Our CogNovo Research Fellows are drawn from across the world and from many disciplines and research interests
I am primarily interested in the role counterfactual thinking plays in deception and, aim to develop novel measurement techniques to aid this field of study (more)
PROJECT 18: The role of counterfactual thinking in deception
I am interested in the shared and unique aspects of human mind and exploring the basis of talent and outstanding ability (more)
PROJECT 15: Predicting creativity from spatial ability & personality
My work at CogNovo is centered on the field of developmental robotics. I am working on project #11, where I aim to build curious and creative robots (more)
PROJECT 11 : Developing creativity in cognitive robots
My research interests revolve around exploring and understanding the affective potential of the moving image, especially historical moving images. (more)
PROJECT 10: Early cinema and cognitive creativity
I am interested in the way in which people make decisions in difficult and emotionally aversive situations. (more)
PROJECT 19: Moral cognition: An interdisciplinary investigation of judgement versus action
I am interested in the workings of the 5-HT system and its contributions to perception and cognition (for instance, creativity and neuroplasiticity). Furthermore, philosophy of science and mind capture my deepest curiosity. (more)
PROJECT 14: Irrationality and decision-making
I am interested in how the brain works; my master thesis investigated the impact of intrinsically generated pictorial insight on memory encoding. I am also a filmmaker and writing my first screenplay. (more)
PROJECT 13: Creative technologies for behaviour change
The main focus of Agi's work is the design of the human body (more)
PROJECT 24: Ideas exchange: Understanding The Human Object
I am interested in how people conduct high-level cognition in complex social interaction and the combination of social and high-level function also is a close fit with my interests. (more)
I am a computational neuroscientist with a background in computer science. My research is focused around computational modelling of higher brain functions (more)
PROJECT 4: Neurally inspired algorithms of human cognition and problem solving
Jacqueline Knight is working on Project 23. (more)
PROJECT 23: Understanding the decisive moment: a unified experience of simultaneity
Francois has a background in Computer Science and his passion for Neuroscience and has developed a strong interest in Artificial Neural Networks; more recently, he has focused on decision-making processes and the effect of emotions on them (more)
PROJECT 3: Modelling creative decision making
Frank's research interest focuses on the moment people experience that they just found a solution to a previously unsolvable problem. (more)
PROJECT 16: Unconscious creativity: The Eureka moment
Klara Łucznik is a psychologist and a contemporary dancer. She is interested in mental and social processes in creation and perception of dance (more)
PROJECT 7: Shared Creativity and Flow in Dance
Diego S. Maranan is an artist, academic, and activist who works in the area of human-technology interaction, specifically around creative practice, movement research, sustainable technology, and digital media installation (more)
PROJECT 8: Bodyshaping the mind
My research is focused on Computational Neuroscience, specifically: mining the structure of neural networks to acquire information about the activity of neurons within them. (more)
PROJECT 17: Schemata and their applications
His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Robotics and Machine Learning. In his CogNovo project, he will be searching for an intuitive interface for robotic remote control. (more)
PROJECT 25: A Framework for Intuitive Remote Robotic Control
I am currently interested in studying cognition of children and adolescents, creativity of children and I am also interested in critical approaches to methods of studying psychology, particularly developmental psychology. (more)
PROJECT 6: Creativity through social interaction
My current and previous work centres around a transdisciplinary approach to human auditory meaning making. CogNovo has given me an opportunity to explore. (more)
PROJECT 12: Creative solutions in alarm design
My professional interests circle around topics like imagination and image making, neuroplasticity, media variantology, philosophy and history of science visualisations and practices, migration processes and translations of any kind (more)
PROJECT 22: Hypnotic images. A story of intimate spaces, visual biases and subjectivity.
Michael Straeubig is a game designer/creative coder exploring games and playful experiences in various media (more)
PROJECT 9: Designing Playful Systems in Mixed Reality
I will investigate bistable visual and auditory perception in relation with executive functions, personality and creativity and look for individual differences in switching patterns in children and adults (more)
PROJECT 5: Individual differences in visual and auditory bistability
My first degree is in Languages and Linguistic Sciences. Apart from studying English, Russian and Spanish, I also have an MA in Phonetics and Phonology; my dissertation was on the acoustic and perceptual properties of Smiling Voice, i.e. speech uttered while smiling (more)
PROJECT 21: Creating a voice for engagement and trust
As an engineer and a neuroscientist, I am driven by a desire to understand how creative individuals make decisions when faced with preference-based alternatives. (more)
PROJECT 1: Value judgments and creative thinking
I am interested in exploring how we learn about non-informative cues and how this relates to measures of creative thinking. (more)
PROJECT 20: Attention, associative learning and creativity