Cognitive Science Lecturing Staff
The following lecturing staff are associated with the Cognitive Science programme. Not all staff members teach on the programme in any given year.
Computer Science and Informatics |
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| Julie Berndsen | Speech, Language. Computational models which support both speech recognition and speech synthesis. Language engineering. |
| Arthur Cater | Natural Language Processing. The game of Go. Knowledge Representation. |
| Fintan Costello | Computational models of: concept combination; classification in combined categories; creative natural language |
| Fred Cummins | Speech, Motor Control, Dynamics, Coordination, Timing. |
| Mark Keane | Analogy, Concept Combination. Case-based Reasoning. |
| Gregory O’Hare | Robotics, Agents. Distributed Artificial Intelligence. |
| Anthony Veale | Artificial Intelligence; Analogy, Metaphor, Lexical Semantics, Natural Language Processing, Conceptual Blending, WordNet. |
Psychology |
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| Nuala Brady | Visual perception and cognition: Natural image statistics and neural coding of form and motion; visual attention and search; hemispheric asymmetry in perceptual processing |
| Teresa Burke | Experimental and clinical neuropsychology; Memory disorders, Epilepsy; Alzheimer's disease; Parkinson's disease. |
| Aidan Moran | Cognitive psychology (esp. expert-novice differences); Sports psychology; Mental practice; Concentration; Cognitive styles. |
| Lorraine Boran | Perceptual-motor learning, executive function and working memory. |
| Tina Hickey | First Language Acquisition (especially acquisition of Irish as L1), Reading in a Second Language, Immersion education, Bilingualism and biingual families, Second language learning, Minority language maintenance (esp. Irish and migrant languages), Giftedness, Parenting and teaching only children. |
| Tony Hayes | Visual Perception, Perception and Action |
Philosophy |
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| Maria Baghramian | Philosophy of Mind and Language |
| Christopher Mole | Attention, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Aesthetics and Ethics |
| Dermot Moran | Philosophy of Mind, Neoplatonism, Modern European Philosophy |
| James O’Shea | Epistemology; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Mind. |
| Rowland Stout | Philosophy of Action |
Linguistics |
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| Jamal Ouhalla | Syntax |
| Feargal Murphy | Semantics-Syntax interface. Psycholinguistics |
| Maire Ni Chiosain | Phonology |