Michaela Porubanova

Dr. Michaela Porubanova is an associate professor of cognitive psychology at The State University of New York, Farmingdale, where she also directs the Visual Cognition Laboratory. She is also a research affiliate at the New School for Social Research and the Graduate Center at CUNY. She is interested in visual consciousness, time perception, and anthropomorphism. She is a functionalist believing in the evolutionary shaping of our cognitive architecture. Her research has been published in various research journals such as PLoS One, Timing and Time Perception, Journal of Cognition & Culture, Frontiers in Psychology, among others. In addition, she published several book chapters for Routledge and Bloomsbury. Currently, she is co-writing a book for Oxford University Press on the comprehensive approach to anthropomorphism with anthropologist Dr. Stewart Guthrie. Her scholarly approach is interdisciplinary- she has been working with neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, and anthropologists, as she believes that advances in science can be done through a combination of interdisciplinary discourse and methodological rigor.