A brief biography for Dr. Stevan Harnard
STEVAN HARNAD was born in Hungary and grew up in Montreal. He did
his undergraduate work at McGill and his graduate work at
Princeton. Since 1994 he is Professor of Psychology and Director of
the Cognitive Sciences Centre at the University of Southampton. His
research is on categorisation, communication and cognition.
Founder and Editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Cambridge
University Press), Psycoloquy (sponsored by the American
Psychological Association) and the CogPrints Electronic Preprint
Archive in the Cognitive Sciences (supported by JISC), he is Past
President of the Society for Philosopy and Psychology and author and
contributor to over 80 scientific publications, including Origins
and Evolution of Language and Speech (NY Acad Sci 1976),
Lateralization in the Nervous System (Acad Pr 1977), Peer
Commentary on Peer Review: A Case Study in Scientific Quality
Control (CUP 1982), Categorical Perception: The Groundwork of
Cognition (CUP 1987), The Selection of Behavior: The Operant
Behaviorism of BF Skinner: Comments and Consequences (CUP 1988) and
Icon, Category, Symbol: Essays on the Foundations and Fringes of
Cognition (CUP in prep).
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