List of cognitive scientists

Below are some notable researchers in cognitive science.

Computer science

• Michael A. Arbib
• Randall Beer
• Guy André Boy
• Rodney Brooks
• Jaime Carbonell
• Gail Carpenter
• Cristiano Castelfranchi
• Laurence Devillers
• Michael Georgeff
• Ian Goodfellow
• Barbara J. Grosz
• Demis Hassabis
• Catherine Havasi
• Geoffrey Hinton
• Douglas Hofstadter
• Vasant Honavar
• John Hopfield
• Michael I. Jordan
• Andrej Karpathy
• David Kirsh
• Daphne Koller
• Janet Kolodner
• Yann LeCun
• Douglas Lenat
• Antonio Lieto
• Fei-Fei Li
• Seppo Linnainmaa
• Marvin Minsky
• Tom M. Mitchell
• Allen Newell
• Andrew Ng
• Seymour Papert
• Paolo Petta
• Gordon Plotkin
• Ruslan Salakhutdinov
• Arthur Samuel
• Roger Schank
• Anil Seth
• Aaron Sloman
• Ehud Shapiro
• Herbert A. Simon
• Alan Turing
• Massimiliano Versace
• Terry Winograd
• Patrick Winston
• Richard Zemel

Linguistics

• Elizabeth Bates
• Paolo Canettieri
• Anne Castles
• Noam Chomsky
• Jeffrey Elman
• Daniel L. Everett
• Gilles Fauconnier
• Charles Fillmore
• Janet Dean Fodor
• Jean Gagnepain
• Peter Gärdenfors
• Dirk Geeraerts
• Susan Gelman
• LouAnn Gerken
• Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.
• Lila R. Gleitman
• Adele Goldberg
• Louis M. Goldstein
• Joseph Grady
• Nina Hyams
• Ray Jackendoff
• Pauline Jacobson
• Mark Johnson
• George Lakoff
• Barbara Landau
• Ronald Langacker
• Géraldine Legendre
• Eric Lenneberg
• Elena Lieven
• Brian MacWhinney
• Ellen Markman
• Steven Pinker
• Leonard Talmy
• Mark Turner
• Lydia White
• Deirdre Wilson
• Charles Yang

Neuroscience

• Larry Abbott
• Eugene Aserinsky
• Timothy Bliss
• Jean-Pierre Changeux
• Francis Crick
• Antonio Damasio
• Peter Dayan
• Jean Decety
• Stanislas Dehaene
• William C. Dement
• John Eccles
• Gerald Edelman
• Howard Eichenbaum
• Martha Farah
• Vittorio Gallese
• Michael Gazzaniga
• Norman Geschwind
• Stephen Grossberg
• Donald O. Hebb
• Allan Hobson
• Myron Arms Hofer
• Jon Kaas
• Eric Kandel
• Nathaniel Kleitman
• Christof Koch
• Stephen Kosslyn
• Jerome Lettvin
• Rodolfo Llinás
• Terje Lømo
• David Marr
• Earl K. Miller
• Richard G. Morris
• Edvard Moser
• May-Britt Moser
• Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
• Lynn Nadel
• Charles A. Nelson III
• Helen Neville
• John O'Keefe
• Elizabeth A. Phelps
• Karl Pribram
• Dale Purves
• Marcus Raichle
• Vilayanur Ramachandran
• Gina Rippon
• Giacomo Rizzolatti
• Trevor Robbins
• Olaf Sporns
• Giulio Tononi
• Rafael Yuste
• Charles H. Zeanah
• Semir Zeki

Philosophy

• Leo Apostel
• István Aranyosi
• Daniel A. Arnold
• Ned Block
• Franz Brentano
• Tyler Burge
• Donald T. Campbell
• Peter Carruthers
• David Chalmers
• Patricia Churchland
• Paul Churchland
• Andy Clark
• Tim Crane
• Gregory Currie
• Daniel Dennett
• Ezequiel Di Paolo
• Hubert Dreyfus
• Fred Dretske
• Jerry Fodor
• Shaun Gallagher
• Tamar Gendler
• Peter Godfrey-Smith
• Alvin Goldman
• Rom Harré
• John Haugeland
• John Hawthorne
• Martin Heidegger
• David Hume
• Edmund Husserl
• Daniel Hutto
• Mark Johnson
• Joshua Knobe
• Saul Kripke
• Colin McGinn
• Edouard Machery
• Fiona Macpherson
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• Thomas Metzinger
• Thomas Nagel
• Alva Noë
• Jean Piaget
• Gualtiero Piccinini
• Karl Popper
• Jesse Prinz
• Ian Ravenscroft
• Antti Revonsuo
• Tom Rockmore
• Mark Rowlands
• John Searle
• Lawrence Shapiro
• Kim Sterelny
• Stephen Stich
• Galen Strawson
• Paul Thagard
• Evan Thompson
• Michael Tye
• Tim van Gelder
• Heinz von Foerster
• Ernst von Glasersfeld
• Michael Wheeler
• Margaret Dauler Wilson
• Robert Wilson
• Dan Zahavi

