Stevan Harnad

Professor Steven Harnad (István Hernád) - born June 2, 1945 in Budapest - is a Hungarian-born cognitive scientist. He did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University (PhD 1991). He is currently Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Southampton and Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Sciences at Université du Québec à Montréal.

His research is on categorisation, communication and cognition.

Founder and Editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (a paper journal published by Cambridge University Press), Psycoloquy (an electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association) and the CogPrints Electronic Preprint Archive in the Cognitive Sciences