Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa06317; 29 Mar 95 16:38:56 EST Received: from adara.cs.Buffalo.EDU by RI.CMU.EDU id aa03091; 29 Mar 95 16:38:02 EST Received: (rapaport@localhost) by adara.cs.Buffalo.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.4) id QAA14305 for ai+ai-predoc@cs.cmu.edu; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 16:38:45 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 16:38:45 -0500 From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <199503292138.QAA14305@adara.cs.Buffalo.EDU> To: ai+ai-predoc@cs.cmu.edu Subject: UB Center for Cognitive Science Content-Length: 13931 Sender: ai@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU State University of New York at Buffalo CENTER FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE The Center's Objectives A principal function of the Center for Cognitive Science at the Univer- sity at Buffalo is to promote the development of research networks and of new research activities in cognitive science, both locally and across institutions. To do this, the Center organizes colloquia, panel discus- sions, research-group presentations, student-research presentations, laboratory "open houses", workshops, and conferences that bring together both members of the campus and invited visitors working on cutting-edge issues in cognitive science. The Center helps to establish novel cross-disciplinary linkups among faculty and students that may result in research projects and grant proposals, and it already serves as an umbrella for several ongoing active research groups. It sponsors a Gra- duate Cognitive Science Club, composed of students from different departments who meet regularly to discuss current cross-disciplinary issues. It publishes a Research Report series in cognitive science that is widely distributed as well as exchanged for comparable series from other institutions. It provides a central meeting place, that serves as a nexus for cross-disciplinary communication. In addition, the Center is increasingly engaged in the development of an academic curriculum in cognitive science. It has recently established an undergraduate special major leading to a B.A. in cognitive science. And it is planning further curricular development so that students can pursue training and, eventually, higher degrees in this relatively new field. The Center is currently organizing the first international Summer Insti- tute in Cognitive Science, to take place in July 1994. This four-week educational program is intended to provide a full grounding in the entire cognitive science discipline with both introductory and advanced coursework and numerous presentations, panel discussions, and workshops involving prominent figures in the field. Research Groups A number of research groups investigating different areas of cognitive science are either wholly affiliated with or closely related to the Center. (1) The Discourse and Narrative Research Group. In the Discourse and Narrative Research Group, different disci- plinary perspectives converge to ascertain the organizing proper- ties of various discourse genres, especially narrative. Composed of some ten Center faculty members and a like number of students representing seven disciplines, the group applies the methods of linguistics to analyze the determining effects of the lexicon and of grammar on the organization of discourse; the methods of psychology to track the cognitive processing involved as a discourse progresses; the methods of computer science to model the properties of discourse structure as well as the representation and updating of the "story world" in an unfolding narrative; and the methods of the field of communicative disorders to ascertain the discourse characteristics of autistic or other communication- impaired individuals and what this reveals about the structure of standard discourse. (2) The Spoken Language Research Group. The Spoken Language Research Group includes some twelve Center faculty members and a comparable number of students, representing mainly the fields of communicative disorders, linguistics, neurol- ogy, and psychology, and it encompasses the operation of seven dif- ferent campus laboratories as well as one research facility in a teaching hospital. The group coordinates and integrates research centered on the cognitive processes involved in the physical pro- duction and reception of spoken language in both children and adults and in both impaired and unimpaired functioning. The group has recently been awarded a major training grant that will support graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in the development of their skills in spoken language research. (3) The SNePS (Semantic Network Processing System) Research Group (SNeRG). The SNePS Research Group consists of three faculty members of the Department of Computer Science and about 15 computer science gradu- ate students. Its long-term goal is the design and construction of a natural-language-using computerized cognitive agent, and the research in artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and cognitive science necessary for that endeavor. The three-part focus of the group is on knowledge representation, reasoning, and natural-language understanding and generation. The group is widely known for its development of the SNePS knowledge representation/reasoning system, and Cassie, its computerized cog- nitive agent. (4) The Vision Group. The Vision Group includes three Center faculty members and seven additional faculty members representing the fields of physiology, biophysics, computer science, psychology, anatomy, biochemistry, ophthalmology and engineering. The purpose of the group is to pro- mote interdisciplinary research in the field of vision through sem- inars and a team-taught graduate course in vision. Recent activi- ties of the group include the sponsoring of a workshop on vision and the writing of the book _The Science of Vision_, just published by Springer-Verlag. (5) The Cognitive Neurosciences/Neurolinguistics Research Group. The Cognitive Neurosciences/Neurolinguistics Research Group includes faculty from Neurology, Linguistics, Psychology, and Com- municative Disorders. Graduate students from Linguistics and Psychology also participate in the activities of this group. The research of this group addresses a number of issues surrounding the neuro-psychological and neurophysiological basis of language and cognition. A major research interest is the longitudinal study of the linguistic, cognitive, and neurological development of normal and brain damaged infants. This research involves neuronal plasti- city, language development, and the sensitivity of physiological methods in detecting developmental changes in brain organization. The effects of early hormone exposure on brain organization and subsequent cognitive and linguistic abilities are also being stu- died. The group was founded initially by the collaboration of two programs: the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Neurosci- ences in the Department