to recognize people.
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Prosopagnosia Face Blindness Welcome to my pages about prosopagnosia My name is Cecilia Burman, and I am face-blind in the sense that I can not recognize people by their faces. The medical term for this condition is prosopagnosia. I have written these pages...The condition of prosopagnosia, or "face blindness," from the perspective of a person who suffers from it.
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Prosopagnosia: My Favorite Word Q about a most peculiar condition: Prosopagnosia. 46 46;not a word one sees very often. As one of the world's few people who actually encounter it on a daily basis, I will attempt to explain it to you. Basically, it...The author of "The Design of Everyday Things" writes essays on design, education, emotion and design, people, technology and society, and television.
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Don Norman's jnd.org In praise of Good Design This page illustrates products that have some special positive characteristic worthy of comment. I am looking for more examples, so please send ideas, comments, and suggestions to products jnd.org. Photographs too, if you can get them (beware of copyrights) But...Virtual conference featuring ten target papers and discussions on the intersection between aesthetic experience, theories of perception and cognition. Content in english/french.
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interdisciplines Art and Cognition Cognition virtual conference. The event took place between November 2002 and February 2003 and is no longer active. However, all texts and discussions are archived and can be read. The conference is organized by the Euro-edu Association and sponsored by...[Berlin] The lab, based at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, explores cognitive strategies (including social and emotional components) with which people and other animals make judgments and decisions in the face of uncertain situations. Staff, publications and current projects.
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MPI for Human Development: Adaptive Behavior and Cognition Cognition explores cognitive strategies (including social and emotional components) with which people and other animals make judgments and decisions in the face of uncertain situations. This interdisciplinary group, spanning the fields of psychology, computer science, economics, mathematics, anthropology, and biology...Series of five public radio lectures given by neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego. The 2003 series of the prestigious annual BBC Reith Lectures. Lectures available as Real Audio.
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BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures 2003 The Emerging Mind Reith lecturer is the noted neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognition at the University of California (San Diego Lectures: The Emerging Mind You can hear the lectures again or download transcripts. A book of...Subscription based service from MIT Press giving access to full text coyrighted material, discussions, and news.
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CogNet Subscriber LOG IN HomeLibraryNewsJobsSeminarsCalls for PapersGraduate Programs New in CogNet October 26, 2005 News 2005 James McKeen Cattell Award APA Dissertation Research Awards fMRI Course at MGH APA Science Student Council Early Research Awards CGVI 2006 Calls for Papers APA...Interactive exhibits, forum, and links aimed at exploring the observational basis and significance of the assertion that the nervous system underlies all aspects of human behavior and experience.
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Brain Behavior How did you get to be that way? How did they? What can you and they do about it? Lots of people wonder about these questions (whether they talk about it or not And, over the centuries, people have thought...