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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.

Kathleen Akins (Philosophy)

Email: kathleen_akins@sfu.ca
Office: WMC 5604

Research Interests

Philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, philosophy of the cognitive sciences, self-described as "Theoretical Neuroscience"; present work on colour synaesthesia.

Mark Blair (Cognitive Science and Psychology)

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.

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.

Angelica Lim
(Computing Science)

Email: angelica@sfu.ca
Office: TASC 1 9025

Research Interests

Human robot interaction, affective computing, multimodal perception and learning, developmental robotics.

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.