of Neurology and the Department of Linguis- tics. (6) The Research Group on Conceptual Structure. A newly formed research group will be investigating the common or distinct properties of conceptual structure as this is manifested in different cognitive systems such as those of language, reason- ing, memory, perception, and cultural cognition. The University at Buffalo is particularly rich in researchers involved with the more conceptual or qualitative end of the cognition spectrum, and it is anticipated that faculty from anthropology, computer science, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology will be working together in the new research group on conceptual structure. Contacting the Center For a detailed brochure about the Center and its members or for other information regarding cognitive science at the University at Buffalo, the Center for Cognitive Science can be contacted as follows: Center for Cognitive Science 652 Baldy Hall State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260 telephone / fax / e-mail: Dawn Phillips (Administrative Assistant): (716) 645-3794 fax: (716) 645-3825 dcp@cs.buffalo.edu Leonard Talmy (Director): (716) 645-3795 talmy@acsu.buffalo.edu Faculty ANTHROPOLOGY Charles Frake (apyfrake@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu) cognitive anthropology; cognition and practice; ethnographic seman- tics; conceptualizations of time and space Barbara Tedlock (apybarb@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu) ethnoastronomy; cognitive modeling within cultural anthropology; cultural organization of time & space; cognitive structure of trad- itional healing systems BIOPHYSICS K. Nicholas Leibovic (bphknl@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu) nervous system information processing; parallel representation/computation; neural basis of vision COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS AND SCIENCES Jan Charles-Luce (cdscluce@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) speech production and perception; phonological acquisition Judith Felson Duchan (cdsjfd@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) language acquisition; language disorders; autism; discourse analysis; narrative structure Jeffrey Higginbotham (cdsjeff@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) assistive communication technologies for the communicatively dis- abled, with attention to discourse genre and individual communica- tion style Elaine Stathopoulos (stathop@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) anatomy and physiology of the speech mechanism; children's speech production; speech motor control Joan E. Sussman (cdsjoan@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) speech perception & its development in toddlers & older children; levels of processing; cognition & speech relations COMPUTER SCIENCE William J. Rapaport (rapaport@cs.buffalo.edu) computational linguistics; knowledge representation; philosophical issues Stuart C. Shapiro (shapiro@cs.buffalo.edu) knowledge representation; reasoning; natural language processing Deborah K. W. Walters (walters@cs.buffalo.edu) computational vision; human visual perception; artificial neural networks GEOGRAPHY David L. Mark geodmm@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu) spatial cognition; geographic information systems; human-computer interaction; digital elevation models; computer mapping INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING Valerie L. Shalin (valerie@eng.buffalo.edu) problem solving and learning in knowledge-intensive task domains; cognition in the workplace; human-machine systems LINGUISTICS Matthew Dryer (lindryer@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) typology; syntax; discourse pragmatics Jeri J. Jaeger (linjeri@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) language acquisition; mental representation of phonology; neuro- linguistics Madeleine Mathiot cognitive linguistics; discourse & linguistic systems; language & culture Karin Michelson (linkarin@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) phonology; structure of the lexicon; lexicography; stress and into- nation Leonard Talmy (talmy@acsu.buffalo.edu) cognitive linguistics & semantics; conceptual organization; cogni- tive theory; language typologies and universals Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (linvan@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) functionalist linguistic theory; syntactic theory; language univer- sals David Wilkins (lindavid@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) ethnosemantics; ethnopragmatics; historical linguistics; semantic change; Australian Languages; aphasiology from a linguistic per- spective Wolfgang Wolck (linwolck@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) sociolinguistics; bilingualism; attitude studies David Zubin (linzubin@acsu.buffalo.edu) categorization theory; cognitive typology of nominal classification systems; the expression of spatial concepts; psycholinguistic processes NEUROLOGY David W. Shucard (neubrain@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) biological bases of intelligence, language, learning & cognitive functioning; physiological development & biological influences on them PHILOSOPHY William H. Baumer (ucsbillb@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu) confirmation theories and calculi; historical and contemporary epistemological theories; ethics and ethical judgements Peter Hare (phihare@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) contemporary epistemology, especially pragmatist and naturalized John Kearns (phijohnk@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) logic; philosophy of language; speech act theory Lynn E. Rose philosophy of science; theory development and theory evaluation Barry Smith (phismith@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) philosophical foundations; methodology; formal theories of the commonsense world PSYCHOLOGY Gail A. Bruder (psybrude@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu) cognitive psychology; cognitive deficits; memory; narrative under- standing LouAnn Gerken (psygerkn@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) models of children's speech production; prosody as cue to linguis- tic structure; comparison of impaired & unimpaired language pro- cessing Peter W. Jusczyk (psypwj@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) speech perception; developmental psycholinguistics; language acquisition; cognitive and perceptual development Paul Luce (psyluce@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) spoken and visual word recognition; spoken language comprehension; computational models of perceptual processing James R. Sawusch (psyjrs@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu) speech perception; auditory pattern recognition; attention; hem- ispheric specialization Erwin Segal (segal@cs.buffalo.edu) the cognition & pragmatics of complex behavior; reasoning; discourse; representation J. 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