Колин Эллард

Колин Эллард - известный американский ученый, популяризатор науки и писатель. Специалист по когнитивной нейропсихологии и психогеографии. Доцент Университета Уотерлу, г. Уотерлу, Онтарио, Канада.

Colin Ellard is a professor of cognitive neuroscience and the director of its Urban Realities Laboratory, where he studies wayfinding, cognition, and emotion in the built environment. He has published peer-reviewed articles in visual perception, environmental psychology, cognitive mapping, virtual reality and neuroscience in North America and Europe and has presented his work to international audiences at conferences in the areas of cognitive science, neuroscience, environmental graphic design, architecture, and planning. He consults and collaborates regularly with architects, designers, planners, and artists both in Canada and abroad. Ellard provides a popular account of his work in his 2009 book You Are Here, which garnered strong praise from the New York Times, PBS, Scientific American, New Scientist and many other print and broadcast media outlets.

Colin Ellard, who works at the intersection of neuroscience and architectural and environmental design, is the author of Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life and You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon. He has published scientific work in international journals in North America, Europe, and Asia for the past twenty-five years and has also contributed to the public discussion of environmental psychology through his work with museums and the media. A cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Waterloo and director of its Urban Realities Laboratory, Ellard lives in Kitchener, Ontario.