Overview
I am a cognitive scientist, father, two-bit philosopher, and bad artist from Dublin, Ireland. My principal professional interests lie in helping to develop a cognitive science that does justice to the reality of subjective experience. I have particular interests in rhythm, speech, language, enaction, ecological psychology, and the metaphysical basis of experience. I am an unreformed anti-representationalist and I think in terms of dynamic systems theory.
My professional activities are described in the above tabs. Links to various websites I maintain, contribute to, or am in some way associated with are on the right.
Here’s a video of a talk I gave on rhythm in speech to the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society, in April 2011.
I have recently released a connectionist simulator for use in teaching the basics of artificial neural networks. Basic Prop Version 1.0.