IDP Faculty
Anthropology
Biology
Gert Cauwenberghs: Computational neuroscience, neuromorphic engineering, brain-machine
interfaces.
Biology & Neurosciences
Terrence J Sejnowski: Computational neurobiology; the representation, transformation, and storage of information in the nervous system..
Cognitive Science
Richard Belew: Adaptive knowledge representation; co-evolution of HIV drug resistance.
Benjamin Bergen: Mental simulation in language understanding; embodiment of linguistic constructions; processing of literal, abstract, and metaphorical language; language acquisition.
Andrea Chiba: Spatial attention, associative learning, acetylcholine, amygdala.
Seana Coulson: Cognitive electrophysiology, cognitive semantics, experimental pragmatics, gesture comprehension, synesthesia.
Sarah Creel: Language development, word recognition, eye tracking, cognitive control, music perception.
Gedeon Deák: Cognitive development in children, embodied learning, infant-parent interaction, cognitive flexibility.
Jeff Elman: Language processing, psycholinguistics, event representation, discourse coherence.
Gilles Fauconnier: Language and cognition, semantic theory, pragmatics and meaning construction.
Jim Hollan: Cognitive ethnography, distributed and embodied cognition, human-computer interaction, multimodal interaction.
Edwin Hutchins: Cognitive ethnography, distributed and embodied cognition, human-computer interaction, multimodal interaction.
Terry L Jernigan: brain maturation and aging, neural effects of HIV-infection, substance abuse, MRI.
David Kirsh: Design, cognitive ethnography, distributed and embodied cognition, thinking with things, e-learning.
Marta Kutas: Normal and abnormal language processing, memory, information processing, aging.
Douglas A Nitz: Neural basis of spatial cognition and episodic memory, hippocampus, parietal cortex, premotor cortex.
Rafael Núñez: Embodied mind, abstraction, cognitive linguistics, gesture production, mathematical thinking.
Jaime Pineda: Neurobiology of social cognition, attention, face perception, addiction, monoamines, brain-computer interfaces.
Joan Stiles: Spatial knowledge acquisition, spatial analytic processing, pre-/peri-natal stroke, fMRI.
Angela J. Yu: Decision making, attention, active vision, learning, neuromodulation, Bayesian modeling, control theory.
Cognitive Science & Neurosciences
Ayse P. Saygin: Cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychology, neuroimaging, visual perception, attention, multisensory integration, biological motion, social neuroscience, language comprehension, human-machine interaction, social robotics.
Cognitive Science & Psychology
Communication
Michael Cole: Mediational theories of mind; the role of culture in human development.
Carol Padden: Development of writing systems in young children, interaction of language and cultural systems, including writing, drawing and reading, sign language.
Computer Science & Engineering
Garrison W Cottrell: Director, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Cognitive Science. Neural networks as a computational model applied to problems in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, engineering and biology.
Charles P Elkan: Automated reasoning, machine learning, cognitive architectures, foundations of artificial intelligence.
Electrical & Computer Engineer
Nuno Vasconcelos: Computer Vision; Object Detection and Recognition; Scene Classification; Image and Video Retrieval; Computational Models for Biological Vision; Saliency; Machine Learning; Generative and Large-margin methods.
Family and Preventive Medicine
Linguistics
Amalia Arvaniti: speech production and perception, prosody (especially speech rhythm and intonation), language variation; Greek, English, Romani.
Eric Bakovic: Phonological theory, optimality theory, Spanish.
Andrew Kehler: Computational linguistics, discourse interpretation.
Robert E Kluender: Neural substrates of language, sentence processing, language and cognition, syntactic theory.
Nayoung Kwon: First and second language acquistion, language processing, agrammatism, Korean.
John C Moore: Syntactic morphology, spanish, lexical semantics.
David M Perlmutter: Linguistic universals and typology; syntactic, phonological, and morphological theory; sign language.
Music
Gerald J Balzano: Music perception, computers and learning, mathematics education, music education, theories of perception and learning, philosophy of mathematics.
Neurosciences
Eric Courchesne: Attentional processing at the cellular, neurosystems and behavioral levels.
Steven A Hillyard: Neural mechanisms of attention, perception, and human information processing.
David P Salmon: Cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychology of learning and memory, dementia, amnesia.
Doris Trauner: Development of specific cognitive skills in children after early brain damage.
Neurosciences & Psychiatry
Neurosciences & Psychiatry & Psychology
Philosophy
William Bechtel: Philosophy of the life sciences (especially biochemistry and cell biology, neuroscience and the cognitive sciences) and philosophy of mind.
Paul M Churchland: Philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, epistemology, perception.
Patricia S Churchland: Philosophy of neuroscience, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language.
Jonathan Cohen: Philosophy of mind, cognitive science, philosophy of language, metaphysics.
Rick Grush: Theoretical cognitive neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy of language.
Psychiatry
Greg Brown: Computational modeling and brain imaging.
Walter Kaye: Neural processes contributing to behavior in anorexia and bulimia nervosa
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Psychology
Ursula Bellugi: Director, Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, Salk Institute. Domains of higher cortical function (language, spatial cognition) and their representation in the brain.
Karen Dobkins: Visual perception and underlying neural mechanisms.
Christine Harris: Human Emotion, including its interaction with cognitive processes (memory, attention and decision making).
David E Huber: Perception, memory, neural networks, Bayesian models, cognitive electrophysiology.
Radiology
Rady School of Management
Sociology
Hugh B Mehan: Sociolinguistics, cognitive sociology, sociology of knowledge.
Akos Rona-tas: Economic sociology, political sociology, social change, social stratification, survey and quantitative methodology.
Visual Arts
IDP Students
Anthropology
John McGraw: Distributed cognition and decision-making; cognitive foundations of cultural processes; cognitive science of religion; dissociation and altered states of consciousness; schema theory and cultural models; reasoning, heuristics, and intuition.
Communication
Ayhan Aytes: Cognitive Labor, Crowdsourcing, and Cultural History of Artificial Intelligence
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Robert Lecusay: cultural-historical activity theory, distributed cognition, cognitive
ethnography of informal science learning environments.
Computer Science & Engineering
Matthew Tong: Computational models of cognition and vision, especially visual attention and eye-movements
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Linguistics
Naja Ferjan: Brain representations of language; age of acquisition effects on language processing; language acquisition.
Music
Grace Leslie
Psychology
Laura Case: Interested in plasticity of body representation in the brain, mirror neurons, sensory integration, visual feedback therapies, and clinical conditions related to brain-based body image including BIID, eating disorders, transsexuality, and bigender..
Galit Hofree: Neuroscience and physiology of affect; The influence of affective processes on cognition and social behavior, specifically decision-making; Interactions of affect and valuation processes..
Liam Kavanagh: Behavioral mimicry as embodied cognition, non-verbal communication or both; Temporal aspects of memory, re-experience and valuation.
Daniel Kleinman
Mary D. Mullane: Neural mechanisms of affective modulation of learning,memory and decision-making. Temporal integration of affective information in different sensory modalities. Social influence on individual affect. .
Cory Rieth: Applying computational models and neuroscience to study the dynamics of visual perception, face perception, and memory.