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Adelman, Melinda
Undergraduate Programs Administrator
- Office Location
- 363 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0541

Ahuja, Himanshu
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Haefner
- Gomez-Ramirez

Allen, James F.
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Natural language understanding; Discourse; Knowledge representation; Common-sense reasoning; Planning

Alvernaz, Sam
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Haefner
- Office Location
- 302 cubicle Meliora Hall

Anzai, Akiyuki
Distinguished Researcher
- Office Location
- 245 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5477
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Bennetto, Loisa
Associate Professor of Psychology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Neuroscience
- Office Location
- 492 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8712
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Neurocognitive bases of autism; The role of multisensory processing in social-communication difficulties

Biro, Dora
Beverly Petterson Bishop and Charles W. Bishop Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Chair, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Animal cognition; Collective behavior; Collective decision-making; Navigation and spatial learning; Tool use; Social learning; Animal culture; Strategic intelligence

Briggs, Farran
Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 6-8545 URMC
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3736
- Web Address
- Website
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Carlson, Greg
he/him/his
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
Interests: Semantic Theory; Psycholinguistics; Discourse

Cassano, Riesa
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Piazza
- Web Address
- Website

Cavanah, Paul
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Fiebelkorn

Chapman, Robert
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Office Location
- 243 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8676
- Web Address
- Website

Cherian, Rithwik John
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Biro

Corser, Kathy
Graduate Programs Administrator
- Office Location
- 358 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1844

Cox, Michele
Postdoctoral Fellow
- Office Location
- 253 Meliora Hall
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Dambra, Christine
Accounting Assistant
- Office Location
- 362 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7115

Davis, Kevin
Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Instructional Track
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Office Location
- 303E Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7187

DeAngelis, Greg
George Eastman Professor
Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Professor of Neuroscience
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor in the Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 321 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8677
Interests: 3D vision and navigation; Multisensory integration; Neural coding; Decision-making

Dekdebrun, Chad
Research Specialist

Dente, Nicholas
Research Technician

Dong, Yelin
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- DeAngelis

Duhain, Michael
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Gomez-Ramirez
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Fiebelkorn, Ian
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Office Location
- 5-6419 Medical Center
- Telephone
- Office (585) 275-8668
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Cognition; Selective attention; Working memory; Visual processing

Freemesser, Chris
Systems Administrator
- Office Location
- 274 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0786
- Web Address
- Website
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Galvin, Tamar
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Iordan

Gardner, Margaret
Laboratory Technician
- Office Location
- 166 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8142

Gildea, Daniel
Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3019 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7230
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Machine translation; Semantic parsing; Algorithms for natural language processing

Gillis, Jennifer
Supervisor, Academic Finance and Operations
- Office Location
- 360 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2852

Gomez-Ramirez, Manuel
Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: haptics; somatosensation; selective attention; cross-modal perception; neural coding and neural correlations

Goswami, Sabyasachi
Graduate Student

Graf, Dina
Research Specialist
- Office Location
- 164 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-2941

Guzhang, Yue
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Poletti
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Haber, Suzanne
Professor, Pharmacology & Physiology, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Office Location
- 5-6518 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 275-6959
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Basal Ganglia; degenerative disease

Haefner, Ralf
Associate Professor
- Office Location
- 313 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7453
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: perceptual decision-making; probabilistic inference; selective attention; neural population encoding and decoding; depth perception/processing of binocular disparity

Halsey, Cydney
Laboratory Technician

Huxlin, Krystel
James V. Aquavella Professor of Ophthalmology
Professor, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Institute of Optics, Center for Visual Science
Associate Director/Co-Director of Training, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 2-6728 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5495
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Improving vision after damage
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Ignaco, Alyssa
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Gomez-Ramirez

Iordan, Coraline Rinn
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience
- Office Location
- 308 Meliora Hall
- cora@rochester.edu
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: visual and semantic cognition; learning; attention; neuroplasticity; real-time fMRI; neurofeedback; machine learning; neural networks; data science

Ison, James R.
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Otolaryngology, and Neurobiology & Anatomy
- jrison@gmail.com
Interests: audition; sensory reflexes; sensory function; sensori-motor control
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Jacobs, Robert A.
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, and the Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 306 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0753
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: cognitive and perceptual learning; neural computation

Jaeger, T. Florian
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science
- Office Location
- 320 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3611
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Models of human speech perception and production; Adaptive changes in language processing; Learning over non-stationary inputs; Theories of communication; Bayesian inference; Advanced multivariate and distributional data analysis (GLMMs, GAMMs, NLMMs, mixture models, etc.)

