Current Faculty and Instructors

Artificial creativity, artificial meta-creation, quantum computing, and virtual reality.

Psycholinguistics, especially the experimental study of sentence comprehension. Experimental syntax and semantics.

Psychology and Law; Eyewitness Identification; Face Recognition; Memory; Meta-Analysis.

Mathemetical modelling in linguistics and psychology. Phonetics and phonology. Metric spaces and their generalizations.

Philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, philosophy of the cognitive sciences, self-described as "Theoretical Neuroscience"; present work on colour synaesthesia.

Affective Computing, artificial Intelligence, human computer cnteraction, intelligent virtual agents, AI ethics, and open science.

Causal explanation; awareness and agency; neural mechanisms of temporal representation.

Philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, political philosophy, metaphysics and epistemology, history of philosophy.

Social attention, eye tracking, scene viewing, face perception, and autism spectrum disorders.

Formal aspects of knowledge representation.

Computer graphics and simulation; artificial intelligence; modeling, facial, character, expression, emotion and creativity systems.

Laboratory phonology; theoretical phonology; first language acquisition; disordered phonology; psycholinguistics.

Studies of individual differences (e.g. expertise) of perceptual and higher-order cognition in technology-rich environments. Cognitive engineering of interactive visualization software systems based on those studies. Joint activity theory analysis of collaborative analytics using those systems in real-world situations.

Cognition, collaboration and pedagogy in the eLearning environment, faculty development and workflow in eLearning organizations.

Human robot interaction, affective computing, multimodal perception and learning, developmental robotics.

Learning through multimedia and cognitive tools and argumentation, from concept maps and argument maps, and analysis of activity logs and eye-movements.

Creative artificial intelligence, computational creativity, affective computing, music perception and cognition, cognitive modeling, embodied cognition.

Computational linguistics and intelligent systems.

Using immersive virtual environments to study human embodied spatial perception, cognition, and behaviour.

Examination of psychological research practices; history and philosophy of psychological science; psychological concepts.

Discourse analysis and computational linguistics.

Experimental phonetics, neurolinguisitcs, psycholinguistics, and second language acquisition. Yue Wang is the director of Language and Brain Lab.

Educational psychology; metacognition and self-regulated learning; software tools that promote learning.

First and second language acquisition; psycholinguistics; phonetics/phonology.

Human-computer interaction, software learnability, design of interactive systems