Richard Martin Shiffrin

I am a cognitive scientist who carries out studies of cognition (e.g. short and long term memory, learning, attention, automaticity, decision making, perception). I try to understand the immense complexities of cognition by building and testing quantitative models that attempt to capture the most important causal factors that produce the data. I have subsidiary but important research on scientific methodology, especially methods to evaluate models, including Bayesian induction. I have other research on rationality, quantum cognition, multi-agent decision making, social and brain networks, methods to relate brain structure to function, study of factors that cause confusions of correlation and causation, methods to find patterns in large data sets, methods to find causal explanations of such patterns, methods to display patterns in Big Data in ways that inform understanding, and ways to assess and deal with problems of reproducibility in science.