Jenks, Samantha
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Poletti

Jolly, Paul
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Rucci
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Kanan, Christopher
Associate Professor, Computer Science, Center for Visual Science, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Artificial intelligence; Continual Learning; Vision; Brain-inspired algorithms

Kapisthalam, Sanjana
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Poletti
- Web Address
- Website

Keane, Brian
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Telephone
- Office (585) 276-3578
- Web Address
- Website

Kellogg, Carol K.
Professor Emeritus, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Interests: neuropharmacology; development; hormones; behavior; GABA

Kissai, Adam
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Sasaki

Kornack, David
Associate Professor, Neuroscience
- Office Location
- 5-7215 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (MC) (585) 273-3140
- Telephone
- (Mel) (585) 273-4719
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Neurogenesis in the Developing and Adult Mammalian Brain

Krishnamachari Srinivasan, Prahalad
Postdoctoral Fellow
- Office Location
- 246 Meliora Hall

Kurumada, Chigusa
Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Office Location
- 304 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0760
- Web Address
- Website
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Lennie, Peter
Jay Last Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 316 Meliora Hall
- lennie@rochester.edu
Interests: functional organization of vision; color vision

Lerner, Vitaly
Postdoctoral Fellow

Li, Yuanhao (Howard)
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Rucci
- Web Address
- Website

Li, Chen
Graduate Student
B.S. 2023
- Advisor(s)
- Fiebelkorn
- Gomez-Ramirez
Interests: visual attention; tactile perception; distraction suppression; neuromodulation

Li, Jieyu
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Poletti
- Office Location
- Meliora Hall

Li, Zehua
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Norman-Haignere
- Office Location
- Meliora Hall

Liao, Guoyang
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Norman-Haignere

Lin, Feng Vankee
Associate Professor, Nursing, Psychiatry, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Neuroscience
- Office Location
- 2w128 Helen Wood Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6002
- Web Address
- Website

Lin, Ruitao
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Rucci

Liu, Shizhao
Graduate Student

Luo, Yumeng
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Gomez-Ramirez

Lyons, Megan
Laboratory Technician
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Makous, Walter
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science
- wmakous@gmail.com

Marvin, Elizabeth West
Minehan Family Professor, Eastman School of Music, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Office Location
- 26 Gibbs Street ESM
- Telephone
- (ESM) (585) 274-1076
- Telephone
- (Mel) (585) 275-1812
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: music cognition

Mathiaparanam, Olympia
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Rosengren

McDonald, Tanique
Lab Technician

Melnick, Michael
Project Specialist

Merigan, William
Professor, Ophthalmology, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- G-4101 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4872
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: In Vivo Adaptive Optics Imaging of the Retina

Miller, Renee
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Instructional Track
Director, Undergraduate Neuroscience Program
Co-Director, Rochester Early Medical Scholars
- Office Location
- 303F Meliora Hall
Interests: Sex differences in brains and behaviors
Mitchell, Jude
Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Office Location
- 307 Meliora Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: How spatial attention alters statistics of neuronal spiking; Extracellular classification of neuronal types in awake animals; Systems identification models of sensory processing and attention; Network models of spiking neurons and correlations in firing; Human psychophysics in object-based attention, recognition, and perceptual learning

Mizobuchi, Soma
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Rucci

Mohan, Oviya
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Biro
- Web Address
- Website

Morford, Joe
Postdoctoral Fellow

Murphy, Emily
Research Specialist
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Nagarajan, Krishnaveni
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Poletti

Neverodska, Alina
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Rucci

Neverodska, Alina
Laboratory Technician

Nordeen, Kathy W.
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Neuroscience
Interests: neural plasticity; learning; memory

Nordeen, Ernie
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Neurobiology and Anatomy
Interests: neurobiology of vocal learning and plasticity

Norman-Haignere, Samuel
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Computational Biology, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4.133 Saunders Research Building
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Auditory neuroscience and perception; Neural encoding of speech and music; Statistical modeling of neural responses; Temporal integration in sensory systems; Human intracranial recordings; Functional MRI; Cross-species comparisons
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Pasternak, Tatiana
Professor Emeritus, Neuroscience, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science

Peterman, Alison
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Co-Chair, Department of Philosophy
- Office Location
- 520 Lattimore
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: History and philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception

