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Regular Faculty

Allen, John (PhD Minnesota), Professor, Psychology, clinical psychology, psychophysiology, neuropsychology
Archangeli, Diana (PhD MIT), Professor, Linguistics, phonology
Barnard, Kobus (PhD Simon Fraser University), Assistant Professor, Computer Science, object recognition and image understanding, computer vision
Barnes, Carol A. (PhD Carleton University), Professor, Psychology, brain changes during the aging process, effects on information processing and memory in the elderly
Barss, Andrew (PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Associate Professor, Linguistics, syntax, semantics, language processing and acquisition
Bedford, Felice (PhD University of Pennsylvania), Associate Professor, Psychology, perception, human learning
Beeson, Pelagie M. (PhD University of Arizona), Associate Professor, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, communication disorders in adults
Bever, Thomas G. (PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Professor, Linguistics, language processing, behavioral neuroscience
Carnie, Andrew (PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Associate Professor, Linguistics, syntactic theory
Connolly, Terry (PhD Northwestern University), Professor, Management and Policy, decision behavior
DeDe, Gayle (PhD Boston University), Assistant Professor, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, entence comprehension in aging and aphasia
Dornhaus, Anna (PhD University of Würzburg, Germany), Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, collective decision making in insects
Fellous, Jean-Marc (PhD University of Southern California), Associate Professor, Psychology, computational neuroscience of motivated learning and memory, population coding
Fong, Sandiway (PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Associate Professor, Linguistics, computational linguistics
Forster, Kenneth I. (PhD Univeristy of Illinois), Professor, Psychology, language comprehension, word recognition
Frank, Michael (PhD Colorado Boulder), Assistant Professor, Psychology, computational modeling, reinforcement learning, decision making, and working memory
Gerken, LouAnn (PhD Columbia University), Professor, Psychology, infant language learning, language production
Glisky, Elizabeth (PhD University of Toronto), Professor, Psychology, neuropsychology, cognitive rehabilitation
Gómez, Rebecca (PhD New Mexico State University), Associate Professor, Psychology, statistical learning, infant language learning, cognitive development
Hammond, Michael (PhD University of California Los Angeles), Professor, Linguistics, morphology, phonology; experimental phonology, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics
Harley, Heidi (PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Associate Professor, Linguistics, syntax, morphology, lexical semantics
Horgan, Terry (PhD University of Michigan), Professor, Philosophy, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, phil. of language, epistemology, decision theory
Ismael, Jenann (PhD Princeton), Associate Professor, Philosophy, dynamical systems, situated cognition, self-organization, reduction and emergence
Karimi, Simin (PhD University of Washington), Associate Professor, Linguistics, theoretical syntax
Kaszniak, Alfred W. (PhD University of Illinois), Professor, Psychology, neuropsychology, memory and aging
Kriegel, Uriah (PhD Brown University), Assistant Professor, Philosophy, consciousness and self-consciousness
Kugler, Tamar (PhD Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Assistant Professor, Management and Policy, strategic decision making, inter-group conflict, group decision making
Lin, Ying (PhD University of California Los Angeles), Assistant Professor, Linguistics, learning, computation, phonetics and phonology
Lotto, Andrew (PhD University of Wisconsin, Madison), Assistant Professor, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, auditory perception as it relates to speech perception
Maloney, J. Chris (PhD University of Indiana), Professor, Philosophy, philosophy of mind
McKee, Cecile (PhD University of Connecticut), Professor, Linguistics, syntactic development; child language
McNaughton, Bruce L. (PhD Dalhousie University), Professor, Psychology, neural modeling, spatial orientation and navigation
Mendoza-Denton, Norma (PhD Stanford University), Associate Professor, Anthropology, sociolinguistics
Nadel, Lynn (PhD McGill University), Regents Professor, Psychology, behavioral neuroscience, memory systems
Nichols, Shaun (PhD Rutgers), Professor, Philosophy, experimental philosophy, cultural evolution, free will, and cognitive theories of the imagination
Nicol, Janet L. (PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Associate Professor, Psychology, language processing, aphasia
Ohala, Diane (PhD University of Arizona), Assistant Professor, Linguistics, child language acquisition, phonological perception and production; adult phonological processing
Ordoñez, Lisa (PhD Berkeley), Professor, Management and Policy, Judgment and decision making, management and consumer behavior, judgments of fairness
Peterson, Mary A. (PhD Columbia University), Professor, Psychology, visual perception
Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo (PhD University of Rome), Professor, Cognitive Science, language and mind, judgment and decision making
Plante, Elena (PhD University of Arizona), Professor, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, developmental language disorders, neuroimaging
Pollock, John L. (PhD University of California Berkeley), Regents Professor, Philosophy, reasoning, artificial intelligence
Rapcsak, Steven Z. (PhD MD - Medical School of Szeged, Hungary), Associate Professor, Neurology, aphasia, visual agnosia
Rapoport, Amnon (PhD University of North Carolina), Professor, Management and Policy, decision theory
Sanfey, Alan (PhD University of Colorado), Assistant Professor, Psychology, emotion and cognition in decision-making, neural dynamics of fairness and cooperation, memory influences on judgment
Scheres, Anouk (PhD Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam), Assistant Professor, Psychology, developmental cognitive neuroscience, with a focus on child and adolescent behavioral problems
Story, Brad (PhD University of Iowa), Associate Professor, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, speech perception
Supalla, Samuel J. (PhD University of Illinois), Associate Professor, Special Ed and Rehab,, sign language, syntactic and lexical development
Szilagyi, Miklos N. (PhD Electrotechnical University of Leningrad), Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, neural networks
Ussishkin, Adam (PhD University of California Santa Cruz), Assistant Professor, Linguistics, phonology, morphology
Van Petten, Cyma K. (PhD University of California San Diego), Professor, Psychology, cognitive neuropsychology
Warner, Natasha (PhD University of California Berkeley), Associate Professor, Linguistics, phonetics, experimental phonology
Waugh, Linda (PhD University of Indiana), Professor, French and Italian, bilingualism, language acquisition
Wedel, Andrew (PhD University of California Santa Cruz), Assistant Professor, Linguistics, phonology, computational linguistics
Zhang, Zhu (PhD University of Michigan), Assistant Professor, Management Information Systems, computational linguistics, machine learning

Affiliate Faculty

Demers, Richard (PhD University of Washington), Professor Emeritus, Linguistics, phonetics/phonology, Native American languages, historical linguistics, animal communication
Dooley, Sheila (PhD Lund), Lecturer, Linguistics, syntax, typology, computational linguistics
Garrett, Merrill F. (PhD University of Illinois), Professor Emeritus, Psychology, language processing, aphasia
Harnish, Robert M. (PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, pragmatics, philosophy of language
Holland, Audrey L. (PhD University of Pittsburg), Professor Emerita, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, aphasia
Langendoen, D. Terence (PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Professor Emeritus, Linguistics, syntax, computational linguistics
Yaeger-Dror, Malcah (PhD University of Pennsylvania), Adjunct Lecturer, Cognitive Science, cognitive aspects of phonological change, sociolinguistics