Editing Stevan Harnad (section)

== Research ==
Harnad's research interests are in [[cognitive science]], [[open access]] and [[Animal consciousness|animal sentience]].<ref name="googlescholar">{{GoogleScholar|_HQz-vEAAAAJ}}</ref><ref name="dblp">{{DBLP|name=Stevan Harnad}}</ref> He is currently professor of psychology at [[Université du Québec à Montréal]] (UQAM), [[McGill University]], and professor emeritus of cognitive science at the [[University of Southampton]]. Elected external member of the [[Hungarian Academy of Sciences]] in 2001 (resigned in protest, 8 October 2016<ref name="apnews.com">{{Cite web |date=2016-10-20 |title=Nobel winner joins scientists' protest of Hungarian policies |url=https://apnews.com/article/-----8b425fded59840d9b5c37817cdd293b1 |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=AP NEWS |language=en}}</ref>), he was [[Canada Research Chair]] in [[cognitive science]] 2001–2015. His research is on [[categorization]],<ref>Harnad, Stevan (2005).  [http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11725/ To Cognize is to Categorize: Cognition is Categorization.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208075219/http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11725/ |date=8 February 2012 }} in Lefebvre, C. and Cohen, H., Eds. ''Handbook of Categorization''. Elsevier.</ref> communication,<ref>Cangelosi, Angelo and Harnad, Stevan (2001). [http://cogprints.org/2036/ The adaptive advantage of symbolic theft over sensorimotor toil: Grounding language in perceptual categories.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417123628/http://cogprints.org/2036/ |date=17 April 2016 }} ''Evolution of Communication'' 4(1) 117-142</ref> [[cognition]],<ref>Harnad, Stevan (2006). [http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/7741/ The Annotation Game: On Turing (1950) on Computing, Machinery, and Intelligence.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309115054/http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/7741/ |date=9 March 2012 }} In: Epstein, Robert & Peters, Grace (Eds.) ''Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer''. Springer</ref> and [[consciousness]]<ref>Harnad, Stevan & Scherzer, Peter (2008). [http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14430/ First, Scale Up to the Robotic Turing Test, Then Worry About Feeling.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208075237/http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14430/ |date=8 February 2012 }} ''Artificial Intelligence in Medicine'' 44(2): 83-89</ref> and he has written extensively on [[categorical perception]], [[symbol grounding]], [[origin of language]], [[lateralization of brain function|lateralization]], the [[Turing test]], [[Socially Distributed Cognition|distributed cognition]], [[scientometrics]], and [[consciousness]]. Harnad is a former student of [[Donald O. Hebb]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cogprints.org/1652/1/hebb.html|title=D.O. Hebb (1904 - 1985)|work=cogprints.org|access-date=21 October 2015}}</ref> and [[Julian Jaynes]].<ref>[http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/16601/3/julian%2Dvoices.pdf What It Feels Like To Hear Voices: Fond Memories of Julian Jaynes] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309114445/http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/16601/3/julian%2Dvoices.pdf |date=9 March 2012 }}</ref>