As our faculty often specialise in more than one field and many research areas of cognitive science overlap, listed faculty are only loosely grouped into the following fields and may well identify with other research areas.
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Adaptive Systems and Artificial Life
![Phil Husbands profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23275.100x128.jpg)
Phil Husbands
Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial evolution, robotics, evolutionary algorithms, computational neuroscience, computer manipulation of sound and image, history and philosophy of AI, machine learning
![Thomas Nowotny profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23276.100x152.jpg)
Thomas Nowotny
Professor of Informatics
Dynamical systems theory, statistics and hybrid systems, information processing in nervous systems
![Andy Philippides profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23306.100x100.jpg)
Reader in Informatics
Computational biology, Computational neuroscience, Computer vision & image processing - Pattern recognition, Evolutionary computation, Insect navigation, Navigation, Robotics
Artificial Intelligence and Computing
![Chris Chatwin profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23256.100x152.jpg)
Chris Chatwin
Professor in Engineering
Case-based reasoning, computer vision, intelligent agents, machine learning, pattern recognition, artificial life
![Peter Cheng profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23258.100x129.jpg)
Peter Cheng
Professor of Cognitive Science
Nature of representational systems, cognitive processes of drawing and writing
![Judith Good profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23261.100x128.jpg)
Judith Good
Reader in Informatics
Educational simulations and games, constructivist learning environments, artificial intelligence and education, support tools and environments for novice programmers, external representations in reasoning and problem-solving
![Novi Quadrianto profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23753.100x125.jpg)
Novi Quadrianto
Lecturer in Machine Learning (Informatics)
Statistical machine learning, Bayesian methods, computer vision, and kernel methods
![Donia Scott profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23268.100x126.jpg)
Donia Scott
Visiting Professor (Informatics)
Personal webpage
Computational linguistics; cognitive linguistics; bioinformatics
![Sharon Wood profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23270.100x119.jpg)
Sharon Wood
Senior Lecturer in Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence (Informatics)
Computational modelling, human decision-making, psychophysical processes and their limitations to higher level, cognitively based, complex knowledge-based reasoning
Arts, Humanities and Education
![Celia Hunt profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23322.100x128.jpg)
Celia Hunt
Emeritus Reader in Continuing Education (Creative Writing)
Cognitive poetics of the creative writing process
![Maria Lauret profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23315.100x64.jpg)
Maria Lauret
Reader in English & American Literature
Multilingualism, migration and subjectivity in the Americas
![Thor Magnusson profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23321.100x133.jpg)
Thor Magnusson
Lecturer in Music
Composition, Computational Creativity, Computer Music, Creative Coding, Human computer interaction, Music, Music Technology, Performance, Software Engineering
![Sally-Jane Norman profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23319.100x122.jpg)
Sally-Jane Norman
Director of the Attenborough Centre Forthe Creative Arts
Embodiment and Technologies, Performing Arts, Practice-based research, Scenography,Sonic Arts, Theatre History
![James Williams profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23317.100x152.jpg)
James Williams
Lecturer in Education
Creationism and Evolution in Education, History and Philosophy of Science, Initial Teacher Education, Science Education, Teaching 'the nature of science' & 'the scientific method',Teaching and Learning
Biology and Neuroscience
![Luc Berthouze profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23313.100x152.jpg)
Luc Berthouze
Senior Lecturer in Informatics
Mathematical neuroscience, time series analysis, network analysis, EEG, EMG, criticality, coordination, synchronization, motor control
![Hugo Critchley profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23310.100x79.jpg)
Chair in Psychiatry
Cognitive Neuroscience, Consciousness, Emotion, Mental health (Human disease),Neuroimaging, neuropsychiatry, Neuroscience (Human disease), Psychophysiology
![Paul Graham profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23308.100x150.jpg)
Paul Graham
Reader (Evolution, Behaviour and Environment)
Animal behaviour, Learning, Memory, navigation, neuroethology, social insect biology,Vision
![Daniel Osorio profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23307.100x80.jpg)
Daniel Colaco Osorio
Professor of Neuroscience
Animal behaviour, colour vision, evolution of communication
![Anil Seth profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23305.100x135.jpg)
Anil Seth
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Consciousness, EEG, Neuroimaging, neuropsychiatry,
Neuropsychology, Psychology, Time Series, Virtual Reality
![Natasha Sigala profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23304.100x99.jpg)
Natasha Sigala
Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience
Ageing, Attention, Categorisation, Cognitive Neuroscience, Executive Functions,Expertise, Learning, Memory, Prefrontal Cortex, Psychology, Visual perception
Engineering, Design and Human-Computer Interaction
![Kate Howland profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23264.100x100.jpg)
Kate Howland
Lecturer in Interaction Design
Computer science, education, learning, Human-computer interaction, creativity
Linguistics
![Lynne Cahill profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23316.100x123.jpg)
Lynne Cahill
Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics
Lexical representation, phonology and morphology
![Lynne Murphy profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23314.100x100.jpg)
Lynne Murphy
Reader in Linguistics
Lexicology, lexical semantics and pragmatics, and lexicography --studying phenomena related to word meaning and how word meanings are learnt and stored in the mind
Philosophy
![Maggie Boden profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23325.100x128.jpg)
Maggie Boden
Professor of Cognitive Science
Creativity, purpose, freedom, personality, history and philosophy of cognitive science, social Implications
![Ron Chrisley profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23324.100x134.jpg)
Ron Chrisley
Reader in Philosophy
Animal cognition; cognitive architecture, concepts and non-conceptual content, consciousness, creativity, emotion, machine learning, philosophy of computation, philosophy of mind, representation, embodiment
![Sarah Sawyer profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23318.100x100.jpg)
Sarah Sawyer
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Anti-individualism, Content, Empty Names, Entitlement, Epistemology, Externalism,Fiction, Individualism, Internalism,
Language & Philosophical Logic, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy Of Mind, Warrant
Psychology and Psychiatry
![Robin Banerjee profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23340.100x60.jpg)
Robin Banerjee
Professor of Developmental Psychology
Psychology, education, social cognition, cognitive development
![Zoltan Dienes profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23338.100x75.jpg)
Professor of Psychology
Experimental psychology, computational modelling; implicit learning, consciousness, unconscious knowledge, connectionism, hypnosis and Bayesian statistics
![Ben Dyson profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/26859.100x134.jpg)
Ben Dyson
Lecturer in Psychology
Attention, Creativity, Representation, Perception, Electroencephalography (EEG)
![Andy Field profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23337.100x140.jpg)
Andy Field
Professor of Child Psychopathology
Anxiety, child development, Emotion, Statistical Methodology
![Alan Garnham](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23335.100x134.jpg)
Alan Garnham
Professor of Experimental Psychology
Psycholinguistics, psychology of reasoning, mental models theory
![Graham Hole profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23334.100x130.jpg)
Graham Hole
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Attention, cognitive development, human factors, visual perception, representation, face recognition
![Marv Khammash profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23332.100x114.jpg)
Marv Khammash
Lecturer in Marketing (Business and Management)
Anthropology, philosophy, psychology, attention, decision making, emotion, memory, cross-cultural analysis, human experimentation, mathematical modelling, statistics
![David Reby profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23327.100x150.jpg)
David Reby
Reader in Psychology
Animal behaviour, Animal Cognition, Babies' cries, Evolution of communication,Experimental psychology, Human Vocalisations, Psychology, Sexual communication, Vocal anatomy, Vocal communication, Voice & Gender
![Nicola Yuill profile photo](/wcm/assets/media/336/content/23752.100x133.jpg)
Nicola Yuill
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Social cognitive development, children and technology, collaboration, autism