Autonomous Mental Development
Task Forces

AMD Newsletters Task Force:

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (Chair), INRIA, France (pierre-yves.oudeyer@inria.fr)

Speech and Auditory Processing Task Force:

Stephen Levinson (chair), University of Illinois, Urbana, USA (sel@ifp.uiuc.edu)

Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, USA

James L. McClelland, Stanford University, USA

Alex P. Pentland, The Media Lab., MIT, USA

Ida Stockman, Michigan State University, USA

Juyang Weng, Michigan State University, USA

Yilu Zhang, GM Research and Development, USA

Visual Processing Task Force:

Juyang Weng (chair), Michigan State University (weng@cse.msu.edu)

Narendra Ahuja, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, USA

David J. Field, Cornell University, USA

Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, USA

Thomas S. Huang, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

Anil K. Jain, Michigan State University, USA

Risto Miikkulainen, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Alex P. Pentland, The Media Lab., MIT, USA

Tomaso Poggio, The Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT, USA

Tieniu Tan, National Lab of Pattern Recognition, Beijing, China

Mitch Wilkes, Vanderbilt University, USA

Yilu Zhang, GM Research and Development, USA

Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Research, USA

Languages and Language Acquisition Task Force:

Kim Plunkett (chair), Oxford University, UK (kim.plunkett@psy.ox.ac.uk)

James L. McClelland, Stanford University, USA

Thomas R. Shultz, McGill University, Canada

Ida Stockman, Michigan State University, USA

Developmental Psychology Task Force

Thomas R. Shultz (Chair), McGill University (thomas.shultz@mcgill.ca)

Gedeon O. Deák, University of California, San Diego, USA

Denis Mareschal, Birkbeck College, UK

Kim Plunkett, Oxford University, UK

Matthew Schlesinger, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA

Sylvain Sirois, University of Manchester, USA

Linda B. Smith, Indiana University, USA

John P. Spencer, University of Iowa, USA

Gert Westermann, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Self-organization in Development Task Force:

Risto Miikkulainen (Chair), The University of Texas at Austin, USA (risto@cs.utexas.edu)

Christian Balkenius, Lund University, Sweden

Luc Berthouze, Neuroscience Research Institute AIST, Japan

Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, USA

Stan Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Alex Pentland, MIT, USA

Christopher G. Prince, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA

Brian Scassellati, Yale University, USA

Thomas Shultz, University of McGill, Canada

Mike Spratling, University of London, UK

Mriganka Sur, MIT, USA

Dave Touretzky, CMU, USA

Juyang Weng, Michigan State University, USA

Lide Wu, Fudan University, China

Adaptive Motivational Systems Task Force:

Olaf Sporns (chair), Indiana University, USA (osporns@indiana.edu)

Kenji Doya, RIKEN, Japan

Jean-Marc Fellous, Salk Institute, USA

Stan Franklin, The University of Memphis, USA

Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, USA

Michael Hasselmo, Boston University, USA

Edgar Korner, Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany

Read Montague, Baylor College of Medicine, UK

Eytan Ruppin, Tel Aviv Univ. Israel

Gert Westermann, Birkbeck College, UK

Reasoning and Inference Task Force:

Yilu Zhang (chair), GM Research and Development. (yilu.zhang@gm.com)

Dana H. Ballard, Rochester University, USA
Paul Cohen, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA

Stan Z. Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Michael Merzenich, Keck Center for Interactive Neuroscience, UCSF, USA

Alex P. Pentland, The Media Lab., MIT, USA

Deb Roy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Enrique H. Ruspini, Stanford Research Institute, USA
Tom  Shultz, McGill University, Canada
Juyang Weng, Michigan State University, USA

Attention and Joint Attention Task Force:

Zhengyou Zhang (chair), Microsoft Research, USA (zhang@microsoft.com)

Minoru Asada, Osaka University, Japan (asada@ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp)  
Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire, UK (K.Dautenhahn@herts.ac.uk)  
Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, USA (steve@cns.bu.edu)  
Frederic  Kaplan, Sony CSL Paris, France (kaplan@csl.sony.fr)

Hideki Kozima, Communications Research Lab. Japan (xkozima@nict.go.jp)

Risto Miikkulainen, The University of Texas at Austin, USA (risto@cs.utexas.edu)

Robotics Task Force:

Minoru Asada (chair), Osaka University, Japan (asada@ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp)

Luc Berthouze, Neuroscience Research Institute AIST, Japan
Rodney Brooks, The Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT, USA
Yiannis Demiris, Imperial College London, UK
Roderic Grupen, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
Hideki Kozima, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Maja J. Mataric, University of Southern California, USA
Rolf Pfeifer, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Brian Scassellati, Yale University, USA
Stefan Schaal, University of South California, USA
Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University, USA
Dave Touretzky, CS, CMU, USA
Juyang Weng, Michigan State University, USA
Ming Xie, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore