Primary Faculty
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Biro, Dora
Beverly Petterson Bishop and Charles W. Bishop Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Interim Chair, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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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
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- 6-8545 URMC
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- (585) 276-3736
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Chapman, Robert
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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- 243 Meliora Hall
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- (585) 275-8676
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Davis, Kevin
Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Instructional Track
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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- 303E Meliora Hall
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- (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
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- 321 Meliora Hall
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- (585) 275-8677
Interests: 3D vision and navigation; Multisensory integration; Neural coding; Decision-making
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Gomez-Ramirez, Manuel
Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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Interests: haptics; somatosensation; selective attention; cross-modal perception; neural coding and neural correlations
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Haefner, Ralf
Associate Professor
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- 313 Meliora Hall
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- (585) 276-7453
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Interests: perceptual decision-making; probabilistic inference; selective attention; neural population encoding and decoding; depth perception/processing of binocular disparity
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Iordan, Coraline Rinn
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Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience
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- 308 Meliora Hall
- cora@rochester.edu
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Interests: visual and semantic cognition; learning; attention; neuroplasticity; real-time fMRI; neurofeedback; machine learning; neural networks; data science
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Jacobs, Robert A.
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, and the Center for Visual Science
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- 306 Meliora Hall
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- (585) 275-0753
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Interests: cognitive and perceptual learning; neural computation
Jaeger, T. Florian
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science
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- 320 Meliora Hall
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- (585) 276-3611
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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.)
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Kurumada, Chigusa
Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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- 304 Meliora Hall
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- (585) 275-0760
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Miller, Renee
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Instructional Track
Director, Undergraduate Neuroscience Program
Co-Director, Rochester Early Medical Scholars
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- 303F Meliora Hall
Interests: Sex differences in brains and behaviors
Mitchell, Jude
Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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- 307 Meliora Hall
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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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Piazza, Elise
Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience
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Interests: communication; auditory perception; music cognition; naturalistic paradigms; two-person neuroscience; learning and development across the lifespan
Poletti, Martina
Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 312 Meliora Hall
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- (585) 275-4801
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- (585) 273-3081
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Rosengren, Karl
Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Psychology
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- 406 Meliora Hall
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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
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- 309 Meliora Hall
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Interests: Vision and Action
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Sasaki, Takao
Associate Professor
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- 316 Meliora Hall
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Interests: Collective animal behavior; Collective learning; Animal cognition; Animal culture
Snyder, Adam
Assistant Professor
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- 318 Meliora Hall
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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
Interim Dean, School of Arts & Sciences
Director of Training, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 310 Meliora Hall
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- (585) 275-8682
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Interests: neural mechanisms of visual perception
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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