Projects
Resonance
The Meaning of Information
Enabling Constraints
Embodiment and Split Brains
Cross-Modal Illusions
Ecological psychology and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis seem to hold the key to understanding why we evolved in such a way that we are capable of experiencing cross-modal illusions – where what we perceive with one sensory modality has a noticeable effect on what we perceive with one or more other modalities. This project seeks to evaluate the hypothesis that our visual perceptual system may have evolved through the exaptation of many of the same situated behaviours and neural mechanisms which underwrite our olfactory perceptual system.
The Cognitive Science of Cognitive Science
This project studies cognitive scientific explanations: what they do, and how they work. To do this, it blends traditional philosophical approaches (like the study of scientific theories and the analysis of scientific concepts) with psychological ones (like the study of lay-people's explanations and the role of concepts in cognition). At root, it is an attempt to treat scientific explanation as a cognitive phenomenon, and to study it with the methods that cognitive phenomena call for.
Questions? Contact Andrew Richmond! You can also check out our Past Projects, and some of our other Activities (like courses and reading groups).
And this interview is a guide to some of our central topics, the way the lab works, and how we do science and philosophy:
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