Constance/Connie focuses on researching intrapersonal communication, or how we use communication-like behaviors to influence the self, actively process our perceptual experiences, and curate our qualia as part of the complex human consciousness system. These behaviors may be inclusive of many modalities, including verbally through typing, journaling, or speaking to the self, imagining interactions, visualizations, and other mentalizations (even interoceptive awareness and mindfulness). Her ongoing dissertation work focuses primarily on streams-of-consciousness reported through language, analyzed through computational linguistic and temporal dynamics methods. She has a background studying music psychology at Harvard University under Dr. Samuel Mehr, examining human song from a developmental and evolutionary perspective. She additionally has a background in musical performance in various genres, holding a Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance from Boston University. Other previous research of hers has included auditory illusions and the perception and memorability of visual scenes and infographics (MIT under Dr. Aude Oliva), and perception of emotional communication such as group-generated vocalizations (UCLA, Dr. Greg Bryant).

Nora’s scholarship centers around the question of how we, as humans, construct meaningful categories: how these labels do and don't serve us, letting us make sense out of senselessness, connecting us with our identities and communities, enabling us to communicate and advocate, but also leading us astray, dividing us, and forestalling progress. She has investigated these questions from the perspectives of child development, linguistic relativity, neurodiversity, education policy, self-communication, and others. She also incorporates perspectives from humanistic and artistic lines, for example, through serious study of music and voice, writing about cognitive science in fiction, and personal exploration and communal leadership in spaces dedicated to her own Jewish and queer identities. She holds a BA in Linguistics from University College London, a PhD in Cognitive Psychology/Cognitive Science from Rutgers University, and completed postdoctoral research in Literacy Education Policy at New York University. She is also a proud alum of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute. She currently teaches in the Psychology departments at Columbia University and New York University and collaborates on research, writing, and community-building projects across institutions and disciplines.

Jack is a PhD student of Cognitive Science at UCSD. His research interests include how social interaction shapes and is shaped by cognition. He currently focuses on how children acquire the practices and norms that constitute our species' distinct way of conducting social interaction. Previously, he received his Bachelors in Cognitive Science at Dartmouth College, studied the interaction between humans and autonomous vehicle technology at MIT, and worked as a product manager and NLP engineer in industry.

Rick is a cognitive scientist in the Department of Communication at UCLA. His research involves quantifying the dynamics of cognition, with a focus on human communication. His research has touched upon language's many levels of complexity: from how it evolved, to how we carry out brief conversations. He is also interested in a wide range of other topics, such as the interface between language and action, cognitive dynamics, and theoretical issues in cognitive science. Rick and collaborators use diverse research methods, including computational modeling, analysis of naturalistic behavior, and human experimentation. These techniques can tap into a diverse range of language-related phenomena with students and collaborators: conversation, thinking in language, sentence processing, word categorization, and deception. Rick's work is motivated by the ideas and tools used in the study of complex dynamical systems. He has also taken interest in theoretical issues tying together dynamics with classical theories of cognition in a more pragmatic, plural approach to cognitive science.