Thomas R. Shultz

Professor


Stewart Biological Sciences Bldg.
Room W7/3D, 398-6139
thomas.shultz at mcgill.ca
http://www.psych.mcgill.ca/perpg/fac/shultz/personal/default.htm

Research Areas

Cognition-Language-Perception, Developmental, Social-Personality, Quantitative-Modeling

Research Summary

Prof. Shultz is interested in cognitive science, cognitive development, cognitive consistency, and connectionist modeling.  Current projects include belief perseverance, cognitive balance phenomena, stimulus familiarization in infants, and the relation between knowledge and learning.

Selected References

Shultz, T. R., Hartshorn, M., & Hammond, R. A. (2008)  Stages in the evolution of ethnocentrism. In Love, B. C., McRae,  K., & Sloutsky,  V. M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1244-1249). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

 

Shultz, T. R., Thivierge, J. P., & Laurin, K. (2008)  Acquisition of concepts with characteristic and defining features. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 531-536). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

 

Berthiaume, V. G., Onishi, K. H., & Shultz, T. R. (2008)  A computational developmental model of the implicit false belief task. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 825-830). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

 

Shultz, T. R., & Sirois, S. (2008)  Computational models of developmental psychology. In R. Sun (Ed.), The Cambridge handbook of computational psychology (pp. 451-476). New York: Cambridge University Press.      

 


Updated: March 1, 2010
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