Results for "Center for Cognitive Science"

INACTIVE - Cognitive Science is an inter-disciplinary field devoted to the study of mind. At the University of Texas at Austin, Cognitive Science is pursued mainly by faculty and students in the departments of Computer Science, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Psychology. Instead of a department, there is an informal group which sponsors various University activities related to Cognitive Science.

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Dana Ballard

Affiliated Departments:
Computer Science
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Dr. Ballard's main research interest is in computational theories of the brain with emphasis on human vision. In 1985 he and Chris Brown led a team that designed and built a high speed binocular camera control…

David Beaver

Affiliated Departments:
Linguistics, Philosophy
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Professor Beaver researches and teaches on the semantics and pragmatics of natural languages, in particular on how information is organized at the sentence and discourse level. Within this, he has worked on…

David Birdsong

Affiliated Departments:
French and Italian
Research Interests:

Second language acquisition, bilingualism, psycholinguistics, French linguistics, French language

Hans Boas

Affiliated Departments:
Germanic Studies, Linguistics
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Syntax, Lexical Semantics, Computational Lexicography, Language Contact and Variation, Contrastive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics, Morphology, Endangered Languages and Dialects, Foreign Language…

Daniel Bonevac

Affiliated Departments:
Center for Women's and Gender Studies, Philosophy, South Asia Institute
Research Interests:

Metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, semantics, philosophical logic, ethics and Christian philosophy

Catharine H Echols

Affiliated Departments:
Psychology
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Acquisition of language, and its interface with cognitive and social development: Children's use of social information—including gaze and other non-verbal cues, past accuracy, similarity, and knowledge of an…

Katrin Erk

Affiliated Departments:
Linguistics, Statistics and Scientific Computation
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Professor Erk's main area is computational linguistics. Her core research interest is in computational methods in lexical semantics, in particular methods for learning word meaning from large amounts of text…

Wilson S Geisler III

Affiliated Departments:
Psychology, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests:

visual sensation and perception; natural scene statistics; visual performance in natural tasks, neurophysiology of visual cortex; the evolution of perceptual systems