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faculty
Géraldine Legendre
Professor & Chair
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- Krieger 249 | 230 (lab)
- 410-516-6844 (admin office)
Research Interests: Adult and child syntax; Optimality Theory; models of the interfaces; cross-linguistic variation
Education: PhD, University of California San Diego
Mick Bonner
Assistant Professor, Colloquium Chair
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- Krieger 153 | 107 (lab)
- Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Computational neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, vision, neural networks, deep learning, advanced statistical methods for neuroscience
Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania
John T. Hale
Research Professor, Director of Graduate Admissions
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- Krieger 243
Research Interests: Computational linguistics, corpus methods, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Jennifer Hu
Assistant Research Professor
Assistant Professor eff. July 2025
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Research Interests: Computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, artificial intelligence, pragmatics, language processing, social cognition
Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Leyla Isik (she/her/hers)
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor
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- Krieger 151 | 119 (lab)
- Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Computational cognitive neuroscience, vision, social perception, neural networks
Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Annemarie Kocab (she/her)
Assistant Professor
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- Krieger 155 | 131 (lab)
Research Interests: Language emergence, language acquisition, language processing, sign languages
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Barbara Landau
Dick and Lydia Todd Professor, Interim Director of Graduate Studies
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- Krieger 241A | 231 (lab)
- Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Human knowledge of language and space, typical and atypical development
Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Michael McCloskey
Professor, Homewood IRB Chair
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- [email protected]
- Krieger 143A | 143 (lab)
- 410-516-5325
- Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Reading and writing, visual perception, cognitive neuropsychology, foundations of cognitive science
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Brenda Rapp
Research Professor
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- [email protected]
- Krieger 135A | 135 (lab)
- Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Cognitive neuropsychology, attention, reading and writing
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Kyle Rawlins
Associate Professor
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- Krieger 149 | 105 (lab)
- Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Formal semantics, pragmatics, syntax, and the interfaces of these areas, computational semantics, philosophy of language.
Education: PhD, University of California Santa Cruz
Margaret E. L. Renwick (she/her)
Associate Research Professor
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- Krieger 169 | 138 (lab)
- 410-516-7980
- Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Sociophonetics, laboratory phonology, phonetics, speech acoustics, linguistics
Education: PhD, Cornell University
Paul Smolensky (he/him)
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor
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- [email protected]
- Krieger 241B | Krieger 234A (lab)
Research Interests: Universal grammar in Optimality Theory, integration of connectionist ('neural') and symbolic computation: computational, linguistic, and philosophical issues
Education: PhD, Indiana University
Colin Wilson
Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
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- Krieger 247 | 138 (lab)
- 410-516-0382 (academic admin)
Research Interests: Theoretical and experimental phonology, phonetics, cross-language perception and production, computational modeling
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Alan Yuille
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science & Computer Science
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- Clark 324B | Krieger 147 (lab)
- Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Computational models of vision, mathematical models of cognition, and artificial intelligence and neural networks
Education: PhD, University of Cambridge
Teaching Faculty
Pasha Koval (he/him)
Visiting Assistant Professor
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- [email protected]
- Krieger 245
Research Interests: Experimental syntax
Education: PhD, University of Connecticut
Uyen Le (she/her/hers)
Junior Lecturer/Professional TA
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- [email protected]
- Krieger 171
Education: MA, Johns Hopkins University
Donald Li
Visiting Assistant Professor
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- Krieger 245
Research Interests: Computational cognitive neuroscience, AI and neural networks, Visual perception, Reading and writing, Virtual Reality and vision
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Julia Yarmolinskaya
Senior Lecturer
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- Krieger 171
Research Interests: Perception and acquisition of second language phonology
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
administrative staff
Sarah Ciotola (she/her/hers)
Sr. Administrative Manager
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- [email protected]
- Krieger 237E
- 410-516-6844
Chamera Sampson (she/her/hers)
Sr. Academic Program Coordinator
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- Krieger 237B
- 410-516-0382
Bernard Nwankwo
Sr. Systems Administrator, KSAS IT
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- Krieger 173
lab staff
Avery Kaye
Research Coordinator for the Language and Cognition (Landau) Lab
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Research Interests: Behavioral and neuroimaging techniques in the developing brain
Cassie Kim
Research Coordinator for the Language Creation & Learning (Kocab) Lab
