Current Faculty and Instructors

Faculty

John Alderete (Linguistics)

Professor & Director, Cognitive Science 

Email: alderete@sfu.ca
Office: RCB 8117

Research Interests

Psycholinguistics, language production, linguistic documentation, and phonology.

Mark Blair (Cognitive Science & Psychology)

Associate Professor

Email: mark_blair@sfu.ca
Office: RCB 8300

Research Interests 

The interactions between attention and learning in a variety of contexts: category learning, visual cognition, video game expertise, human computer interaction, and virtual reality.

Nancy Hedberg (Cognitive Science & Linguistics)

Professor

Email: hedberg@sfu.ca
Office: RCB 8119

Research Interests

Computational linguistics and cognitive science. Syntax and semantics.

Lecturers & Sessional Instructors

Jeremy Turner (Cognitive Science) 

Sessional Instructor

Email: jeremy_turner@sfu.ca

Research Interests

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

Margaret Grant (Cognitive Science & Linguistics)

Lecturer & Undergraduate Curriculum Chair, Cognitive Science 

Email: mgrant@sfu.ca

Reseach Interests

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

Shawn Tan (Cognitive Science)

Sessional Intructor

Email: sta146@sfu.ca

Cognitive Science Associate Member Faculty

Ryan Fitzgerald (Psychology)

Email: r_fitzgerald@sfu.ca
Office: RCB 8309

Research Interests

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

Paul Tupper (Mathematics)

Email: pft3@sfu.ca
Office: SCK 9524

Research Interests

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

Kathleen Akins (Philosophy)

Email: kathleen_akins@sfu.ca
Office: WMC 5604

Research Interests 

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

Research Interests 

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

Holly Andersen (Philosophy)

Email: holly_anderson@sfu.ca
Office: WMC 5606

Research Interests

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

Endre Begby (Philosophy)

Email: ebegby@sfu.ca
Office: WMC 4612

Research Interets 

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

Elina Birmingham (Education)

Email: elina_birmingham@sfu.ca
Office: EDB 8682

Research Interests

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

Jim P. Delgrande (Computing Science)

Email: jim@cs.sfu.ca
Office: TASC 9015

Research Interests

Formal aspects of knowledge representation.

Steve DiPaola (Interactive Arts and Technology)

Email: sdipaloa@sfu.ca
Office: Surrey campus, 2945

Research Interests

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

Ashley Farris-Trimble (Linguistics)

Email: afarrist@sfu.ca
Office: RCB 9224

Research Interests

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

Nicolas Fillion (Philosophy)

Email: nfillion@sfu.ca
Office: WMC 4614

Research Interests 

Philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, logic, scientific computation, and history of mathematics.

Brian Fisher (Interactive Arts and Technology)

Email: bfisher@sfu.ca
Office: Surrey campus, 2790

Research Interests

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.

Tracey Leacock (Education)

Email: tleacock@sfu.ca
Office: EDB 8675.1

Research Interests

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

Angelica Lim (Computing Science)

Email: angelica@sfu.ca
Office: TASC 1 9025

Research Interests

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

John Nesbit (Education)

Email: nesbit@sfu.ca
Office: EDB 8560.4

Research Interests

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

Phillipe Pasquier (School of Interactive Arts and Technology)

Email: pasquier@sfu.ca
Office: Surrey campus, 2810

Research Interests

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

Fred Popowich (Computing Science)

Email: popwich@sfu.ca
Office: TASC 9423

Research Interests

Computational linguistics and intelligent systems.

Bernhard Riecke (School of Interactive Arts and Technology)

Email: ber1@sfu.ca
Office: Surrey campus, 2759

Research Interests

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

Kate Slaney (Psychology)

Email: klslaney@sfu.ca
Office: RCB 6239

Research Interests

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

Maite Taboada (Linguistics)

Email: mtaboada@sfu.ca
Office: RCB 8109

Research Interests

Discourse analysis and computational linguistics.

Yue Wang (Linguistics)

Email: yuew@sfu.ca
Office: RCB 9213

Research Interests

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

Phil Winne (Education) 

Email: winne@sfu.ca
Office: EDB 8679

Research Interests

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

Henny Yeung (Linguistics) 

Email: henny_yeung@sfu.ca
Office: RCB 8121

Research Interests

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

Parmit Chilana (Computing Science) 

Email: pchilana@cs.sfu.ca
Office: TASC 1 9415

Research Interests

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