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Adelman, Melinda
- Undergraduate Program Coordinator
- madelma2@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-0541
- 363 Meliora Hall
Allen, James F.
- Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Interests: Natural language understanding; Discourse; Knowledge representation; Common-sense reasoning; Planning
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Bennetto, Loisa
- Associate Professor of Psychology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Neuroscience
- loisa.bennetto@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8712
- 492 Meliora Hall
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
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
- farran_briggs@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 276-3736
- 6-8545 URMC
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Carlson, Greg
he/him/his
- Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
Interests: Semantic Theory; Psycholinguistics; Discourse
Chapman, Robert
- Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- rchapman@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8676
- 243 Meliora Hall
Chen, Zhen
- Graduate Student
- Ph.D.
- Advisor: Haefner/Padmanabhan
- zchen87@ur.rochester.edu
- 302 cubicle Meliora Hall
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Davis, Kevin
- Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Instructional Track
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Kevin_Davis@URMC.Rochester.edu | (585) 275-7187
- 303E Meliora Hall
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
- gdeangelis@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8677
- 321 Meliora Hall
Interests: 3D vision and navigation; Multisensory integration; Neural coding; Decision-making
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Fiebelkorn, Ian
- Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Ian_Fiebelkorn@URMC.Rochester.edu | Office (585) 275-8668
- 5-6419 Medical Center
Interests: Cognition; Selective attention; Working memory; Visual processing
Freemesser, Chris
- Systems Administrator, Center for Visual Science, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
- cfreemes@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-0786
- 274 Meliora Hall
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Gardner, Margaret
- Laboratory Technician, Chapman Lab
- margaret.gardner@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8142
- 166 Meliora Hall
Gildea, Daniel
- Professor of Computer Science
- gildea@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-7852
- 3019 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Machine translation; Semantic parsing; Algorithms for natural language processing
Gomez-Ramirez, Manuel
- Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Interests: haptics; somatosensation; selective attention; cross-modal perception; neural coding and neural correlations
Graf, Dina
- Lab Tech, DeAngelis/Mitchell labs
- dknoedl@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 273-2941
- 164 Meliora Hall
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Haber, Suzanne
- Professor, Pharmacology & Physiology, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- suzanne_haber@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-6959
- 5-6518 Medical Center
Interests: Basal Ganglia; degenerative disease
Haefner, Ralf
- Associate Professor
- rhaefne2@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 276-7453
- 313 Meliora Hall
Interests: perceptual decision-making; probabilistic inference; selective attention; neural population encoding and decoding; depth perception/processing of binocular disparity
Huxlin, Krystel
- Professor, Ophthalmology, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science
- James V. Aquavella Professor, Ophthalmology
Associate Chair for Research, David and Ilene Flaum Eye Institute
URMC Ombudsperson
Associate Director, Center for Visual Science
- khuxlin@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5495
- 2-6728 Medical Center
Interests: Improving vision after damage
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Iordan, Marius Cătălin
he/she/they
- Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience
- mci@rochester.edu
- 308 Meliora Hall
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
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
- Rjacobs@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-0753
- 306 Meliora Hall
Interests: cognitive and perceptual learning; neural computation
Jaeger, T. Florian
- Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science
- Fjaeger@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 276-3611
- 320 Meliora Hall
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Kanan, Christopher
- Associate Professor, Computer Science, Center for Visual Science, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Interests: Artificial intelligence; Continual Learning; Vision; Brain-inspired algorithms
Keane, Brian
- Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Brian_Keane@urmc.rochester.edu | Office (585) 276-3578
Kellogg, Carol K.
- Professor Emeritus, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Interests: neuropharmacology; development; hormones; behavior; GABA
Kornack, David
- Associate Professor, Neuroscience
- david_kornack@urmc.rochester.edu | (MC) (585) 273-3140, (Mel) (585) 273-4719
- 5-7215 Medical Center
Interests: Neurogenesis in the Developing and Adult Mammalian Brain
Kurumada, Chigusa
- Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- ckuruma2@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-0760
- 304 Meliora Hall
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Lennie, Peter
- Jay Last Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science
- lennie@rochester.edu
- 316 Meliora Hall
Interests: functional organization of vision; color vision
Li, Chen
- Graduate Student
- B.S.
