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John E Hummel is a Professor in the Department of Psychology within the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with office location at 308 Psychology Building, Champaign, IL. His research program bridges theoretical and empirical investigations of human cognition.
Education:
- PhD, University of Minnesota
Hummel's research centers on relational representation as the cornerstone of human cognition, investigating how neural architectures encode and manipulate relational structures across visual perception and higher reasoning. His work examines object-part relations in visual recognition, analogical mapping through computational models like LISA (Learning and Inference with Schemas and Analogies), and the development of relational concepts via the DORA model. He integrates symbolic and neural network approaches to explain phenomena ranging from cognitive development to explanation generation.
His 2023 publications reveal three dominant trends: critical evaluation of deep neural networks as cognitive models, emotion-reasoning interactions in analogical processing, and fundamental challenges in object representation. These works collectively question emergent properties in AI models while advancing mechanistic accounts of relational cognition.
Hummel directs the Relational Perception and Thinking Lab where he mentors students through empirical experiments and computational modeling. His active publication record indicates ongoing grant-supported research despite no specific funding details being listed in the source material.
