Francisco Arcediano
Assistant Professor
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Francisco Arcediano received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Deusto University (Spain), under the supervision of Dr. Helena Matute. Concurrently, he was a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence program) in which he completed all the Ph.D. requirements but the dissertation. After completion of his Ph.D. in Psychology, he obtained a postdoctoral fellowship from the Basque Government and joined Dr. Ralph R. Miller's laboratory at the State University of New York at Binghamton. At SUNY-Binghamton he held the positions of research fellow, adjunct assistant professor, and research scientist. He moved to Auburn in 2002, with the intention of completing his graduate degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering. At Auburn University, he held the positions of visiting assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and graduate research assistant and instructor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering. He is an assistant professor of psychology at Auburn University since 2008.
Dr. Arcediano's research is focused in understanding the role of spatiotemporal contiguity, and temporal order in learning, and the mechanisms underlying temporal and spatial integration of acquired behaviors. In the long term, he is interested in the implementation of computational tools that would allow for the building and testing of the primitives of cognition, and the study of the conditions necessary for the development of higher-order cognition from the use of these primitives and their interactions. His ultimate goal is the implementation of a unified architecture of basic cognition, in which to study how (human and nonhuman) organisms interact with their environment, make sense of it, and adapt to it. An additional advantage of this approach is its potential implications for the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics.