NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of cognitive scientists

Below are some notable researchers in cognitive science. Jump to: navigation, search Rendering of human brain based on MRI data Cognitive science is usually defined as the scientific study either of mind or of intelligence (e. ...

Leon Festinger (born May 8, 1919 - February 11, 1989) was a social psychologist from New York City who became famous for his Theory of Cognitive Dissonance. ... Robert Goldstone is a professor of psychology at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. ... Daniel Kahneman (born 1934 in Tel Aviv, in the then British Mandate of Palestine, now in Israel), is a key pioneer and theorist of behavioral finance, which integrates economics and cognitive science to explain seemingly irrational risk management behavior in human beings. ... George A. Miller (born February 3 1920) is a famous professor of psychology at Princeton University, whose most famous work was The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information, which was published in 1956 in In the linguistics community, Miller is well... Jonathan Potter is Professor of Discourse Analysis at the Loughborough University. ... Eleanor Rosch is a professor of psychology at The University of California, Berkeley. ... Linda B. Smith is a Psychology Professor at Indiana University. ... Anne Treisman is a psychologist, working currently at Princeton University, Department of Psychology. ... David Chalmers is a leading philosopher in the area of philosophy of mind. ... Andy Clark was director of the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University in Bloomington. ... Daniel Dennett Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28, 1942) is a prominent American philosopher. ... Colin McGinn (born 1950) is a British philosopher at Rutgers University. ... Roger Penrose Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. ... Jump to: navigation, search Karl Popper Sir Karl Raimund Popper (July 28, 1902 â€“ September 17, 1994), was an Austrian-born British philosopher of science and professor at the London School of Economics. ... John Searle is a philosopher at UC Berkeley. ... Tim van Gelder is an associate professor of philosophy and a fellow of the Philosophy Department at the University of Melbourne. ... AntÃ³nio R. DamÃ¡sio (b. ... Sir John Carew Eccles (January 27, 1903â€“May 2, 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. ... Gerald Maurice Edelman (born July 1, 1929) is a biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1972 for his work on the immune system. ... Andrew and Alexander Fingelkurts (identical twins) are neuroscientists known in the fields of academic cognitive neuroscience, psychophysiology, and clinical research, with a considerable number of publications in scientific journals, book chapters and a lecturing practice. ... Karl H. Pribram (born February 25, 1919 in Vienna, Austria) was trained as a neurosurgeon. ... Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran on an episode of PBSs NOVA Television program. ... Olaf Sporns is an artificial intelligence researcher who currently works in the Department of Psychology at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. ... Jump to: navigation, search Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph. ... Jerry Allan Fodor (b. ... George P. Lakoff (Laykoff, born 1941) is a professor of linguistics (in particular, cognitive linguistics) at the University of California, Berkeley where he has taught since 1972. ... Steven Pinker Steven Pinker (born September 18, 1954, in Montreal, Canada) is one of the most prominent cognitive scientists today. ... David Kirsh is a researcher in the area of Cognitive Science. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Marvin Minsky Marvin Lee Minsky (born August 9, 1927), sometimes affectionately known as Old Man Minsky, is an American scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of MITs AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy. ... Seymour Papert (born March 1, 1928 Pretoria, South Africa) is an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and prominent educator. ... Roger Schank is president and CEO of Socratic Arts, and a leading visionary in artificial intelligence. ... Jump to: navigation, search Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 â€“ February 9, 2001) was a researcher in the fields of cognitive psychology, computer science, public administration, economics and philosophy (sometimes described as a polymath). ... Jump to: navigation, search Alan Turing is often considered the father of modern computer science. ... Kenneth Craik ( 1914- 1945) was a philosopher and psychologist who received his doctorate from Cambridge University in 1940. ... Friedrich Hayek Friedrich August von Hayek (May 8, 1899 in Vienna â€“ March 23, 1992 in Freiburg) was an economist and social scientist of the Austrian School, noted for his defense of liberal democracy and free-market capitalism against a rising tide of socialist and collectivist thought in the mid-20th... Edwin Hutchins is a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego. ... Rafael E. NÃºÃ±ez is a professor of Cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego and is well known for promoting the idea of embodied cognition. ...