Learning

Learning research at the University of Arizona is reflected across a variety of areas including memory, perception, and language. Our approach to learning and plasticity encompasses behavioral, neural, and molecular investigations with subject populations all the way from infants to the elderly, both human and animal. A broad range of theoretical perspectives provides a contemporary approach to the study of learning. Specialties include statistical learning, spatial learning, perceptual learning, and the neurological basis of learning and memory. Cognitive Science faculty with interests in learning include:

• Barnes, Carol A. (PhD Carleton University), Regents Professor, Psychology, brain changes during the aging process, effects on information processing and memory in the elderly
• Beal, Carole R. (PhD Stanford University), Professor, Cognitive Science, technology-based and game-based learning, user modeling and human-computer interaction, educational data mining
• Bedford, Felice (PhD University of Pennsylvania), Associate Professor, Psychology, perception, human learning
• Bever, Thomas G. (PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Professor, Linguistics, language processing, behavioral neuroscience
• Cohen, Paul R. (PhD Stanford University), Professor, Computer Science, chunking, developmental robotics, language learning
• Dornhaus, Anna (PhD University of Würzburg, Germany), Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, collective decision making in insects
• Fasel, Ian (PhD UCSD), Lecturer, Computer Science, machine learning, modeling human development, robotics
• Fellous, Jean-Marc (PhD University of Southern California), Associate Professor, Psychology, computational neuroscience of motivated learning and memory, population coding
• Gerken, LouAnn (PhD Columbia University), Professor, Psychology, infant language learning, language production
• Gómez, Rebecca (PhD New Mexico State University), Associate Professor, Psychology, statistical learning, infant language learning, cognitive development
• 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
• McKee, Cecile (PhD University of Connecticut), Professor, Linguistics, syntactic development; child language
• Nadel, Lynn (PhD McGill University), Regents Professor, Psychology, behavioral neuroscience, memory systems
• Plante, Elena (PhD University of Arizona), Professor, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, developmental language disorders, neuroimaging
• Scheres, Anouk (PhD Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam), Assistant Professor, Psychology, developmental cognitive neuroscience, with a focus on child and adolescent behavioral problems
• Szilagyi, Miklos N. (PhD Electrotechnical University of Leningrad), Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, neural networks
• Zhang, Zhu (PhD University of Michigan), Assistant Professor, Management Information Systems, computational linguistics, machine learning