Peterson, Sara
Web Coordinator
- Office Location
- 362A Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2459

Piazza, Elise
Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: communication; auditory perception; music cognition; naturalistic paradigms; two-person neuroscience; learning and development across the lifespan

Pletenev, Anton
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Haefner

Poletti, Martina
Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 312 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4801
- Telephone
- (585) 273-3081
- Web Address
- Website

Powers, Daniel
Laboratory Technician
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Qolami, Milad
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Mitchell
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Ramsammy, Brent
Human Subjects Research Coordinator

Reynoso, Jose
Graduate Student

Romanski, Lizabeth
Associate Professor, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Center for Visual Science
Associate Chair, Neurobiology & Anatomy
- Telephone
- (585) 273-1469
- Web Address
- Website

Rosengren, Karl
Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Psychology
- Office Location
- 406 Meliora Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: cognitive and motor development; interaction of cognition and action in children’s drawing; conceptual development; perception and action; learning

Rucci, Michele
Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 309 Meliora Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Vision and Action

Runner, Jeffrey T.
he/him/his
Professor of Linguistics & Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Interests: Experimental Syntax; Syntactic/Linguistic Theory; Binding Theory; Syntax Processing; Phrase Structure; Syntax/Semantics Interface
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Sahoo, Bikash Chandra
Graduate Student
B.Tech.
- Advisor(s)
- Snyder
M.Tech.
- Office Location
- 149 Meliora Hall

Sang Sefidi, Saeid
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Gomez-Ramirez

Sasaki, Takao
Associate Professor
- Office Location
- 316 Meliora Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Collective animal behavior; Collective learning; Animal cognition; Animal culture

Schieber, Marc
Professor, Neurology, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 6-8537 Medical Center
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Neural control of hand and finger movements

Schlegel, Cynthia
Human Subjects Research Coordinator

Schultz, Michele
Administrative Assistant, BCS and CVS / Assistant to BCS Chairperson
- Office Location
- 361 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8659

Shaw, Luke
Postdoctoral Associate
- Advisor(s)
- Mitchell

Smith, Calli
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Piazza

Snyder, Adam
Assistant Professor
- Office Location
- 318 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- Office (585) 275-8453
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Micro- and macro-scale mechanisms of visual attention

Stearns, Zoe
she/her/hers
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Poletti
- Web Address
- Website

Sun, Claire
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Iordan
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Tadin, Duje
Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Ophthalmology, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science
Interim Dean, School of Arts & Sciences
Co-Director of Training, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 310 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8682
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: neural mechanisms of visual perception

Tanenhaus, Michael K.
Beverly Petterson Bishop and Charles W. Bishop Professor Emeritus, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics
Interests: psycholinguistics; language and reading comprehension

Temperley, David
Professor of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music
- Office Location
- 26 Gibbs Street
- Telephone
- (585) 274-1557
- Web Address
- Website

Thompson, Susan Peirce
Adjunct Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Founder and CEO, Bright Line Eating Solutions, LLC
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: The neuroscience of food addiction; The key factors that drive sustainable weight loss; Willpower
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Wang, Jie
Postdoctoral Fellow
- Office Location
- 247 Meliora Hall

White, Aaron
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
- Office Location
- 511A Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8053
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: computational psycholinguistics; syntactic and semantic theory; first language acquisition

Williams, David
Professor, Optics, Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science
Allyn Chair, Medical Optics
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8672
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Limits of human vision

Wu, Ruei-Jr
Scientist
- Office Location
- 258 Meliora Hall
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Yang, Chung-Lin Martin
Assistant Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Instructional Track
- Office Location
- 322 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1812
Interests: Psycho- and neurolinguistics; speech perception/production; word recognition (both visual and spoken); word learning; evolution of human cognition; second language acquisition

Yang, Bin
Graduate Student
B.E. 2013
- Advisor(s)
- Rucci
- Office Location
- 241 Meliora Hall

Yang, Luoyi (Lois)
Laboratory Technician

Ye, Alex (Xinyi)
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Iordan
- Web Address
- Website

Yoo, Seung Heon
Postdoctoral Associate
- Office Location
- 420 Meliora Hall

Yuan, Xinyi
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Haefner
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Zeng, Ruby
Graduate Student
- Advisor(s)
- Piazza

Zhu, Yuhao
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Center for Visual Science
Bridging Fellow in Brain & Cognitive Sciences
- Office Location
- 3501 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- office (585) 275-1192
- yzhu@rochester.edu
- Web Address
- Website