Science

Psychology of memory, false memory, eyewitness testimony.

Theoretical neurophysiologist and popularizer. Author of "The Cerebral Code," "How Brains Think," "Conversations with Neil's Brain" and "A Brain for All Seasons," amongst other works.

Visual attention and preattention, critique of "pictorial" theories of mental imagery, foundational issues in the computational theory of the architecture of cognition.

Visual perception: "change blindness" (nice animated demos), active perception, eye movements, consciousness, and "the world as external memory".

Representation in everyday activity, cognitive complexity.

Influential researcher on perception and perceptual illusion. Site gives access to selected publications as well as his CV and animated demonstrations of significant illusions.

Cognitive psychology of visual cognition, including attention, imagery, and object recognition.

Professor and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. Research focus is to study how human thought processes are different than other species with an emphasis on blending.

Author of The Design of Everyday Things, list of books and articles in human-centered design.

Information about Scaruffi's research and teaching activities in Cognitive Science, Psychology of Consciousness and Philosophy of Mind, and links to his papers, and to his annotated bibliography of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, neurobiology, artificial life, linguistics, neural networks, connectionism, cognitive psychology, and consciousness.