Nick Chater is Professor of Cognitive and Decision Sciences at University College London. He has an M.A. in Psychology from Cambridge University, and a PhD in Cognitive Science from Edinburgh. He has held academic appointments at Edinburgh, Oxford, and Warwick Universities. His research focussed on attempting to find general principles that may be applicable across many cognitive domains, ranging from reasoning and decision making, to language acquisition and processing, to perception and categorization. Since the late 1980s, in collaboration with Mike Oaksford, he has been interested in the application of probabilistic and information-theoretic methods for understanding human reasoning. Mike Oaksford is Professor of Psychology and Head of School at Birkbeck College London. He was a research fellow at the Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh, he was then lecturer at the University of Wales, Bangor, and senior lecturer at the University of Warwick, before moving to Cardiff University in 1996 as Professor of Experimental Psychology, a post he held until 2005. His research interests are in the area of human reasoning and decision making. In particular, with his colleague Nick Chater, he has been developing a Bayesian probabilistic approach to deductive reasoning tasks. According to this approach reasoning "biases" are the result of applying the wrong normative model and failing to take account of people's normal environment. He also studies the way the emotions affect and interact with reasoning and decision making processes.

Aaron P Blaisdell, Dept of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Henry Brighton, Centre for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany
Kevin R Canini, Dept of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Nick Chater, Dept of Psychology, University College London, UK
Patricia W Cheng, Dept of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Aaron C Courville,
David Danks, Dept of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pitttsburgh, USA
Nathaniel D Daw, Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, USA
Peter Dayan, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, UK
Anat Elhalal, School of Psychology, Birkbeck College London, UK
Jacob Feldman, Dept of Psychology, Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
Philip M Fernbach, Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, Providence, USA
Klaus Fiedler, Psychology Institute, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
Gerd Gigerenzer, Centre for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany
Noah D Goodman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA
Thomas L Griffiths, Dept of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
York Hagmeyer, Dept of Psychology, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
Ulrike Hahn, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Patrik Hansson, Dept of Psychology, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
Ralph Hertwig, Dept of Psychology, Basel University, Basel, Switzerland
David E Huber, Dept of Psychology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, USA
Peter Juslin, Dept of Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
James L McClelland, Dept of Psychology, University of California, Palo Alto, USA
Craig R M McKenzie, Dept of Psychology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, USA
Daniel J Navarro, School of Psychology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA, Australis
Jonathan Nelson, Salk Institute, San Diego, USA
Mike Oaksford, School of Psychology, Birkbeck College London, UK
Timothy J Pleskac,
Adam N Sanborn, Dept of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
David R Shanks, Dept of Psychology, University College London, UK
Shlomi Sher, Dept of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
Keith Simpson, Dept of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Steven Sloman, Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, Providence, USA
Maarten Speekenbrink, Dept of Psychology, University College London, UK
Neil Stewart, Dept of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Mark Steyvers, Dept of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, USA
Joshua B Tenenbaum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA
Marius Usher, School of Psychology, Birkbeck College London, UK
Michael R Waldmann, Dept of Psychology, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
Anders Winman, Dept of Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Alan Yuille, Dept of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA