| Primary Faculty | Affiliations | Research question |
 | Doris Aaronson | Cognition & Perception
| How does language affect reading, memory, and problem solving? ... (more) |
 | Karen Adolph | Cognition & Perception
Developmental
Center for Neural Science
| How do infants learn new motor skills? ... (more) |
 | Marisa Carrasco | Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging | |
 | Ted Coons | Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
| How does music move us? ... (more) |
 | Clay Curtis | Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging | How does the brain control reflexes to allow voluntary behavior? ... (more) |
 | Lila Davachi | Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging | How are memories formed? ... (more) |
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Nathaniel Daw |
Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging
Center for Neuroeconomics |
How does the brain learn from trial and error to make decisions? (more) |
 | Todd Gureckis | Cognition & Perception | How do we learn through interaction with our environment? ... (more) |
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David Heeger |
Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging
Center for Neuroeconomics |
How does the brain account for conscious visual perception and visually-guided behavior? ... (more) |
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Souheil Inati |
Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception
Center for Brain Imaging
Center for Neuroeconomics |
What's the best way to image the activity of the brain? ... (more) |
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Michael Landy |
C & P Program Coordinator
Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging
Center for Neuroeconomics |
How does vision determine the size, shape, and boundaries of objects in our environment? ... (more) |
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Larry Maloney |
Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies
Cognition & Perception
Social
Center for Neural Science
Center for Neuroeconomics
Center for Experimental Social Science |
How do organisms gather information and act on it? ... (more) |
 | Alec Marantz | Cognition & Perception
Linguistics
| How does the brain accomplish symbolic computation? (more) |
 | Gary Marcus | Cognition & Perception
Developmental | What are the building blocks of the mind? ... (more) |
 | Brian McElree | Associate Chair
Cognition & Perception
Social
| How do people understand sentences within the limits of working memory? ... (more) |
 | Gregory Murphy | Cognition & Perception
| How does what you know affect the concepts you form? ... (more) |
 | Denis Pelli | Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging | How do we recognize familiar objects like words and faces? ... (more) |
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Liz Phelps |
Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging
Center for Neuroeconomics |
What can cognitive neuroscience tell us about emotion? ... (more) |
 | Liina Pylkkänen | Cognition & Perception
Linguistics
Center for Neuromagnetism
| What are the neural bases of language? ... (more) |
 | Bob Rehder | Cognition & Perception | How does perceived cause and effect determine categories? ... (more) |
 | Athena Vouloumanos | Cognition & Perception
Developmental | Is speech a special sound for humans? ... (more) |
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| Associated & Affiliated Faculty |
 | Ned Block | Philosophy
Cognition & Perception | How can consciousness be explained in terms of the brain? ... (more) |
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Adam Buchwald |
Steinhardt's Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Department
Cognition & Perception |
What cognitive processes underlie the production and perception of spoken and written language? ... (more) |
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Lisa Davidson |
Linguistics
Cognition & Perception |
How do people learn to produce and perceive sounds that are not found in their native language?... (more) |
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Adamantios Gafos |
Linguistics
Cognition & Perception
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Paul Glimcher |
Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception
Center for Brain Imaging
Center for Neuroeconomics |
My research on planning and action in the oculomotor system focusses on two structures that seem to pass these movement-related decisions to the superior colliculus: the substantia nigra and the parietal cortex. ... (more) |
 | Peter Gollwitzer | Social
Cognition & Perception
| How do goals and plans affect cognition and behavior? ... (more) |
| Michael Hawken | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception | My interest is in the role neurons play in visual perception and visuomotor behavior. ... (more) |
| Lynne Kiorpes | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception | My current research efforts include studies of the development of visual function in young macaque monkeys under conditions of normal and abnormal visual experience. ... (more) |
| John Krauskopf | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception | More recently, I have concentrated on problems of color vision using both psychophysical and electrophysiological techniques. ... (more) |
| Joe LeDoux | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception | My current research is concerned with the identification of the neural systems and cellular mechanisms used by the brain to assign emotional significance to sensory stimuli. ... (more) |
| Tony Movshon | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception
Center for Brain Imaging | I am interested in the way the brain encodes and decodes visual information, and in the mechanisms that put that information to use in the control of behavior. ... (more) |
| Nava Rubin | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception
Center for Brain Imaging | I study human visual perception and the neural basis of vision. ... (more) |
| Mal Semple | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception | My research currently embraces studies at the auditory brainstem, midbrain, and cortex. ... (more) |
| Bob Shapley | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception
Center for Brain Imaging | My colleagues and I are interested in the neural mechanisms that lead to the visual perception of objects and patterns. ... (more) |
| Eero Simoncelli | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception | My research addresses a variety of basic issues in the analysis and representation of visual imagery. ... (more) |
| Wendy Suzuki | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception
Center for Brain Imaging | What are the neural mechanisms underlying memory? ... (more) |
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Thomas Thesen |
Medical Center's Department of Neurology
Cognition & Perception
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How does the brain integrate information from the different senses and process language? ... (more) |
| Eugene Tunik | Steinhardt's Physical Therapy Department
Cognition & Perception | |
 | Yaacov Trope | Social
Cognition & Perception | How does distance affect self control? ... (more) |
 | Jim Uleman | Social
Cognition & Perception | How do we perceive others, conciously and unconsciously, and what are the consequences? ... (more) |
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| Emeritus & Retired Faculty |
| Murray Glanzer | Cognition & Perception | Currently I am studying basic aspects of recognition memory, applying signal detection theory. ... (more) |
| Lloyd Kaufman | Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science | How do humans perceive depth and size at truly vast distances? |
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