About Stevan Harnad is currently Canada Research Chair in cognitive science at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and professor of cognitive science at the University of Southampton. He was born in Budapest, Hungary and did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University's Department of Psychology. He was elected external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2001.

His research is on categorization, communication and consciousness and he has written extensively on categorical perception, symbol grounding, origin of language, lateralization, Turing test, distributed cognition, scientometrics and consciousness. Harnad is a former student of Donald O. Hebb and Julian Jaynes.

In 1978, Harnad was the founder of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, of which he remained editor-in-chief until 2002. In addition, he founded Psycoloquy (an early electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association), CogPrints(an electronic archive in the cognitive sciences hosted by the University of Southampton), and the American Scientist Open Access Forum (since 1998). Harnad is an active promoter of open access, EPrints, EnablingOpenScholarship (EOS), Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS) and SPARC Campus Open Access Policies.

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