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Overview

Stevan Harnad is affiliated with the University of Quebec at Montreal in Canada. Their research spans several interconnected areas within cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

Thematically, their work covers topics such as:

  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Neurobiology of language and bilingualism
  • Child and animal learning development
  • Artificial intelligence in healthcare and education
  • Embodied and extended cognition
  • Cognitive science and mapping
  • Cognitive science and education research

Harnad's research is rooted in fields including:

  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Cultural studies
  • Developmental and educational psychology
  • Health informatics
  • Artificial intelligence

They have collaborated with several researchers, with frequent co-authors being:

  • Itiel E. Dror
  • Roger Bartra
  • Fernanda Pérez-Gay Juárez
  • Tomy Sicotte

Publication venues where Stevan Harnad has contributed include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Animal Sentience
  • Mente y Cultura

Recent papers authored by Harnad provide insight into their evolving study interests and include:

  • Language writ large: LLMs, ChatGPT, meaning, and understanding (2025) in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
  • Language Writ Large: LLMs, ChatGPT, Grounding, Meaning and Understanding (2024) in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Insentient "cognition"? (2023) in Animal Sentience
  • Are Psychological Variables Relevant to Evaluating Geoinformatics Applications? The Case of Landmarks (Vision Paper) (2022) in Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • On theexocerebrum (2020) in Mente y Cultura

Best Publications

  • The symbol grounding problem

    Stevan Harnad

  • Categorical Perception: The Groundwork of Cognition

    Stevan R. Harnad

  • Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals

    Stevan Harnad;Tim Brody

  • Lateralization in the nervous system

    Stevan Harnad;R.W. Doty;L. Goldstein;J. Jaynes

  • Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research

    Yassine Gargouri;Chawki Hajjem;Vincent Larivière;Yves Gingras

  • The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access☆

    Stevan Harnad;Tim Brody;François Vallières;Les Carr

  • Post-Gutenberg Galaxy: The Fourth Revolution in the Means of Production of Knowledge

    Stevan Harnad

  • Earlier Web Usage Statistics as Predictors of Later Citation Impact

    Tim Brody;Stevan Harnad;Leslie Carr

  • Scholarly Skywriting and the Prepublication Continuum of Scientific Inquiry

    Stevan Harnad

  • To Cognize is to Categorize: Cognition is Categorization

    Stevan Harnad

  • Origins and Evolution of Language and Speech

    Stevan R. Harnad;Horst D. Steklis;Jane Beckman Lancaster

  • Psychophysical and cognitive aspects of categorical perception: A critical overview

    Stevan Harnad

  • The self-archiving initiative

    Stevan Harnad

  • Implementing peer review on the net: scientific quality control in scholarly electronic journals

    Stevan Harnad

  • Ten-Year Cross-Disciplinary Comparison of the Growth of Open Access and How it Increases Research Citation Impact

    Chawki Hajjem;Stevan Harnad;Yves Gingras

  • The Selection of Behavior: The Operant Behaviorism of B. F. Skinner: Comments and Consequences

    A.C. Catania;S Harnad

  • Minds, machines, and Searle

    Stevan Harnad

  • Categorical Perception Effects Induced by Category Learning

    Kenneth R. Livingston;Janet K. Andrews;Stevan Harnad

  • The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access: An Update

    Stevan Harnad;Tim Brody;François Vallières;Les Carr

  • The Adaptive Advantage of Symbolic Theft Over Sensorimotor Toil: Grounding Language in Perceptual Categories

    Angelo Cangelosi;Stevan Harnad

Frequent Co-Authors

Yves Gingras
Yves Gingras University of Quebec at Montreal
Charles Oppenheim
Charles Oppenheim Robert Gordon University
Wendy Hall
Wendy Hall University of Southampton
Angelo Cangelosi
Angelo Cangelosi University of Manchester
Edward F. Pace-Schott
Edward F. Pace-Schott Harvard University
Vincent Larivière
Vincent Larivière University of Montreal
Nigel Shadbolt
Nigel Shadbolt University of Oxford
Itiel E. Dror
Itiel E. Dror University College London
Carl Lagoze
Carl Lagoze University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee University of Oxford

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