# 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
* Todd Rose
* 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
* Todd Rose

## 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)