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Primary Faculty |
Affiliations |
Research question |
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Karen Adolph |
Cognition & Perception
Developmental
Center for Neural Science
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How do infants learn new motor skills? ... (more) |
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Marisa Carrasco |
Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging |
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Ted Coons |
Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
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How does music move us? ... (more) |
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Clay Curtis |
Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging |
How does the brain control reflexes to allow voluntary behavior? ... (more) |
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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) |
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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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Brice Kuhl |
Cognition & Perception |
How do we remember the past, why do we forget it, and what are the underlying neural mechanisms |
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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 |
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) |
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Alec Marantz |
Cognition & Perception
Linguistics
| How does the brain accomplish symbolic computation? (more) |
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Gary Marcus |
Cognition & Perception
Developmental |
What are the building blocks of the mind? ... (more) |
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Brian McElree |
Cognition & Perception
Social
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How do people understand sentences within the limits of working memory? ... (more) |
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Gregory Murphy |
Chair
Cognition & Perception
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How does what you know affect the concepts you form? ... (more) |
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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) |
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David Poeppel |
Cognition & Perception |
What kind of cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms form the basis for speech perception and auditory cognition? .... (more) |
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Liina Pylkkänen |
Cognition & Perception
Linguistics
Center for Neuromagnetism
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What are the neural bases of language? ... (more) |
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Bob Rehder |
Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies
Cognition & Perception |
How does perceived cause and effect determine categories? ... (more) |
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Marjorie Rhodes |
Cognition & Perception
Developmental |
How do concepts develop? ... (more) |
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Athena Vouloumanos |
Cognition & Perception
Developmental |
Is speech a special sound for humans? ... (more) |
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Associated & Affiliated Faculty |
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Emily Balcetis |
Social
Cognition & Perception |
How do motivations influence perception? ... (more) |
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Ned Block |
Philosophy
Cognition & Perception |
How can consciousness be explained in terms of the brain? ... (more) |
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Adam Buchwald |
Steinhardt's Dept. of Communicative Sciences and Disorders
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) |
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Peter Gollwitzer |
Associate Chair
Social
Cognition & Perception
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How do goals and plans affect cognition and behavior? ... (more) |
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Michael Hawken |
Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception |
My interest is in the role neurons play in visual perception and visuomotor behavior. ... (more) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Susannah Levi |
Steinhardt's Dept. of Communicative Sciences and Disorders
Cognition & Perception |
How do people learn to deal with variability in the speech signal? ... (more) |
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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) |
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Nava Rubin |
Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception
Center for Brain Imaging |
I study human visual perception and the neural basis of vision. ... (more) |
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Mal Semple |
Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception |
My research currently embraces studies at the auditory brainstem, midbrain, and cortex. ... (more) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Yaacov Trope |
Social
Cognition & Perception |
How does distance affect self control? ... (more) |
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Jim Uleman |
Social
Cognition & Perception |
How do we perceive others, conciously and unconsciously, and what are the consequences? ... (more) |
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Jay Van Bavel |
Social
Cognition & Perception |
How do our identities, values,and motivations change our perceptions and evaluations of others? ... (more) |
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Emeritus & Retired Faculty |
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Doris Aaronson |
Cognition & Perception
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How does language affect reading, memory, and problem solving? ... (more) |
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Murray Glanzer |
Cognition & Perception |
Currently I am studying basic aspects of recognition memory, applying signal detection theory. ... (more) |
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Lloyd Kaufman |
Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science |
How do humans perceive depth and size at truly vast distances? |
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