On Concepts, Modules, and Language
Cognitive Science at Its Core
Edited by Roberto G. de Almeida and Lila R. Gleitman
Author Information
Roberto G. de Almeida is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Concordia University, in Montreal. He received his PhD in Psychology and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University (under the supervision of Jerry Fodor). His theoretical and empirical work is on the nature of lexical concepts, in particular on verb meaning, and on the nature of semantic composition. He co-edited with Christina Manoulidou the volume Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing (2015).
Lila R. Gleitman is an Emerita Professor in the Department of Psychology and the founding Director of the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science with A. Joshi at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research concerns the mental lexicon and the syntax-semantics interface, language acquisition, and the relation between language and thought.
Contributors:
Natalie Batmanian
Department of Psychology
Rutgers University
152 Frelinghuysen Rd.
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020
USA
natalie.batmanian@sciwomen.rutgers.edu
Thomas G. Bever
Departments of Psychology and
Linguistics
University of Arizona
1103 East University Blvd.
Tucson, AZ 85721-0068
USA
tgb@email.arizona.edu
Noam Chomsky
Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
USA
chomsky@mit.edu
Roberto G. de Almeida
Department of Psychology
Concordia University
7141 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec, H4B 1R6
Canada
roberto.dealmeida@concordia.ca
Fernanda Ferreira
Department of Psychology
University of California, Davis
1 Shields Ave.
Davis, CA 95616
USA
fferreira@ucdavis.edu
Janet Dean Fodor
Department of Linguistics
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10016
USA
jfodor@gc.cuny.edu
C. Randy Gallistel
Department of Psychology and
Center for Cognitive Science
Rutgers University
152 Frelinghuysen Rd.
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020
USA
galliste@ruccs.rutgers.edu
Jose Garcia-Albea
Department of Psychology
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Campus Sescelades
43007, Tarragona
Spain
jegarcia.albea@urv.cat
Merrill F. Garrett
Department of Psychology
University of Arizona
1103 East University Blvd.
Tucson, AZ 85721-0068
USA
garrett@u.arizona.edu
Lila Gleitman
Department of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
3401 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6241
USA
gleitman@psych.upenn.edu
Ernie Lepore
Department of Philosophy and
Center for Cognitive Science
Rutgers University
152 Frelinghuysen Rd.
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020
USA
lepore@ruccs.rutgers.edu
David J. Lobina
Faculty of Philosophy
University of Oxford
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Rd.
Oxford, OX2 6GG
United Kingdom
dj.lobina@gmail.com
Stefanie Nickels
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Center for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Research, McLean Hospital
DeMarneffe, 2nd Floor
115 Mill St., Belmont, MA 02478
USA
snickels@mclean.harvard.edu
James Nye
Department of Psychology
University of California, Davis
1 Shields Ave.
Davis, CA 95616
USA
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
Department of Psychology
University of Arizona
1103 East University Blvd.
Tucson, AZ 85721-0068
USA
massimo@email.arizona.edu
Mary C. Potter
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
43 Vassar St.
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
mpotter@mit.edu
Esther Schott
Department of Psychology
Concordia University, Loyola Campus
7141 Sherbrooke West, PY-146
Montreal, Quebec, H4B 1R6
Canada
e schot@live.concordia.ca
Karin Stromswold
Department of Psychology and
Center for Cognitive Science
Rutgers University
152 Frelinghuysen Rd.
Piscataway, NJ 08854
USA
karin@ruccs.rutgers.edu
Zenon W. Pylyshyn
Center for Cognitive Science
Rutgers University
152 Frelinghuysen Rd.
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020
USA
zenon@ruccs.rutgers.edu