COLLABORATORS

 

Collaborator on linguistic studies.
Andrew Nevins, PhD, Department of Linguistics, Harvard University
(email): nevins at fas dot harvard dot edu
(website): Andrew Nevins' Homepage

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Collaborator on neuroimaging studies of affective perception in humans, contrasting human and nonhuman animal sounds.
Pascal Belin, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow
(email): p.belin at psy dot gla dot ac dot uk
(website): Pascal Belin's Homepage

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Collaborator on infants' capacity to match faces and voices, including neonatal studies of speech preferences.
Athena Vouloumanos, PhD, Department of Psychology, McGill University
(email): athena.vouloumanos at mcgill dot ca
(website): Athena Vouloumanos' Homepage

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Collaborator on acoustic and musical processing
Josh McDermott, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT (BA, Harvard, 1998)  
(email): jhm at mit dot edu
(website): Josh McDermott's Homepage

 I use psychophysics and computation to understand perception. My background is in mid-level vision but I am transitioning into audition and music perception. Interests in audition include auditory analogues of processes in mid-level vision as well as the traditional problems of auditory scene analysis and blind source separation. Interests in music include the biological constraints on music perception, the link between music and emotion, and the algorithmic nature of the composition process. I based in the PhD program of the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT, but also do research in the Hauser lab. My experiments here aim to use monkeys to explore the evolutionary origins of music.

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Collaborator on evolution of language and syntactic processing
Ray Jackendoff, PhD, Professor of Linguistics, Brandeis University, Department of Psychology
(email): jackendoff at binah dot cc dot brandeis dot edu

Professor Jackendoff's research deals with the semantics of natural language, its bearing on the formal structure of cognition, and its lexical and syntactic expression. He has also done extensive research on the relationship between conscious awareness and the computational theory of mind, on syntactic theory, and, with Fred Lerdahl, on musical cognition.

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Collaborators on statistical learning and speech perception in monkeys and infants
Richard Aslin, Elissa Newport, and Robert Jacobs
(email): aslin at cvs dot rochester dot edu    
(email): newport at bcs dot rochester dot edu
(website): Statistical Learning and its Constraints Web Site

 

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Collaborator on the special mechanisms of speech perception and language acquisition
Jacques Mehler
(email): mehler at lscp dot ehess dot fr
(website): LSCP Web site

 

 

 

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Collaborators on comparative studies of conceptual representation
Susan Carey, Department of Psychology, Harvard University;
(email): scarey at wjh dot harvard dot edu
(website): Laboratory for Developmental Sciences

 

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Elizabeth Spelke, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
(email): spelke at wjh dot harvard dot edu
(website): Laboratory for Developmental Sciences

 

 

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Collaborator on studies of numerical representation and grammar
Fritz Tsao, Department of Psychology, Hillsdale University
(email): fritz.tsao at hillsdale dot edu

 

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Collaborator on studies of tool use
Laurie Santos, Department of Psychology, Yale University
(email): laurie.santos at yale dot edu
(website): http://pantheon.yale.edu/~lrs32/