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"Let me see if I understand your thesis. You think we shouldn’t anthropomorphize people?" - Sidney Morgenbesser to B. F. Skinner

"The notion that one can capture some aspect of reality by making a description of it using a symbol and that to do so can be useful seems to me a fascinating and powerful idea." - David Marr

Mentalism and computationalism...two pretty good ideas.

Research

Research interests: the cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, and evolution of theory of mind and social attention; foundations of cognitive science

Types of experiments: reaction time, eye tracking, functional imaging

Participants: Usually "WEIRD" people but also development (studying infants and preschoolers) and different cultures (comparing the psychological systems of Westerners and Easterners). Recently, I've collected some patient data on adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

Publications

	German, T.C. & Cohen, A.S. (2012). A cue-based approach to ‘theory of mind’: Re-examining the notion of automaticity. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 30, 45-58. [pdf]
	Cohen, A.S. & German, T.C. (2010). Reaction time advantages for calculating beliefs over public representations signal domain specificity for ‘theory of mind’. Cognition, 115, 417-425. [pdf]
	Cohen, A.S. & German, T.C. (2009). Encoding of others' beliefs without overt instruction. Cognition, 111, 356-363. [pdf]
	Lee, K., Yoshida, T., Kubicki, M., Bouix, S., Westin, C., Kindlmann, G., Niznikiewicz, M., Cohen, A., McCarley, R.W., & Shenton, M.E. (2009). Increased diffusivity in superior temporal gyrus in patients with schizophrenia: A diffusion tensor imaging study. Schizophrenia Research, 108, 33-40. [pdf]
	Nakamura, M., Nestor, P.G., Levitt, J.J., Cohen, A.S., Kawashima, T., Shenton, M.E., McCarley, R.W. (2008). Orbitofrontal volume deficit in schizophrenia and thought disorder. Brain, 131, 180-195. [pdf]
	Han, S.D., Nestor, P.G., Hale-Spencer, M., Cohen, A.S., Niznikiewicz, M., McCarley, R.W., & Wible, C.G. (2007). Functional imaging of word priming in males with chronic schizophrenia. Neuroimage, 35, 273-282. [pdf]
	Leslie, A.M., Knobe, J., & Cohen, A. (2006). Acting intentionally and the side-effect effect: 'Theory of mind' and moral judgment. Psychological Science, 17, 421–427. [pdf]