Stevan Harnad
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Harnad in 2014
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June 2, 1945 Budapest, Hungary |
| Residence | Montréal, Canada |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Fields | Cognitive science |
| Institutions | Université du Québec à Montréal, University of Southampton |
| Alma mater | McGill University, Princeton University |
| Thesis | Grounding Symbolic Representation in Categorical Perception (1992) |
| Influences | Donald O. Hebb, Julian Jaynes, Noam Chomsky, Alan Turing, Charles Darwin |
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Stevan Robert Harnad (Hernád István Róbert, Hesslein István, born June 2, 1945, Budapest) is a cognitive scientist.
Harnad was born in Budapest, Hungary. He did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University's Department of Psychology. Harnad completed his Master of Arts degree in Psychology from McGill University in 1969, his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Princeton University in 1992. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by University of Liège in 2013.
Harnad's research interests are in cognitive science and open access. He is currently professor of psychology at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and professor of cognitive science at the University of Southampton. Elected external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2001 (resigned, 8 October 2016), he was Canada Research Chair in cognitive science 2001-2015. His research is on categorization, communication,cognition, and consciousness and he has written extensively on categorical perception, symbol grounding, origin of language, lateralization, the Turing test, distributed cognition, scientometrics, and consciousness. Harnad is a former student of Donald O. Hebb and Julian Jaynes.
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