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

• 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

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)