ICSC 2009 - Curricula

Giulio Lancioni

Gianluca Stamerra — Sat, 30 May 2009 08:50:29 GMT

Giulio Lancioni is professor of General Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Bari. He has previously worked at the University of Leiden in The Netherlands. His research interests concern the development and assessment of new technologies for enabling persons with severe and profound intellectual and multiple disabilities to engage in constructive activity, to reach basic communication and interaction objectives, and to make choice. The aforementioned technology includes micro-switches, VOCAs, micro-switch clusters, computerized instruction systems, and computer-supported choice systems.

Barbara Tversky

Gianluca Stamerra — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:41:10 GMT

Barbara Tversky is Professor of Psychology at Columbia Teachers
College and Professor Emerita at Stanford University. She received
her PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Michigan and
taught at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was primarily based at
Stanford University for more than 25 years. Her research has included
memory, categorization, spatial language and cognition, event
perception and cognition, diagrammatic reasoning, and creativity, with
applications to human-computer interaction, education, eye-witness
testimony, design, and more, through collaborations with computer
scientists, linguists, philosophers, architects, designers,
biologists, chemists, geographers, and more.

Dedre Gentner

Gianluca Stamerra — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:28:33 GMT

Dedre Gentner, the Twight Professor of Psychology and Education at Northwestern University, is a leading researcher in cognition and learning. Her structure-mapping theory of analogical processing has been highly influential in research on analogy and on learning and transfer. The theory has been successfully applied in a broad range of arenas, from children’s learning to scientific discovery. Much of her current work explores the use of structure-mapping processes in spatial learning and cognition.

Professional Preparation
1962-1967 University of California, Berkeley B.A., Physics
1967-1968 University of Chicago Social Sciences
1970-1974 University of California, San Diego Ph.D., Psychology

Appointments
2007-present Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor of Psychology and Education, Northwestern University
1990-present Professor of Psychology, Professor of Education; Director, Cognitive Science Program, Northwestern University
2006 Fellow, Rockefeller Institute, Bellagio, Italy
1999-2000 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
1989-1990 Professor of Psychology, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
1984-1989 Assoc. Prof. of Psychology, Univ. of IL at Urbana-Champaign.
1977-1982 Scientist, Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.
1974-1977 Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Washington.
1968-1970 Teacher, Achimota Preparatory School, Achimota, Ghana.

Publications
Over 100 journal articles and chapters, including

[1] Gentner, D., Levine, S., Dhillon, S., Poltermann, A. (in press). Using structural alignment to facilitate learning of spatial concepts in an informal setting. Paper to be presented at the 2nd International Analogy Conference. Sofia, Bulgaria.
[2] Gentner, D., Loewenstein, J., Thompson, L., & Forbus, K. (in press). Reviving inert knowledge: Analogical encoding supports relational retrieval of past events. Cognitive Science.
[3] Day, S. & Gentner, D. (2007). Nonintentional analogical inference in text comprehension. Memory and Cognition, 35, 39-49.
[4] Gentner, D., Loewenstein, J., & Hung, B. (2006). Comparison facilitates children’s learning of names for parts. Journal of Cognition and Development, 7(2).
[5] Bowdle, B., & Gentner, D. (2005). The career of metaphor. Psychological Review, 112, 193-216.
[6] Gentner, D. (2003). Why we’re so smart. In D. Gentner and S. Goldin-Meadow (Eds.), Language in mind: Advances in the study of language and cognition (pp. 195-235). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
[7] Gentner, D., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (Eds.) (2003). Language in mind: Advances in the study of language and thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
[8] Gentner, D., Loewenstein, J., & Thompson, L. (2003). Learning and transfer: A general role for analogical encoding. Journal of Educational Psychology 95 (2), 393-408.
[9] Gentner, D., Holyoak, K. J., & Kokinov, B. N. (Eds.). (2001). The analogical mind: Perspectives from cognitive science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
[10] Gentner, D., & Medina, J. (1998). Similarity and the development of rules. Cognition, 65, 263-297.
[11] Gentner, D., & Markman, A. B. (1997). Structure mapping in analogy and similarity. American Psychologist, 52, 45-56.
[12] Gentner, D. (1983). Structure-mapping: A theoretical framework for analogy. Cognitive Science, 7, 155-170.

Juan Lupiañez

Gianluca Stamerra — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:18:08 GMT

Juan Lupiáñez is professor of Psychology at the Department of Experimental Psychology, at the University of Granada, since 2000. He graduated in Psychology in 1991 by the University of Granada. His PhD work was supervised by Pío Tudela at the University of Granada and focused on inhibition of return. Afterwards he spent long periods of time at the University of Wales, Bangor (UK), working with Steve P. Tipper, at McMaster University (Canada), collaborating with Bruce Milliken, at Oxford University (UK), with Charles Spence, and he recently spent a sabbatical at the French INSERM in Paris, working in collaboration with Paolo Bartolomeo.
His research focus on different topics of attention (attentional networks, spatial and temporal attention, alertness, attention and emotion, cognitive control) with a special interest on spatial attention and inhibition of return.
He has been secretary of the Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology (SEPEX) and he is currently Local officer for Spain of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP).

Marcia J. Scherer

Gianluca Stamerra — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:01:35 GMT

Dr. Scherer develops measures for matching individuals with disabilities with assistive and other technologies that best match their needs and preferences. She is author of the books Living in the State of Stuck: How Assistive Technology Impacts the Lives of People with Disabilities and Connecting to Learn: Educational and Assistive Technology for People with Disabilities. She edits the journal Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology. Dr. Scherer is Fellow of the American Psychological Association in Rehabilitation Psychology as well as in Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology and in Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics. She is also a Fellow of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA).