Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society
Chair
Ken Forbus (2009-2014)
Northwestern University
- Qualitative reasoning, analogical reasoning and learning, spatial reasoning, sketch understanding, AI for education, cognitive architecture, natural language understanding, and modeling cultural decision-making.
Executive Officer
Susan Trickett (2010-2012)
Conference Officer
Andrew Stull (2012-2014)
Past Chair
Mary Hegarty (2007-2012)
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Spatial cognition, comprehension, reasoning and individual differences.
Chair Elect
Stella Vosniadou (2006-2014)
Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens
- Learning and cognitive development, mechanisms of knowledge acquisition.
Governing Board Members
Andrea Bender (2011-2016)
University of Freiburg, Germany
- Interactions between language, culture, and cognition in various
domains.
Laura Carlson (2011-2016)
University of Notre Dame
- Spatial representations influenced by core cognitive processes of attention, memory, perception, and language.
Richard Catrambone (2011-2016)
Georgia Institute of Technology
- Problem solving, educational technology, and human-computer interaction.
Jeff Elman (2009-2014)
University of California, San Diego
- Language processing, from speech perception to discourse processes.
Susan Goldin-Meadow (2010-2015)
University of Chicago
- Language development and creation, Gesture's role in communicating, thinking, and learning.
Christoph Hoelscher (2012-2017)
University of Freiburg, Germany
- Human-computer interaction and spatial cognition.
Markus Knauff (2012-2017)
University of Giessen, Germany
- High-level cognitive processes and spatial cognition.
Boicho Kokinov (2011-2016)
New Bulgarian University, Sofia
- Interplay between human thinking, memory and perception.
Barbara Landau (2008-2013)
Johns Hopkins University
- Language learning, spatial representation, and the relationship between the two.
Michael J. Spivey (2009-2014)
University of California, Merced
- Psycholinguistics and visual perception, combining real-time oculomotor and skeletal-motor measures of cognitive processing with artificial neural network simulations of human data.
Ron Sun (2007-2012)
Cognitive Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Human and machine learning, connectionist reasoning and knowledge representation, hybrid models, multi-agent interaction and cognitive social simulation.
Hedderik van Rijn (2009-2014)
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Memory, time perception, and language, with an emphasis on the combination of empirical studies with computational modeling.
Ex Officio Members
Arthur Markman, Cognitive Science Journal Editor
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
- Similarity and analogy, categorization, decision making and consumer behavior.
Wayne D. Gray, TopiCS in Cognitive Science Journal Editor
Department of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Integrated cognitive systems, computational cognitive modeling, cognitive engineering. Interested in basic and applied research that leads to understanding the interplay of cognition, perception, and action in routine interactive behavior.
Nick Chater, Rumelhart Prize Committee Chair
University College London
Robert Goldstone, Robert J. Glushko Dissertation Prize Chair
Indiana University
