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Faculty and graduate students from Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Computer Science, and Applied Mathematics make up the program. Many of our faculty are also involved with the Brain Science Program.


Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences

James Anderson
Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
(James_Anderson@brown.edu)
Cognitive applications of neural networks.

Katherine Demuth
Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
(Katherine_Demuth@brown.edu)
Language acquisition.

Fulvio Domini
Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
(Fulvio_Domini@brown.edu)
Perception of the three-dimensional environment.

Mark Johnson
Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
(Mark_Johnson@brown.edu)
Computational processes involved in human language understanding.

James Morgan
Associate Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
(James_Morgan@brown.edu)
Infant speech perception, learnability theory, and psycholinguistics.

Julie Sedivy
Associate Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
(Julie_Sedivy@brown.edu)
Representations and processes that underlie human natural language understanding.

Steven Sloman
Associate Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
(Steven_Sloman@brown.edu)
Cognitive processes that enable people to reason about, understand, and make decisions in an uncertain world.

David Sobel
Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
(David_Sobel_1@brown.edu)
Causal reasoning and the development of mental representation.

Michael J. Tarr
Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
(Michael_Tarr@brown.edu)
Behavioral, biological and computational approaches to visual object and face recognition.

William Warren
Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
(Bill_Warren@brown.edu)
Visual navigation and motor control.

Computer Science

Michael Black
Associate Professor of Computer Science
(Michael_Black@brown.edu)
Probabilistic and statistical methods for learning, estimating, and understanding motion and image sequence.

Eugene Charniak
Professor of Computer Science
(ec@cs.brown.edu)
Computational linguistics.

Thomas Dean
Professor of Computer Science
(tld@cs.brown.edu)
Decision making under uncertainty and learning.

Amy Greenwald
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
(Amy_Greenwald@brown.edu)
Multi-agent learning, game theory, e-commerce.

Thomas Hofmann
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
(th@cs.brown.edu)
Machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision, information retrieval.

Applied Mathematics

Elie Bienenstock
Associate Professor of the Division of Applied Mathematics and the Department of Neuroscience
(elie@dam.brown.edu)
Applying hierarchies of compositions to solve object-recognition problems, statistical analysis of neurophysiological data.

Stuart Geman
Professor of Applied Mathematics
(geman@dam.brown.edu)
Probability, statistics, natural and machine vision.

Ioannis Kontoyiannis
Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
(yiannis@dam.brown.edu)
Information theory, probability, and statistics.

David Mumford
Professor of Applied Mathematics
(mumford@dam.brown.edu)
Stochastic models and statistical methods in vision and cognition.

Post-doctoral fellows

Brett Fajen
Postdoctoral Fellow; Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
(Brett_Fajen@brown.edu)
Visual perception and control of locomotion.

Graduate students 2000-2001

Donald Blaheta
Computer Science
Graduate Student

Yi Cheng
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
Graduate Student

Keith Hall
Computer Science
Graduate Student

Cullen Jackson
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
Graduate Student

Luis Ortiz
Computer Science
Graduate Student

Brian Roark
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
Graduate Student