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Faculty

Barbara Landau
Dick and Lydia Todd Professor, and
Vice-Provost for Faculty Affairs

Office: Krieger 241A
landau@cogsci.jhu.edu
Lab Website
(410) 516-5255

Geraldine Legendre
Professor
Director of Graduate Admissions
Office: Krieger 249
legendre@cogsci.jhu.edu
Lab Website
(410) 516-4838

Michael McCloskey
Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Office: Krieger 147C
michael.mccloskey@jhu.edu
Lab Website
(410) 516-5325

Akira Omaki
Assistant Professor
Office: Krieger 243
omaki@cogsci.jhu.edu
Lab Website
(410) 516-4945

Soojin Park
Assistant Professor
Office: Krieger 151
park@cogsci.jhu.edu
Lab website
(410) 516-0544

Brenda Rapp
Professor
Cognitive Science Department Chair
Office: Krieger 135
rapp@cogsci.jhu.edu
Lab Website
(410) 516-5248

Kyle Rawlins
Assistant Professor
Office: Krieger 149
rawlins@cogsci.jhu.edu
(410) 516-5330

 

Paul Smolensky
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Cognitive Science
Office: Krieger 241B
smolensky@jhu.edu
(410) 516-5114


Colin Wilson
Associate Professor
Office: Krieger 247
wilson@cogsci.jhu.edu
(410) 516-8699


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Emeritus Faculty

Luigi Burzio
Professor Emeritus
burzio@cogsci.jhu.edu

 

Joint Faculty Appointments

Dana Boatman
Professor, School of Medicine, Neurology-Epilepsy: speech perception, auditory processing disorders, auditory neurophysiology

John E. Desmond
Associate Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience: Neuroimaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation methods to investigate neural correlates of behavior

Jason Eisner
Associate Professor (Computer Science): computational linguistics (syntax and phonology), natural language processing, statistical machine learning

Barry Gordon
Professor,
Therapeutic Cognitive Neuroscience  (Neurology, Medicine): cognitive neurology, cognitive neuroscience, language, aphasia, memory, amnesia and memory disorders, autism, computational models of cognition, and cognitive

Argye Hillis-Trupe 
Professor (Neurology, Medicine): language impairments in acute stroke, hemispatial neglect after stroke, relationship between cognitive impairments and regions of hypoperfused brain

Guy McKhann
Professor (Neurology and Neuroscience, Medicine): neurologic and cognitive changes after cardiac surgery

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Secondary Faculty Appointments

Howard Egeth
Professor (Psychological and Brain Sciences): perception, attention

Lisa Feigenson
Associate Professor (Psychological and Brain Sciences): cognitive development

Steven Gross
Associate Professor (Philosophy): philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics

Justin Halberda
Associate Professor (Psychological and Brain Sciences): cognitive and developmental psychology

Steven Yantis
Professor (Psychological and Brain Sciences): visual perception, attention, and functional neuroimaging

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Other Faculty Appointments

Michele Miozzo
Assistant Research Professor: cognitive neuropsychology, psycholinguistics, spoken language production

Maureen Stone
Adjunct Professor (Director, Vocal Tract Visualization Lab, Department of Oral and Craniofacial Biological Sciences, Department of Orthodontics, University of Maryland Dental School): speech science, phonetics, vocal tract and tongue kinesiology, measurement and modeling

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Graduate Students

Emily Atkinson

Charley Beller

Bonnie Breining

Catherine Chambers

Ian Coffman

Katrina Ferrara

Ozge Gurcanli

Lisa Hsin

Kristen Johannes

Christo Kirov

Michael Oliver

Lilia Rissman

David Rothlein

Teresa Schubert

Manuel (Manny) Vindiola

Erin Zaroukian

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Postdocs

Emma Gregory gregory@cogsci.jhu.edu

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Visiting Scholars

 

Joshua Goldberg joshgold@cogsci.jhu.edu

Joshua Viau viau@cogsci.jhu.edu

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Research Scientists

Olivier Dufor dufor@cogsci.jhu.edu

 

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Alumni

Ph.D. Recipients

Deepti Ramadoss

Michael Wolmetz

Simon Fischer-Baum, 2010
Postdoctoral Researcher
Beckman Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation: Position Representation: General Principles or Domain-Specificity?

Jennifer Culbertson, 2010
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Rochester
Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Dissertation: Learning biases, regularization, and the emergence of typological universals in syntax.

Monica Lopez-Gonzalez, 2010
Dissertation: Ser and Estar:  Their syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and acquisition in Mexican Spanish

Emma Gregory, 2010
Postdoctoral fellow with the Neuro-Education Initiative at Johns Hopkins University School of Education
Dissertation: Representing the orientation of objects: Evidence from mirror-image confusion.