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- Krieger 131
- 410-516-5745
Wenshuo Qin
Research Coordinator for the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (Isik) Lab
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- Krieger 119
- Group/Lab Website
Jennifer Shea
Sr Research Program Coordinator for the Cognitive & Brain Sciences Lab
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postdocs and research scientists
Yuan Tao
Assistant Research Scientist, Cognitive and Brain Sciences Lab
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- Krieger 135 Lab
Research Interests: Reading and writing, aphasia recovery, statistical machine learning, neuroimaging, brain connectivity
Yuanfang Zhao
Postdoctoral Fellow for the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
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- Krieger 119 Lab
Affiliated faculty
Marina Bedny
Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Interests: Brain development and plasticity, cognitive neuroscience, concepts
Justin Bledin
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
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Research Interests: Logic, philosophy of language (esp. formal semantics), epistemology
Dana Boatman
Professor, School of Medicine, Neurology and Neurosurgery
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Research Interests: Speech perception, auditory processing disorders, auditory neurophysiology
Emory Davis
Fellow by Courtesy in the Language and Cognition Lab (Landau Lab)
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Research Interests: Role of language in cognitive development; understanding of abstract concepts; mental/ attitude verbs
John E. Desmond
Professor, School of Medicine, Neurology and Neurosurgery
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Research Interests: Neuroimaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation methods to investigate neural correlates of behavior
Jason Eisner
Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Computer Science
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Research Interests: Computational linguistics, natural language processing, statistical machine learning
Lisa Feigenson
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Interests: Cognitive development
Chaz Firestone
Associate Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences
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Research Interests: Perception, attention, visual cognition, foundations of cognitive science
Jonathan Flombaum
Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Interests: Visual perception, attention, cognition
Kristin Gagnier
Assistant Research Scientist in the Language & Cognition Lab (Landau Lab)
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Research Interests: interdisciplinary training in connecting cognitive science research to education practices
Barry Gordon
Professor, School of Medicine, Neurology and Neurosurgery
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Research Interests: Cognitive neurology, cognitive neuroscience, language, aphasia, memory, amnesia, and memory disorders, autism, computational models of cognition
Steven Gross
Professor, Philosophy, Foundations of Mind Group
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Research Interests: Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics
Norberto Grzywacz
Visiting Professor
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Research Interests: Cognitive and computational neuroscience of aesthetic emotions
Justin Halberda
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Interests: Cognitive and developmental psychology
Argye Hillis
Professor, School of Medicine, Neurology and Neurosurgery
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Research Interests: Language impairments in acute stroke, hemispatial neglect after stroke, relationship between cognitive impairments and regions of hypoperfused brain
Haemy Lee Masson
Fellow by Courtesy in the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
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Research Interests: Social cognition, Computational models of social scene perception, Social impairments in autism
Shari Liu
Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Research Interests: Cognitive development, cognitive neuroscience, infant cognition, social cognition
Alex Lu
Fellow by Courtesy in the Language Creation and Learning Lab
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Research Interests: Artificial intelligence; computer vision; medical, health and genomics
Emalie McMahon (she/her)
Fellow by Courtesy in the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
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Research Interests: Cognitive neuroscience, visual perception
Brice Ménard
Professor, Physics and Astronomy
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Research Interests: Machine Learning, astrophysics & complex systems
Jeremy Purcell
Fellow by Courtesy in the Cognitive & Brain Sciences Lab (Rapp Lab)
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Research Interests: Written language representation and brain injury
Tianmin Shu
Assistant Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Computer Science
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Research Interests: Social AI, human-robot interaction, and computational social cognition
Kyrana Tsapkini
Associate Professor, Neurology, School of Medicine
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Research Interests: language--combining cognitive science, psychology, neural science approaches
Benjamin Van Durme
Associate Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Computer Science
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Research Interests: Natural language processing, specifically semantics; streaming/randomized algorithms
Robert Wiley
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Cognitive & Brain Sciences Lab (Rapp Lab)
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Research Interests: Cognitive science and education, mental representation and learning, neural plasticity, second language acquisition
Emeriti
Luigi Burzio
Professor Emeritus
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Research Interests: Theoretical phonology, morphology, and syntax; romance linguistics
Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology