Our Cognitive Science faculty hail from a variety of departments, including Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics, Computer Science, Information Technology, and Biology.
| Name | Department & Faculty | Office | Extension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott A. Adler Research Area/Interests: Infant cognition; Vision; Developmental psychology | Psychology, Health | BSB 333 | 33389 | adler@yorku.ca |
| Gabriela Alboiu Research Area/Interests: Control phenomenon; Argument structure; Structural encodings of discourse properties | Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, LA&PS | S555 Ross | 20302 | galboiu@yorku.ca |
| Robert Allison Research Area/Interests: Human-computer interaction; Virtual reality; Machine vision; Perception of human motion | Computer Science, Science / Center for Vision Research | Lassonde 3051 | 20192 | allison@cse.yorku.ca |
| Kristin Andrews Research Area/Interests: Comparative cognitive science; Animal cognition; Moral psychology; Social cognition; Folk psychology | Philosophy, LA&PS | Ross S420 | 77590 | andrewsk@yorku.ca |
| Melanie Baljko Research Area/Interests: Multimodal communication; Augmentative and alternative communication; Adaptive interfaces; Computational stylistics; Computer-supported collaborative writing; Women in computer science | Computer Science, Science | Lassonde 2028 | 33348 | mb@cse.yorku.ca |
| Jacob Beck Research Area/Interests: Philosophy of perception; Philosophy of cognitive science; Mental representation; Concepts; Prelinguistic cognition; Number sense | Philosophy, LA&PS | S439 Ross | 22582 | jbeck@yorku.ca |
| Ellen Bialystok Research Area/Interests: Cognitive development; General experimental; Second-language acquisition; Development of symbolic skills such as language, number, and spatial cognition in preschool and school-age children | Psychology, Health | BSB 234 | 66109 | ellenb@yorku.ca |
| Joey T. Cheng Research Area/Interests: Psychology of human sociality; Social dynamics; Social stratification and equality in humans | Psychology, Health | BSB 322 | 33439 | chengjt@yorku.ca |
| Stephen Chen Research Area/Interests: Experimental Analysis of Computational Intelligence techniques; Numerical and Combinatorial Optimization | Information Technology, LAPS | DB 3046 | 30526 | sychen@yorku.ca |
| OisÃn Deery Research Area/Interests: Philosophy of mind and action; Moral psychology; Philosophy of artificial intelligence | Philosophy, LA&PS | Ross S442 | 77593 | deery@yorku.ca |
| Mary Desrocher Research Area/Interests: Pediatric neuropsychology; Normative studies of memory functioning through the lifespan; The functioning of the hippocampus and frontal lobes in normal and altered development | Psychology, Health | BSB 124 | 33111 | mdesroch@yorku.ca |
| James Elder Research Area/Interests: Visual perception; Psychological and computational methods; Neural modeling | Psychology, Health | Lassonde 0003G | 66475 | jelder@yorku.ca |
| Erez Freud Research Area/Interests: Neural basis of object recognition; Visuomotor control; Neuropsychology | Psychology, Health | SHR 1008 | 33451 | efreud@yorku.ca |
| Vinod Goel Research Area/Interests: Cognitive and neural basis of rational decision-making; Emotional processing | Psychology, Health | BSB 332 | 66150 | vgoel@yorku.ca |
| Verena Gottschling Research Area/Interests: Philosophy of psychology; Philosophical foundations of cognitive science | Philosophy, LA&PS | S444 Ross | 44722 | vgott@yorku.ca |
| Chris Green Research Area/Interests: History of psychology; Theoretical cognitive science | Psychology, Health | BSB 286 | 66164 | christo@yorku.ca |
| Jarek Gryz Research Area/Interests: Maximal vector computation; Query sampling; Query optimization via data mining; Semantic query caching | Computer Science, Science | Lassonde 3026 | 55053 | jarek@cse.yorku.ca |
| Laurence Harris Research Area/Interests: Vision; Vestibular system; Eye and head movements; Control systems; Neurophysiology Perception of motion; Psychophysics; Multi-sensory interaction | Psychology, Health | BSB 296 | 55116 | harris@yorku.ca |
| Jagdish Hattiangadi Research Area/Interests: Philosophy of science; Philosophy of language; History of ideas; Metaphysics; Epistemology | Philosophy, LA&PS | S437 Ross | 77524 | jagdish@yorku.ca |
| Denise Y P Henriques Research Area/Interests: Sensorimotor control and learning; Vision, haptics, kinesthesia; Sensorimotor integration; Computation simulations; Virtual reality; Cognitive neuroscience | Psychology, Kinesiology and Health Science, Health | 305 Calumet College – CC | 77215 | deniseh@yorku.ca |
| Jimmy Huang Research Area/Interests: Information retrieval; data mining; Natural language processing; Computational linguistics | Information Technology. LA&PS | TEL3048 | 30149 | jhuang@yorku.ca |