Julia Yarmolinskaya, 2010
Center for Language Education, Johns Hopkins University.
Dissertation: Perception and Acquisition of Second Language Phonology

Ariel Goldberg, 2010
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Tufts University
Dissertation: Gradient well-formedness across the morpheme boundary

Adam Wayment, 2009
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Dissertation: Assimilation as Attraction: Computing Distance, Similarity and Locality in Phonology

Banchiamlack Dessalegn, 2008
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago
Dissertation: A vision of language: The mechanism, development, and consequence of an interaction between language and vision.

Sara Finley, 2008
Postdoctoral Fellow
Brain and Cognitive Science Department, University of Rochester
Dissertation: Formal and cognitive restrictions on vowel harmony

Rebecca Morley, 2008
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University
Dissertation: Generalization, Lexical Statistics, and Typologically Rare Systems

Tamara Nicol-Medina, 2007
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
Dissertation: Learning which verbs allow object omission: Verb semantic selectivity and the implicit object construction

Virginia Savova, 2006
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation: Structures and Strings

Joan Chen-Main 2006
Visiting Faculty
Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University
Dissertation: On the Generation and Linearization of Multi-Dominance Structures

Gaja Jarosz-Snover, 2006
Assistant Professor
Yale University, Linguistics Department
Dissertation: Rich Lexicons and Restrictive Grammars - Maximum Likelihood Learning in Optimality Theory

Jared Medina, 2006
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Pennsylvania, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Dissertation: Somatosensory frames of reference

Adam Buchwald, 2005
Assistant Professor
NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Educ & Human Dev.
Dissertation: Sound structure representation, repair and well-formedness: Grammar in spoken language production

Daniel Dilks, 2005
Postdoctoral Fellow
MIT, McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Dissertation: Human adult cortical reorganization and consequent visual distortion

Laura Lakusta, 2005
Assistant Professor
Montclair State University, Department of Psychology
Dissertation: Source and goal asymmetry in non-linguistic motion event representations

Lisa Davidson, 2003
Assistant Professor
New York University, Linguistics Department
Dissertation: The atoms of phonological representation: Gestures, coordination and perceptual features in consonant cluster phonotactics  

John Hale, 2003
Associate Professor
Cornell University, Linguistics Department
Dissertation: Grammar, Uncertainty and Sentence Processing.

Matthew Goldrick, 2002
Associate Professor
Northwestern University, WCAS Linguistics
Dissertation: Patterns of Sounds, Patterns in Mind: Phonological Regularities in Speech Production

Frantisek (Fero) Kuminiak, 2002
Dissertation: The Role of Lexical Ambiguity in the Production of Subject-Verb Agreement

Colin Wilson, 2000
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Linguistics, UCLA
Dissertation: Targeted Constraints: An approach to contextual neutralization in Optimality Theory

Mark D. Allen, 2000
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University
Dissertation: The Representation and Processing of Inflected Forms in a Multilevel Lexical System 

Timothy Andrew Cartwright, 1996
Dissertation: Early Acquisition of Syntactic Categories: Theory and Simulations   

Adamantios I. Gafos, 1996
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics, New York University
Dissertation: The Articulatory Basis of Locality in Phonology.
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Elwyn Charles Leek, 1996
Associate Professor
Bangor University, Psychology Department
Dissertation: The Representation of Object Orientation

John William Whalen, 1996
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Psychology
University of Delaware
Dissertation: The Influence of Semantic Number Representations on Arithmetic Fact Retrieval  

Doriana Chialant, 1995
Clinical Instructor in Psychology
McClean Hospital, Belmont (Harvard Medical Affiliate)
Dissertation: Identity and Similarity Factors in Repetition Blindness 

 

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Administrative and Lab Staff

Peggy MacKenzie
Administrative Manager
(410) 516-5331
mackenzie@cogsci.jhu.edu

Barbara Fisher
Academic Program Coordinator
(410) 516-5250
fisher@cogsci.jhu.edu

Susan Potterfield
Budget Analyst
(410) 516-5100
potterfield@cogsci.jhu.edu

Donald Mathis
Software Engineer 
(410) 516-6851
mathis@cogsci.jhu.edu

Katherine Kelliher
Research Assistant
(410) 516-6843
kelliher@cogsci.jhu.edu

Jennifer Shea
Sr. Research Program Coordinator
(410) 516-5029
shea@cogsci.jhu.edu

 

 

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