Research Interests

Members of

the Cognitive Science Initiative
University of Houston

Harold Bedell
Interactions between eye movements and visual perception in persons with normal and abnormal vision.
Bruno Breitmeyer
Visual masking and motion; Gestalt grouping in visibility of singel element targets; effects of color on visual information processing; attention and eye movements.
Randy Cooper
Implementation of effective information technology in organizations.
Cynthia Freeland
Cognitive science and the humanities and arts, especially film; history of philosophical conceptions of the mind, especially in ancient Greece.
James Garson
Formal logic and formal semantics; interface between artifical intelligence and logic; implications of connectionism for processing ordinary language.
Merrill C Hiscock
Functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres; perceptual asymmetries in normal humans; motor asymmetries in normal humans; concurrent-task performance; attention and disorders of attention; learning disabilities; calculation; epilepsy; head trauma; detection of malingering.
Anne J. Jacobson
Challenges to supposed opposition between reason and emotion; role of a Representational Theory of Mind in cognitive science; semantics of explanations of belief, action, and emotion; psychopathology; neural plasticity and changing beliefs; cognitive science in Early Modern Philosophy.
Ben H. Jansen
Quantitative analysis of EEG's and EP's; pattern recognition methods to perform automated sleep staging.
Robert T. Keller
Periklis Ktonas
Justin Leiber
Linguistics and cognitive science, implications for mind and personhood; Turing; science fiction; minds of animals and machines.
Ernst L. Leiss
High-performance computing, with particular emphasis on input/output problems; data security, especially in multi-media and object-oriented environments; formal language theory, with emphasis on language equations.
D. M. Levi
Vision; spatial vision; plasticity; pattern recognition.
Mary Naus
Cognitive and developmental psychology, with emphasis on autobiographical memory; flashbulb memories, emotion and problem solving, reminiscence, eyewitness testimony and mediation.
Haluk Ogmen
Combined theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of neural bases of perception, sensorimotor contro, and cognition; emphasis on modeling visual systems of various species with attention to motion perception; models of sensorimotor control with application to robotics; theoretical studies of sensorimotor stage in infant development.
David M. Sherry
Functions of the central nervous system that allow specific neurons to communicate with one another; impairments from injury and disease, and functional recovery; factors that regulate synaptic regeneration and its selectivity.
Scott B. Stevenson
Combination of images seen by left and right eyes for purposes of depth perception and eye movement control; unconscious, reflexive eye movement responses and relation to the visual cortex.

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