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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