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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

 

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

 

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

 

Other Faculty Appointments

Joan Chen-Main
Lecturer: Grammar formalisms for natural language syntax and phonology; Tree Adjoining Grammar; Optimality Theory; Language acquisition, Mandarin linguistics, and bilingualism.

Jennifer Culbertson
Adjunct Assistant Professor: Language acquisition; language change; Linguistic typology and universals; Theoretical syntax and morphology; Computational models of language learning and change; Artificial language learning and grammaticality judgments

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

Julia Yarmolinskaya
Lecturer: Perception and Acquisition of Second Language Phonology


Graduate Students

Emily Atkinson       atkinson@cogsci.jhu.edu

Research interests:theoretical syntax, language acquisition

Charley Beller            beller@cogsci.jhu.edu

Research interests: syntax, semantics/pragmatics, prosody

Bonnie Breining         breining@cogsci.jhu.edu

Research interests: cognitive and neural bases of written and spoken language processing

Eleanor Chodroff     chodroff@cogsci.jhu.edu

Research interests: Phonetics, speech perception and production, phonology, language acquisition

Esther Chung      chung@cogsci.jhu.edu

New student, Fall 2012

Ian Coffman             coffman@cogsci.jhu.edu

Research interests: Phonology, Phonetics, Optimality Theory, Cognitive neuropsychology

Katrina Ferrara         ferrara@cogsci.jhu.edu

Research interests: cognitive development, spatial cognition, scene perception

Miles Hatfield        hatfield@cogsci.jhu.edu

Research interests: High-level vision, spatial cognition, mental imagery, theoretically-oriented research problems

Lisa Hsin                   hsin@cogsci.jhu.edu

Research interests: First language acquisition, Cognitive development, Bilingualism & second-language acquisition, Foundations of cognitive science & syntactic theories, Philosophy of mind

Kristen Johannes       johannes@cogsci.jhu.edu

Research interests: acquisition; semantics; spatial language and cognition

Christo Kirov            kirov@cogsci.jhu.edu

Research interests: using formal mathematical tools, particularly bayesian statistics and information theory, to help understand a variety of cognitive processes

Michael Oliver          oliver@cogsci.jhu.edu

Research interests: philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, semantics, optimality theory

David Rothlein          rothlein@cogsci.jhu.edu

Research interests: Cognitive Neuropsychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, fMRI

Teresa Schubert         schubert@cogsci.jhu.edu

Research interests: cognitive neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience

Robert Wiley        wiley@cogsci.jhu.edu

Research interests: Applying Cognitive Science to Education, language processing, second language acquisition, developmental language disorders

Erin Zaroukian          zaroukian@cogsci.jhu.edu

Research interests: semantics, syntax, language acquisition

 


Postdocs

Emma Gregory gregory@cogsci.jhu.edu

Jeremy Purcell purcell@cogsci.jhu.edu


Visiting Scholars

Anne Vainikka


Alumni

Ph.D. Recipients Placement page

 


Administrative and Lab Staff

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

Barbara Fisher
Administrative Assistant
(410) 516-5250
fisher@cogsci.jhu.edu

Sarah Ciotola
Academic Program Coordinator
(410) 516-6844
ciotola@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
Lab Manager- Language and Cognition Lab (Dr. Landau)
(410) 516-6843
kelliher@cogsci.jhu.edu

Matthew Levine
Research Assistant
Lab Manager- Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (Dr. Park)
(410) 516-5749
levine@cogsci.jhu.edu

Jennifer Shea
Sr. Research Program Coordinator
Lab Manager- CogNeuro Lab (Dr. Rapp)
(410) 516-5244
shea@cogsci.jhu.edu