Thomas Shultz
Professor
Department of Psychology
McGill University
Stewart Biological Sciences Bldg., 1205 Dr Penfield Avenue #W7/3D
tel: 514-398-6139
e-mail: thomas.shultz(at)mcgill.ca
Membership Status
Associate Member
Research Themes
Areas of Expertise
cognitive science, cognitive development, cognitive consistency, and connectionist modeling
Current Research Interests
My students, colleagues, and I study human cognition through a combination of psychological and computational approaches. Basic psychological phenomena are simulated in a connectionist framework, leading to predictions that are tested with humans. Current lines of research concern cognitive development, interactions between knowledge and learning, techniques for analyzing knowledge representations in neural networks, and cognitive consistency phenomena in social psychology.
Selected Publications
- Sirois, S., & Shultz, T. R. (2006). Preschoolers out of adults: Discriminative learning with a cognitive load. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 1357-1377.
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Shultz, T. R. (2006). onstructive learning in the modeling of psychological development. In Y. Munakata & M. H. Johnson (Eds.), Processes of change in brain and cognitive development: Attention and performance XXI (pp. 61-86). Oxford, U.K: Oxford University Press.
- Shultz, T. R. (2003). Computational developmental psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