- Advisor: Fiebelkorn; Gomez-Ramirez
Interests: visual attention; tactile perception; distraction suppression; neuromodulation
Lin, Feng Vankee
- Associate Professor, Nursing, Psychiatry, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Neuroscience
- vankee_lin@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 276-6002
- 2w128 Helen Wood Hall
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Makous, Walter
- Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science
Marvin, Elizabeth West
- Minehan Family Professor, Eastman School of Music, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- bmarvin@esm.rochester.edu | (ESM) (585) 274-1076, (Mel) (585) 275-1812
- 26 Gibbs Street ESM
Interests: music cognition
Merigan, William
- Professor, Ophthalmology, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science
- wmerigan@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4872
- G-4101 Medical Center
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
- rmiller3@ur.rochester.edu
- 303F Meliora Hall
Interests: Sex differences in brains and behaviors
Mink, Jonathan
- Professor, Neurology, Child Neurology, Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- jonathan_mink@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-2808
- 5-5511 Medical Center
Interests: Physiology of movement; function of the basal ganglia; pathophysiology of movement disorders (Dystonia, Chorea); Tourette syndrome; Batten disease
Mitchell, Jude
- Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- jmitch27@ur.rochester.edu
- 307 Meliora Hall
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
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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
- samuel_norman-haignere@urmc.rochester.edu
- 4.133 Saunders Research Building
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
- alison.peterman@gmail.com
- 520 Lattimore
Interests: History and philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception
Peterson, Sara
- Graphic Designer & Website Manager, Center for Visual Science and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
- speter11@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-2459
- 362A Meliora Hall
Piazza, Elise
- Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience
Interests: communication; auditory perception; music cognition; naturalistic paradigms; two-person neuroscience; learning and development across the lifespan
Poletti, Martina
- Assistant Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science
- martina_poletti@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4801, (585) 273-3081
- 312 Meliora Hall
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Romanski, Lizabeth
- Associate Professor, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Center for Visual Science
- Associate Chair, Neurobiology & Anatomy
- Liz_Romanski@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 273-1469
Rosengren, Karl
- Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Psychology
- kroseng2@ur.rochester.edu
- 406 Meliora Hall
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
- mrucci@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 276-4023, (585) 273-3081
- 309 Meliora Hall
Interests: Vision and Action
Runner, Jeffrey T.
he/him/his
- Dean of the College in Arts, Sciences and Engineering
- Professor of Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
- jeffrey.runner@rochester.edu
- 317L Lattimore Hall
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.
M.Tech. - Advisor: Snyder
- bsahoo@ur.rochester.edu
- 149 Meliora Hall
Schieber, Marc
- Professor, Neurology, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science
- mschiebe@ur.rochester.edu
- 6-8537 Medical Center
Interests: Neural control of hand and finger movements
Schultz, Michele
- Assistant to the Chair, BCS/Administrative Assistant, Center for Visual Science
- mschultz@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8659
- 361 Meliora Hall
Scott, Hayden
- Graduate Student
- B.S.
- Advisor: Snyder
- hscott5@ur.rochester.edu
- 302 cubicle Meliora Hall
Interests: attention; working memory; addiction; schizophrenia; ADHD
Snyder, Adam
- Assistant Professor
- adam.snyder@rochester.edu | Office (585) 275-8453
- 318 Meliora Hall
Interests: Micro- and macro-scale mechanisms of visual attention
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Tadin, Duje
- Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Ophthalmology, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science
Chair, Brain & Cognitive Sciences - Director of Training, Center for Visual Science
- Dtadin@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8682
- 310 Meliora Hall
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
- dtemperley@esm.rochester.edu | (585) 274-1557
- 26 Gibbs Street
Thompson, Susan Peirce
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
- Founder and CEO, Bright Line Eating Solutions, LLC
Interests: The neuroscience of food addiction; The key factors that drive sustainable weight loss; Willpower
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White, Aaron
- Assistant Professor, Linguistics
- aaron.white@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8053
- 511A Lattimore Hall
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
- david.williams@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8672
Interests: Limits of human vision
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Xu, Yuhang
- PhD student, Linguistics and Brain and Cognitives Sciences
- Advisor: Runner; Tanenhaus
- yuhang.xu@rochester.edu
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Psycholinguistics; Cognitive Sciences
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Yang, Chung-Lin Martin
- Assistant Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Instructional Track
- chung-lin.yang@rochester.edu | (585) 275-1812
- 322 Meliora Hall
Interests: Psycho- and neurolinguistics; speech perception/production; word recognition (both visual and spoken); word learning; evolution of human cognition; second language acquisition
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Zhu, Yuhao
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Center for Visual Science
Bridging Fellow in Brain & Cognitive Sciences
- yzhu@rochester.edu | office (585) 275-1192
- 3501 Wegmans Hall