Cognitive Science Cluster

Research Keywords

developmental psychology, cognitive development, educational psychology, cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, gesture, math education

Affiliations

• Department of Psychology, Professor
• Department of Educational Psychology, affiliate
• Researcher, Wisconsin Center for Education Research

Current Projects

• Director, Cognitive Development & Communication Lab
• Co-PI, Understanding and Cultivating the Transition from Arithmetic to Algebraic Reasoning
• Co-PI, Does Visual Scaffolding Facilitate Students’ Mathematics Learning? Evidence From Early Algebra
• Co-PI, The Role of Gesture in Thinking and Speaking

Research Keywords

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computer vision, image analysis, image processing

Affiliations

• Department of Computer Sciences, Professor
• Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, affiliate
• Eye Research Institute, leadership committee member
• Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine Training Program, trainer

Current Projects

• Director, University of Wisconsin - Madison Computer Vision Group
• Text-to-Picture Synthesis, in collaboration with Prof. Jerry Zhu
• Face Recognition Group, in collaboration with with Profs. Nigel Boston and Yu-Hen Hu

Research Keywords

language acquisition, phonological acquisition, language disorders, phonological disorders, cross-linguistic acquisition

Affiliations

• Department of Communicative Disorders, Professor
• Waisman Center, Research Scientist
• Department of Psychology, affiliate

Current Projects

• Principle Investigator, paidologos project

Research Keywords

language disorders, language development, language processing, language and cognition, specific language impairment, late talkers, autism

Affiliations

• Department of Communicative Disorders, Professor
• Waisman Center, Investigator
• Associate Dean for Research for the College of Letters and Science
• Department of Psychology, affiliate
• Department of Educational Psychology - Human Development, affiliate

Current Projects

• Language Processes Lab, Waisman Center
• Principle Investigator, Toddler Talk Project (NIH R01)
• Principle Investigator, Interdisciplinary Research Training in Speech and Language Pathology (NIH T32)

Research Keywords

language acquisition, phonological acquisition, language disorders, phonological disorders, cross-linguistic acquisition

Affiliations

• Department of Communicative Disorders, Associate Professor

Current Projects

• Production and Perception of Speech Project
• project examining the effects of the outer and middle ear transfer function on vowel recognition by persons fitted with cochlear implants
• project developing a word recognition tests for persons with cochlear implants using a female voice instead of the standard male voice

Research Keywords

psychology, neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, language processing, neurodiversity

Affiliations

• Department of Psychology, Vilas Research Professor and Sir Frederic C. Bartlett Professor of Psychology
• Waisman Center, researcher

Current Projects

• Director, Language Comprehension Lab and Autism Research

Research Keywords

cognitive psychology (of language comprehension), educational psychology, embodied cognition, language comprehension, reading

Affiliations

• Department of Psychology, Professor
• Educational Psychology, affiliate

Current Projects

• Principle Investigator, Laboratory for Embodied Cognition

Research Keywords

inductive inference, categorization, social cognition, development, culture & cognition

Affiliations

• Department of Educational Psychology - Learning Sciences & Human Development, Professor
• Waisman Center, Study of Children’s Thinking
• Department of Psychology, affiliate

Current Projects

• Director, Study of Children's Thinking project
• Co-organizer, Cognitive Development Research Group

Research Keywords

perception, psycholinguistics, speech perception, auditory perception

Affiliations

• Department of Psychology, Professor

Current Projects

• Director, Wisconsin Speech Perception Laboratory

Research Keywords

Research Keywords

binaural hearing, auditory development, degraded speech, cochlear implants

Affiliations

• Department of Communicative Disorders, Associate Professor
• Waisman Center, researcher
• Department of Psychology, affiliate

Current Projects

• Director, Binaural Hearing and Speech Project

Research Keywords

psycholinguistics, language comprehension, language production, language acquisition

Affiliations

• Department of Psychology, Professor
• UW-Madison Institute on Aging, affiliate
• Director, Training Program in Language (NIH training grant)

Current Projects

• Co-director, Language & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
• Senior Center Investigator, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition

Research Keywords

philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of psychology, concept, innateness, mental representation, learning

Affiliations

• Department of Philosophy, Professor

Current Projects

• writing a book on number concepts ("Think of a Number") with Stephen Laurence
• co-editing a volume on artifacts ("Creations of the Mind") with Stephen Laurence

Research Keywords

social and cultural psychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, sociology, anthropology

