Email: kathleen_akins@sfu.ca
Office: WMC 5604
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Steering Committee
The COGS Steering committee provides guidance and support in the running of the Cognitive Science program, and makes decisions about curriculum and hiring.
Research Interests
Philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, philosophy of the cognitive sciences, self-described as "Theoretical Neuroscience"; present work on colour synaesthesia.
John Alderete (Linguistics)
Email: alderete@sfu.ca
Office: RCB 8117
Research Interests
Psycholinguistics, language production, linguistic documentation, and phonology
Endre Begby (Philosophy)
Email: endre_begby@sfu.ca
Office: WMC 4612
Research Interests
Philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, political philosophy, metaphysics and epistemology, history of philosophy.
Elina Birmingham (Education)
Email: ebirming@sfu.ca
Office: EDB 8682
Research Interests
Social attention, eye tracking, scene viewing, face perception, and autism spectrum disorders.
Email: mblair@sfu.ca
Office: RCB 8300
Research Interests
The interactions between attention and learning in a variety of contexts, including: category learning, visual cognition, video game expertise, and recently, human computer interaction and virtual reality.
Margaret Grant (Cognitive Science and Linguistics)
Email: magrant@sfu.ca
Office: RCB 8115
Research Interests
Psycholinguistics, especially the experimental study of sentence comprehension. Experimental syntax and semantics.
Henny Yeung (Linguistics)
Email: henny_yeung@sfu.ca
Office: RCB 8121
Research Interests
First and second language acquisition; psycholinguistics; phonetics/phonology.