Psychology

• Edith Ackermann
• John Robert Anderson
• David Ausubel
• Alan Baddeley
• Paul Baltes
• Simon Baron-Cohen
• Lawrence Barsalou
• Frederic Bartlett
• Aaron T. Beck
• Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bernstein
• Jerome Bruner
• David Buss
• Susan Carey
• Michael Cole
• Allan M. Collins
• Fergus I. M. Craik
• Kenneth Craik
• James E. Cutting
• James Deese
• Andreas Demetriou
• Merlin Donald
• Hermann Ebbinghaus
• Albert Ellis
• Leon Festinger
• Reuven Feuerstein
• Kurt W. Fischer
• John H. Flavell
• Diana Fleischman
• Uta Frith
• Eugene Galanter
• Howard Gardner
• Rochel Gelman
• Dedre Gentner
• Alison Gopnik
• Vittorio Guidano
• Francesca Happé
• Keith Holyoak
• Philip Johnson-Laird
• Daniel Kahneman
• Annette Karmiloff-Smith
• George Kelly
• Kurt Koffka
• Wolfgang Köhler
• Stephen Kosslyn
• Robert L. Leahy
• Alan M. Leslie
• Elizabeth Loftus
• George Mandler
• James McClelland
• Kathleen McDermott
• Jacques Mehler
• Andrew Meltzoff
• David E. Meyer
• Geoffrey Miller
• George A. Miller
• Naomi Miyake
• Ken Nakayama
• Ulric Neisser
• Robert A. Neimeyer
• Allan Paivio
• Elizabeth A. Phelps
• Jean Piaget
• Steven Pinker
• Michael Posner
• Patricia Resick
• Frank Ritter
• Henry L. Roediger III
• Eleanor Rosch
• David Rumelhart
• Daniel Schacter
• Erwin Segal
• Otto Selz
• Roger Shepard
• Richard Shiffrin
• Linda B. Smith
• Maggie Snowling
• Elizabeth Spelke
• George Sperling
• Robert Sternberg
• Saul Sternberg
• Esther Thelen
• Edward C. Tolman
• Michael Tomasello
• Anne Treisman
• Endel Tulving
• Jaan Valsiner
• Lev Vygotsky
• Adrian Wells
• Max Wertheimer
• David Wechsler
• Jeffrey E. Young
• Pyotr Zinchenko

Other categories

• Alfredo Ardila (neuroscience, neuropsychology, anthropology, evolution of cognition)
• Scott Atran (cognitive anthropology)
• Joscha Bach (cognitive science)
• Frederic Bartlett (psychology, social anthropology)
• Justin L. Barrett (cognitive psychology, cognitive anthropology)
• Marc Bekoff (biology, cognitive ethology, behavioral ecology)
• Maurice Bloch (cognitive anthropology)
• Maggie Boden (cognitive science)
• Pascal Boyer (cognitive anthropology)
• Per Aage Brandt (cognitive semiotics)
• Brian Butterworth (speech, dyslexia, mathematics)
• Michael Cole (comparative cognition, cognitive psychology, cultural psychology)
• Frederick L. Coolidge (evolutionary cognitive archaeology, cognitive evolution, behavior genetics)
• Roy D'Andrade (cognitive anthropology)
• Terrence Deacon (neuroanthropology, linguistics)
• Merlin Donald (psychology, anthropology, historical evolution of cognition)
• Fernando Flores (computer science, philosophy)
• John Gowlett (evolutionary cognitive archaeology, evolutionary anthropology)
• Tom Griffiths (computer science, psychology)
• Christopher Robert Hallpike (anthropology)
• Yuval Noah Harari (cognitive evolution, philosophy of artificial intelligence)
• Brian Hare (evolutionary anthropology, evolution of cognition)
• Friedrich Hayek (cognitive psychology, philosophy of perception)
• Cecilia Heyes (cognitive evolution)
• Ludwig Huber (cognitive evolution, cognitive biology)
• Thomas Huffman (ideational cognitive archaeology)
• Edwin Hutchins (cognitive anthropology)
• Paul Jorion (anthropology, sociology)
• Jean Lave (situated cognition, social anthropology)
• Stephen C. Levinson (linguistics, anthropology, psychology)
• David Lewis-Williams (ideational cognitive archaeology)
• Aleksandr Luria (psychology, neuroscience, anthropology)
• Lambros Malafouris (evolutionary cognitive archaeology, philosophy of mind)
• Humberto Maturana (neuroscience, biology of cognition, philosophy)
• Douglas Medin (cognitive psychology, anthropology)
• Steven Mithen (ideational cognitive archaeology)
• Rafael E. Núñez (philosophy of mathematics, linguistics, anthropology)
• Karenleigh A. Overmann (evolutionary cognitive archaeology, cognitive evolution, ethnomathematics, numeracy, literacy)
• Zenon Pylyshyn (engineering, psychology, philosophy)
• Naomi Quinn (cognitive anthropology)
• Colin Renfrew (evolutionary cognitive archaeology, neuroarchaeology)
• Bradd Shore (cognitive anthropology)
• Richard Shweder (cognitive anthropology)
• Dan Sperber (cognitive anthropology)
• Joshua Tenenbaum (computer science, psychology)
• Hideto Tomabechi (brain science, psychophysics, bioinformatics, intelligent informatics, speech recognition, cognitive neuro-engineering)
• Francisco Varela (neuroscience, philosophy)
• Frans de Waal (ethology, primatology, psychology)
• Étienne Wenger (situated cognition, education)
• James V. Wertsch (cognitive psychology, cultural anthropology)
• Douglas White (anthropology)
• Harvey Whitehouse (social anthropology, cognitive psychology, cultural psychology)
• Richard Wrangham (evolutionary anthropology)
• Thomas G. Wynn (evolutionary cognitive archaeology, cognitive evolution, neuroaesthetics)
• Eviatar Zerubavel (cognitive sociology)
• Jennifer Dustow (cognitive behavioral learning specialist)

See also

• List of cognitive neuroscientists
• List of cognitive psychologists
• List of computer scientists
• List of Jean Nicod Prize laureates
• List of linguists
• List of neuroscientists
• List of philosophers
• Thinking-related topics