| Brian Huss Research Area/Interests: Psychology of logical reasoning; Doxastic voluntarism; Moral psychology | Philosophy, LA&PS | S414 Ross | 33634 | huss@yorku.ca |
| Henry Jackman Research Area/Interests: Philosophy of language; Philosophy of mind; Epistemology; American pragmatism | Philosophy, LA&PS | S434 Ross | 77595 | hjackman@yorku.ca |
| Michael Jenkin Research Area/Interests: Computer vision; Virtual reality; Mobile robotics | Computer Science, Science | Lassonde 3032 | 33162 | jenkin@cse.yorku.ca |
| Janice M. Johnson Research Area/Interests: Cognitive development; General experimental; Cognition; Psycholinguistics; Cognitive process analysis | Psychology, Health | BSB 246 | 66214 | janicej@yorku.ca |
| David Jopling Research Area/Interests: Philosophy of psychology; Continental philosophy | Philosophy, LA&PS | S435 Ross | 77588 | jopling@yorku.ca |
| Kohitij Kar Research Area/Interests: Visual cognition; Computer vision; Electrophysiology; Chemogenetics; Autism spectrum disorder | Biology, Science | Lassonde 0009D | N/A | kohitij@mit.edu |
| Kerry Kawakami Research Area/Interests: Implicit social categorization processes including how we perceive people from different social groups, how we react to intergroup bias, and strategies to reduce prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination | Psychology, Health | BSB 327 | 66144 | kawakami@yorku.ca |
| Peter Jes Kohler Research Area/Interests: Visual neuroscience; Perceptual organization | Psychology, Health | SHR 1012 | 33771 | pjkohler@yorku.ca |
| Kevin Lande Research Area/Interests: Philosophy of cognitive science; Philosophy of perception; Mental representation; Perceptual organization; Shape and object perception | Philosophy, LA&PS | S443 Ross | 77594 | lande@yorku.ca |
| Yves Lesperance Research Area/Interests: Knowledge representation; Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems; Cognitive robotics | Computer Science, Science | Lassonde 3052A | 70146 | lesperan@cse.yorku.ca |
| Liya Ma Research Area/Interests: Cognitive control and flexibility; cognitive and computational neurophysiology | Psychology, Health | BSB 365 | N/A | liyama@yorku.ca |
| Suzanne MacDonald Research Area/Interests: Comparative cognition; Spatial cognition; Language and communication | Psychology, Health | BSB 297 | 66226 | suzmac@yorku.ca |
| Johannes Mahr Research Area/Interests: Philosophy of cognitive science; memory; imagination; communication | Philosophy, LA&PS | Ross N824 | N/A | jmahr@yorku.ca |
| Alexandru Manafu Research Area/Interests: Philosophy of Science; Metaphysics of Science | Philosophy, LA&PS | S414A Ross | 33636 | alexman@yorku.ca |
| Raymond Mar Research Area/Interests: Cognitive effects of narrative fiction; Social cognition; Autobiographical memory | Psychology, Health | BSB 293 | 66226 | mar@yorku.ca |
| Parisa Moosavi Research Area/Interests: Theoretical Ethics (including Ethics of Artificial Intelligence) | Philosophy, LA&PS | S424 Ross | N/A | pmoosavi@yorku.ca |
| Richard Murray Research Area/Interests: Perceptual psychology; Visual psychophysics; Perceptual organization; Three-dimensional shape perception | Psychology, Health / Centre for Vision Research | Lassonde 0009 | 23025 | rfm@yorku.ca |
| Susan Murtha Research Area/Interests: Cognitive impairment; Aging Memory | Psychology, Health | BSB 217 | 66132 | smurtha@yorku.ca |
| Chandan Narayan Research Area/Interests: Acoustic-phonetics; Speech Perception Language acquisition; Psycholinguistics | Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, LA&PS | S546A Ross | 33791 | chandann@yorku.ca |
| Norman Park Research Area/Interests: Cognitive and neuropsychological processes associated with perceiving and remembering; Attention and memory | Psychology, Health | BSB 213 | 22159 | npark@yorku.ca |
| Juan Pascual-Leone Research Area/Interests: Developmental and cognitive processes | Psychology, Health | BSB 402C | 66148 | juanpl@yorku.ca |
| Thanujeni Pathman Research Area/Interests: Memory and memory development; Developmental cognitive neuroscience; Cognitive development | Psychology, Health | BSB 283 | 66253 | tpathman@yorku.ca |
| Judy Pelham Research Area/Interests: Logic Logical truth; The logic of conditionals | Philosophy, LA&PS | S440 Ross | 77591 | pelham@yorku.ca |
| Jill Rich Research Area/Interests: Clinical, semantic memory, implicit memory and prospective memory; Memory processing in normal aging and dementia; Cognitive processes; Neural basis of behaviour | Psychology, Health | BSB 248A | 30561 | jbr@yorku.ca |
| Regina Rini Research Area/Interests: Ethics psychology; Moral Cognition; Social Epistemology | Philosophy, LA&PS | S416 Ross | 30102 | rarini@yorku.ca |
| Shayna Rosenbaum Research Area/Interests: Clinical neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience; Cognitive and neural basis of remote memory (spatial, episodic, semantic) and mental state attributions; Lesion and FMRI methods | Psychology, Health | AC 041 | 20449 | shaynar@yorku.ca |
| Anne Russon Research Area/Interests: Comparative studies of nonhuman primates; Infant social and cognitive development; Imitation Tool use; Social vs. ecological intelligence; The evolution of primate intelligence | Psychology, GL | York Hall, 165 Glendon | 88363 | arusson@glendon.yorku.ca |
| Ayana Samuel Research Area/Interests: Philosophy of action; Communication; Developmental psychology | Philosophy, LA&PS | Ross S414D | N/A | atsamuel@yorku.ca |
| Jeffrey Schall Research Area/Interests: Visual, cognitive, and computational neurophysiology | Biology, Science | 0003F Lassonde | N/A | schalljd@yorku.ca |
| Lauren Sergio Research Area/Interests: Behavioural and electromyographic studies of multi-joint movement coordination; Neural mechanisms underlying visually guided reaching in parietal and precentral cortex; Control of voluntary movement in neurological patient populations | Psychology, Kinesiology and Health Science, Health | Norman Bethune 357 | 33641 | lsergio@yorku.ca |
| Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari Research Area/Interests: AI fairness, AI in medical imaging, large language models fairness, responsible AI, AI risks | EECS | FC 035B | N/A | lsk@yorku.ca |
| Stuart Shanker Research Area/Interests: Parent-child relationships and children’s development; Role of emotion in evolution and development of language, intelligence, social skills and empathy; Interaction between development of mind and brain | Psychology, Health | TEL 5030E | 20386 | shanker@yorku.ca |
| Liz Smeets Research Area/Interests: First language acquisition; Second language acquisition; First language attrition; Syntax-discourse interface; Linguistic approaches in the foreign language classroom | Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, LAPS | Ross S544 | 88720 | lsmeets@yorku.ca |
| Jennifer Steele Research Area/Interests: Implicit social cognition; Stereotype development; Social perception | Psychology, Health | BSB 331 | 22156 | steeleje@yorku.ca |
| Jennifer K Steeves Research Area/Interests: Cognitive neuroscience; Neuroplasticity; Neuroimaging; TMS | Psychology, Health | SHR 1032 | 20452 | steeves@yorku.ca |
| Dale Stevens Research Area/Interests: Cognition and aging; Conceptual processing; Memory and perceptual abstraction | Psychology, Health | SHR 2036 | 44662 | stevensd@yorku.ca |
| Maggie Toplak Research Area/Interests: Clinical developmental psychology; Cognitive processes; Individual differences; Youth | Psychology, Health | BSB 126 | 33710 | mtoplak@yorku.ca |
| Niko Troje Research Area/Interests: Visual perception; People perception; Sensorimotor control; Biological motion; Virtual reality | Biology, Science | LSB 429B | 22862 | troje@yorku.ca |
| Gary Turner Research Area/Interests: Cognitive neuroscience; Executive control; Neurorehabilitation; Brain networks and adult lifespan development | Psychology, Health | BSB 244 | 33538 | grturner@yorku.ca |
| Claudine Verheggen Research Area/Interests: Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Mind; Wittgenstein Davidson | Philosophy, LA&PS | S436 Ross | 77553 | cverheg@yorku.ca |
| Duff Waring Research Area/Interests: Philosophy of psychiatry; Conceptions of mental disorder; Personality traits and ethical virtues in psychotherapy | Philosophy, LA&PS | S428 Ross | 33522 | dwaring@yorku.ca |
| Laurie Wilcox Research Area/Interests: Stereoscopic vision; 3D film technology; Second-order stereopsis | Psychology, Health | Lassonde 0003H | 66494 | lwilcox@yorku.ca |
| Richard Wildes Research Area/Interests: Computational vision, especially video understanding, as well as allied areas of artificial intelligence and machine vision applications | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering | Lassonde 3032 | 40203 | wildes@cse.yorku.ca |
| Frances Wilkinson Research Area/Interests: Migraine and the visual system; Vision and aging; Intermediate level form perception; Face perceptions | Psychology, Health | Lassonde 1012D | 33184 | franw@yorku.ca |
| Hugh Wilson Research Area/Interests: Psychophysics; Visual network models; Cortical neuron models; Nonlinear dynamics in neuroscience | Biology, Science | Lassonde B002F | 33140 | hrwilson@yorku.ca |
| Melody Wiseheart Research Area/Interests: Developmental cognitive neural science; Cognitive flexibility and executive function; Educational applications of cognitive psychology | Psychology, Health | BSB 242 | 33266 | ncepeda@yorku.ca |
| Joel Zylberberg Research Area/Interests: Computational neuroscience; Machine learning; Vision | Physics, Science | PSE 243 | 33603 | joelzy@yorku.ca |