Primary Faculty
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![Dora Biro profile](biro_dora/assets/images/biro_dora.jpg)
Biro, Dora
Beverly Petterson Bishop and Charles W. Bishop Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Professor of 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
![Farran Briggs](briggs_farran/assets/images/briggs.jpg)
Briggs, Farran
Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 6-8545 URMC
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3736
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![Robert Chapman](chapman_robert/assets/images/r_chapman.jpg)
Chapman, Robert
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Office Location
- 243 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8676
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![Kevin Davis](davis_kevin/assets/images/davis_k.jpg)
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
![Greg DeAngelis](deangelis_greg/assets/images/deangelis.jpg)
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
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![Manuel Gomez-Ramirez](gomez-ramirez_manuel/assets/images/gomez-ramirez-manuel.jpg)
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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![Ralf Haefner](haefner_ralf/assets/images/haefner_ralf.jpeg)
Haefner, Ralf
Associate Professor
- Office Location
- 313 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (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, Marius Cătălin
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Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience
- Office Location
- 308 Meliora Hall
- mci@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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![Robert Jacobs](jacobs_robert/assets/images/jacobs.jpg)
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
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Interests: cognitive and perceptual learning; neural computation
![T. Florian Jaeger](jaeger_florian/assets/images/jaeger.jpg)
Jaeger, T. Florian
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science
- Office Location
- 320 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3611
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![Chigusa Kurumada](kurumada_chigusa/assets/images/chigusa_kurumada.jpg)
Kurumada, Chigusa
Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Office Location
- 304 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0760
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![Renee Miller](miller_renee/assets/images/miller_renee.jpg)
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
Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Office Location
- 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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![Elise Piazza](piazza_elise/assets/images/elise_piazza.jpg)
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
![Martina Poletti](poletti_martina/assets/images/poletti.jpg)
Poletti, Martina
Assistant Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 312 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4801
- Telephone
- (585) 273-3081
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![Karl Rosengren](rosengren_karl/assets/images/rosengren.jpg)
Rosengren, Karl
Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Psychology
- Office Location
- 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
![Michele Rucci](rucci_michele/assets/images/MRucci.jpg)
Rucci, Michele
Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 309 Meliora Hall
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Interests: Vision and Action
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![Adam Snyder](snyder_adam/assets/images/snyder.jpg)
Snyder, Adam
Assistant Professor
- Office Location
- 318 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- Office (585) 275-8453
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Interests: Micro- and macro-scale mechanisms of visual attention
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![Duje Tadin](tadin_duje/assets/images/tadin.jpg)
Tadin, Duje
Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Ophthalmology, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science
Chair, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Director of Training, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 310 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8682
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Interests: neural mechanisms of visual perception
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![Martin Yang](yang_chung-lin_martin/assets/images/yang_martin.jpg)
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