Affiliations

• Department of Psychology, Assistant Professor

Current Projects

• Director, Culture and Cognition Project

Research Keywords

psychology, behavioral toxicology

Affiliations

• Department of Psychology, Professor
• Harlow Laboratory for Biological Psychology, researcher
• Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, team teaching commitment
• Religious Studies Program, affiliate

Current Projects

• Uncertainty and ethical reasoning about environmental issues
• Effects of prenatal alcohol and/or stress on development in nonhuman primates

Research Keywords

cognition, representation, mathematics learning and teaching, algebra learning, science learning

Affiliations

• Department of Educational Psychology - Learning Sciences, Associate Professor
• Department of Curriculum & Instruction, affiliate
• Department of Psychology, affiliate

Current Projects

• Principle investigator for the STAAR project, Collaborative Research: Understanding and Cultivating the Transition from Arithmetic to Algebraic Reasoning (Funded by the IERI program from NSF, US Dept of Ed and NICHD)
• Co-PI for "The role of visual scaffolding in students' mathematics learning: Evidence from early algebra," sponsored by the U. S. Dept. of Education-Institute of Educational Sciences (IES)

Research Keywords

emotion, child development, learning, learning mechanisms, cognitive/affective/social neuroscience

Affiliations

• Department of Psychology, Professor
• Department of Pediatrics, affiliate
• Department of Psychiatry, affiliate
• Researcher, Waisman Center
• NIMH Research Network on Adolescent Brain Maturation and Emotion Regulation
• NIMH Research Network on Early Experience, Stress Neurobiology and Prevention Science

Current Projects

• Investigator, Social and Affective Processes Unit, Waisman Center
• Director, Child Emotion Research Lab

Research Keywords

cognitive neuroscience, working memory, general fluid intelligence, attention, fMRI, rTMS

Affiliations

• Department of Psychology, Associate Professor
• Department of Psychiatry, affiliate
• UW-Madison Institute on Aging, affiliate
• Neuroscience Training Program, affiliate

Current Projects

• Director, Postle Lab: A Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory

Research Keywords

phonology, morphology, language acquisition, computational phonology, computational linguistics, phonology, reduplication, language acquisition

Affiliations

• English Department - English Language and Linguistics, Assistant Professor

Research Keywords

cognitive neuroscience, computer modeling, semantic memory, object recognition, dementia, connectionist models, language

Affiliations

• Department of Psychology, Assistant Professor

Current Projects

• Lab director, Knowledge and Concepts Laboratory

Research Keywords

learning, language, development, music, infancy

Affiliations

• Department of Psychology, Professor
• Group Coordinator, Communication and Cognitive Processes Group, Waisman Center

Current Projects

• Laboratory Director, Infant Learning Laboratory

Research Keywords

computer science, computational biology, machine learning

Affiliations

• Department of Computer Science, Professor
• Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Professor
• Comprehensive Cancer Center, member
• Genome Center, member

Current Projects

• Machine Learning Research Group, researcher

Research Keywords

psychiatry, cognitive neuroscience, neuroscience, neurobiology, psychological disorders, computational neuroscience, learning and memory, neurological imaging, molecular biology, gene expression

Affiliations

• Department of Psychiatry, Professor
• Neuroscience Training Program, affiliate
• Distinguished Chair for Consciousness Sciences

Current Projects

• PI for research, Center for Sleep and Consciousness

Research Keywords

neurological communication disorders, social cognition, brain injury

Affiliations

• Department of Communicative Disorders, Associate Professor
• Neuroscience Training Program, affiliate
• Department of Neurological Surgery, adjunct

Current Projects

• Communication and Cognition Lab
• Collaboration with Seth Pollak and Julia Evans (UCSD): Working memory for emotions in adolescents with specific language impairment or traumatic brain injury
• Collaboration with Len Abbeduto: Social cognition in adolescent females with Fragile X Syndrome

Research Keywords

language, structure, syntax, morphology, semantics, text, variation, grammar, theoretical linguistics, applied linguistics

Affiliations

• English Department - English Language and Linguistics, Associate Professor

Current Projects

• "Deconstructing the English Passive" (monograph)
• "Syntactic Variation and (Emerging) Genres" (edited volume)
• "Linguistic Voices on Campus" podcast, dealing with common beliefs about language.

Research Keywords

computer science, statistical machine learning, semi-supervised learning, natural language processing

Affiliations

• Department of Computer Science, Assistant Professor

Current Projects

• Statistical Machine Learning from Labeled and Unlabeled Data
• Text-to-Picture Synthesis for Human Computer Communication