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Lera Boroditsky
Lera is the short dictator of Cognation - a sovereign state devoted to
the study of Cognition. In
her
spare time she likes to impersonate a professor of Cognitive Psychology at
Stanford.
Please be sure to sing
along with the
cognational anthem.
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Alexia Toskos Dils
Alexia is a post-doc in psychology interested in perceptual
grounding, embodiment, language, and how it all gets that way. Despite
her name, Alexia can still read, which is disappointing as that would
indeed be a spectacular effect of language on cognition. She is, however,
Greek as her name suggests (phew! at least we have an effect of language
on nationality!)
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Steve Flusberg
Steve likes to think about thinking. When he's not careful he starts
thinking about how we think about thinking. When he's not feeling quite
so meta, he just tries to get inside other's minds. Sometimes we fear he
takes these metaphors a bit too literally (see photo at left).
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Paul Thibodeau
Paul is a graduate student in Psychology interested in metaphor and mental
representation. Paul comes to us from Swarthmore where he began his
career in metaphor by studying the careers of metaphors. When not busy
giving career counseling to metaphors, Paul spends his time speaking
Mandarin Chinese, and quietly plotting world domination (you've gotta
watch out for the quiet ones).
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Cherish Madu
Cherish comes to us from Rutgers, where she did cool thesis research on
language and color perception. In her PhD work at Stanford, she is
interested in culture, proverbs, and relational reasoning. Does speaking
in proverbs make you smarter? Do lizards eat yams after the rain?
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Long Ouyang
Long is a probability distribution. At any given moment, he might be
working on a PhD at Stanford, with possible interests in mental
representation, reasoning, language, problem solving, humor, and bribing
maitre d's at restaurants. Is he a normal distribution, an infinitely
divisible one, a Dirichlet? Stay tuned as we collect more samples...
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Justine Kao
Justine is a Stanfordite. After getting her bachelors with honors in
Symbolic Systems, she decided to stick around as a graduate student in
Psychology. She aims to discover the computational principles of poetic
beauty in metaphor. If you write any poetry, it’s better not to send it
to Justine. You never know when she’ll develop the algorithm that tells
you if it’s any good.
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Paul Hömke
Paul is visiting our lab from the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen. His
research project is looking at whether the past can be made more visible
for English speakers with new metaphors that put the past in front of the
body. When not busy trying to reverse the direction of time, Paul
collects languages: German, English, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, French,
and MATLAB.
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