Concepts and categories

Louise Antony
lantony@philos.umass.edu
Philosophy
No photo availableResearch interests: Philosophical issues at intersection of epistemology and cognitive science, and feminst theory and cognitive science (e.g., implicit bias)
Erik Cheries
echeries@psych.umass.edu
Psychological and Brain Sciences (Developmental)
No photo availableResearch interests: The cognitive biases that underlie infants' representations of objects, agents, and early socio-moral intuitions
Andrew Cohen
acohen@psych.umass.edu
Psychological and Brain Sciences (Cognitive)
No photo availableResearch interests: Decision-making, perceptual categorization, modeling
Rosie Cowell
rcowell@psych.umass.edu
Psychological and Brain Sciences (Cognitive)
No photo availableResearch interests: The neural and cognitive mechanisms of visual perception and memory in the human brain.
Rod Grupen
grupen@cs.umass.edu
Computer Science
No photo availableResearch interests: robotics (mechanics, control, representation)
Jeremy Hartman
hartman@linguist.umass.edu
Linguistics
No photo availableResearch interests: Language Acquisition, Syntactic Theory
Hilary Kornblith
kornblith@philos.umass.edu
Philosophy
No photo availableResearch interests: I work on issues in epistemology which are illuminated by results from the cognitive sciences.
Angelika Kratzer
kratzer@linguist.umass.edu
Linguistics
No photo availableResearch interests: Semantics, philosophy of language. Modality, mood, conditionals, embedded sentences, argument structure, event semantics, pronouns.
Jacquie Kurland
jkurland@comdis.umass.edu
Communication Disorders
No photo availableResearch interests: Treatment-induced brain reorganization in post-stroke aphasia
Joseph Levine
jle@philos.umass.edu
Philosophy
No photo availableResearch interests: Philosophical issues revolving around mental representation, intentionality, and consciousness.
Stephen Miller
smiller@umass.edu
Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Asian Languages and Literatures)
No photo availableResearch interests: Buddhism, cognitive science and literature
Magda Oiry
moiry@linguist.umass.edu
Linguistics and Languages, Literatures and Cultures (French)
No photo availableResearch interests: Interested by syntactic development in older children (3 to 12) in relation to mental states or Theory of Mind.
Barbara Partee
partee@linguist.umass.edu
Linguistics
No photo availableResearch interests: Formal semantics and its relations to pragmatics, syntax, philosophy of language, and cognitive science
Joe Pater
pater@linguist.umass.edu
Linguistics
No photo availableResearch interests: Phonology and its learning; experimental and computational methods
Alejandro Perez Carballo
apc@umass.edu
Philosophy
No photo availableResearch interests: Conceptual innovation; Moral and Mathematical thought and language; Reasoning.
Gwyneth Rost
grost@umass.edu
Communication Disorders
No photo availableResearch interests: Child language development and disorders
Caren Rotello
caren@psych.umass.edu
Psychological and Brain Sciences (Cognitive)
No photo availableResearch interests: Our research seeks to understand basic processes in recognition memory and reasoning, using methods rooted in signal detection theory and neuroscience (EEG).
Lisa Scott
lscott@umass.edu
Psychological and Brain Sciences (Developmental)
No photo availableResearch interests: Perceptual learning and expertise; face and object perception and learning.
Kristine Yu
krisyu@linguist.umass.edu
Linguistics
No photo availableResearch interests: Prosody, phonetics, phonology