The International Advisory
Board's role is to guarantee high standards of research and education at the
Department of Cognitive Science, strong international relations of the
Department and international recognition of the degrees awarded by the Graduate
Program of Cognitive Science at NBU. The main activities of the Board are the
following:
- peer review of educational programs and
course syllabi
- external examination of graduating students
- visiting lectures at NBU
- evaluating the candidates for positions at
the Department
- reviewing the research plans of the
Department
International Advisory Board
Members:
Lawrence
Barsalou (Emory University, USA)
Amedeo
Cappelli (Institute of Computational Linguistics, CNR, Pisa, Italy)
Cristiano
Castelfranchi (Institute of Psychology, CNR, Roma, Italy)
Daniel
Dennett (Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA)
Ennio
De Renzi (University of Modena, Italy)
Charles
De Weert (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Jeffrey
Elman (University of California at San Diego, USA)
Christian
Freksa (Hamburg University, Germany)
Robert M.
French (University of Liege, Belgium)
Dedre
Gentner (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA)
Christopher
Habel (Hamburg University, Germany)
William
Hirst (New School for Social Research, USA)
Joachim
Hohnsbein (Dortmund University, Germany)
Douglas
Hofstadter (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
Keith
Holyoak (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Mark
Keane (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
Alan
Lesgold (University of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA)
Willem
Levelt (Max-Plank Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
James
McClelland (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)
David
Rumelhart (Stanford University, California, USA)
Richard
Shiffrin (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
Paul
Smolensky (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
Chris
Thornton (University of Sussex, Brighton, England)
Michael
Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany)
Carlo
Umilta' (University of Padova, Italy)
Eran
Zaidel (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Rainer
Goebel (University of Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Herbert
Schriefers (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands)