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Loisa Bennetto

Bennetto, Loisa

Associate Professor of Psychology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Neuroscience

Office Location
492 Meliora Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8712
Web Address
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Interests: Neurocognitive bases of autism; The role of multisensory processing in social-communication difficulties

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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

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Corser, Kathy

Graduate Programs Administrator

Office Location
358 Meliora Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-1844

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Dambra, Christine

Accounting Assistant

Office Location
362 Meliora Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-7115
Kevin Davis

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

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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Fiebelkorn, Ian

Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Office Location
5-6419 Medical Center
Telephone
Office (585) 275-8668
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Interests: Cognition; Selective attention; Working memory; Visual processing

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Daniel Gildea

Gildea, Daniel

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3019 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-7230
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Interests: Machine translation; Semantic parsing; Algorithms for natural language processing

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Gillis, Jennifer

Supervisor, Academic Finance and Operations

Office Location
360 Meliora Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-2852

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Suzanne Haber

Haber, Suzanne

Professor, Pharmacology & Physiology, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Office Location
5-6518 Medical Center
Telephone
(585) 275-6959
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Interests: Basal Ganglia; degenerative disease

Ralf Haefner

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

Krystel Huxlin

Huxlin, Krystel

Professor, Ophthalmology, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science

James V. Aquavella Professor, Ophthalmology

URMC Ombudsperson

Associate Director, Center for Visual Science

Office Location
2-6728 Medical Center
Telephone
(585) 275-5495
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Interests: Improving vision after damage

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Iordan, Coraline Rinn

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Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience

Office Location
308 Meliora Hall
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Interests: visual and semantic cognition; learning; attention; neuroplasticity; real-time fMRI; neurofeedback; machine learning; neural networks; data science

James Ison

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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Robert Jacobs

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

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Kanan, Christopher

Associate Professor, Computer Science, Center for Visual Science, Brain & Cognitive Sciences

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Interests: Artificial intelligence; Continual Learning; Vision; Brain-inspired algorithms

David Kornack

Kornack, David

Associate Professor, Neuroscience

Office Location
5-7215 Medical Center
Telephone
(MC) (585) 273-3140
Telephone
(Mel) (585) 273-4719
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Website

Interests: Neurogenesis in the Developing and Adult Mammalian Brain

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Peter Lennie

Lennie, Peter

Jay Last Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science

Office Location
316 Meliora Hall

Interests: functional organization of vision; color vision

Feng Vankee Lin

Lin, Feng Vankee

Associate Professor, Nursing, Psychiatry, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Neuroscience

Office Location
2w128 Helen Wood Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-6002
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Elizabeth Marvin West

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
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Website

Interests: music cognition

William Merigan

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

Renee Miller

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

Jude Mitchell

Mitchell, Jude

Associate 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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Norman-Haignere, Samuel

Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Computational Biology, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Biomedical Engineering

Office Location
4.133 Saunders Research Building
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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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Tania Pasternak

Pasternak, Tatiana

Professor Emeritus, Neuroscience, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science

Alison Peterman

Peterman, Alison

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy

Co-Chair, Department of Philosophy

Office Location
520 Lattimore
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Interests: History and philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception

Elise Piazza

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

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Lizabeth Romanski

Romanski, Lizabeth

Associate Professor, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Center for Visual Science

Associate Chair, Neurobiology & Anatomy

Telephone
(585) 273-1469
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Karl Rosengren

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

Jeff Runner

Runner, Jeffrey T.

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Professor of Linguistics

Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Vice Provost and University Dean for Undergraduate Education

Office Location
317L Lattimore Hall

Interests: Experimental Syntax; Syntactic/Linguistic Theory; Binding Theory; Syntax Processing; Phrase Structure; Syntax/Semantics Interface

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Marc Schieber

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

Michele Schultz

Schultz, Michele

Administrative Assistant, BCS and CVS / Assistant to BCS Chairperson

Office Location
361 Meliora Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8659

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Duje Tadin

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
Telephone
(585) 275-8682
Web Address
Website

Interests: neural mechanisms of visual perception

Michael Tanenhaus

Tanenhaus, Michael K.

Beverly Petterson Bishop and Charles W. Bishop Professor Emeritus, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics

Interests: psycholinguistics; language and reading comprehension

Susan Peirce Thompson

Thompson, Susan Peirce

Adjunct Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Founder and CEO, Bright Line Eating Solutions, LLC

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Interests: The neuroscience of food addiction; The key factors that drive sustainable weight loss; Willpower

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White, Aaron

Assistant Professor, Linguistics

Office Location
511A Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8053
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Interests: computational psycholinguistics; syntactic and semantic theory; first language acquisition

David Williams

Williams, David

Professor, Optics, Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science

Allyn Chair, Medical Optics

Telephone
(585) 275-8672
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Interests: Limits of human vision

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Martin Yang

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

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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
Web Address
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