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Géraldine Legendre

Professor & Chair

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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Research Interests: Reading and writing, visual perception, cognitive neuropsychology, foundations of cognitive science

Education: PhD, Princeton University

Kyle Rawlins

Associate Professor

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Research Interests: Formal semantics, pragmatics, syntax, and the interfaces of these areas, computational semantics, philosophy of language.

Education: PhD, University of California Santa Cruz

Paul Smolensky (he/him)

Krieger-Eisenhower Professor

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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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Research Interests: Theoretical and experimental phonology, phonetics, cross-language perception and production, computational modeling

Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Alan Yuille

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

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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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Research Interests: Experimental syntax

Education: PhD, University of Connecticut

Uyen Le (she/her/hers)

Junior Lecturer/Professional TA

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Education: MA, Johns Hopkins University

Donald Li

Visiting Assistant Professor

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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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Research Interests: Perception and acquisition of second language phonology

Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

administrative staff

Sarah Ciotola (she/her/hers)

Administrative Manager

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Chamera Sampson (she/her/hers)

Sr. Academic Program Coordinator

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Brance Amussen

Sr. Systems Administrator, KSAS IT

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Bernard Nwankwo

Sr. Systems Administrator, KSAS IT

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lab staff

postdocs and research scientists

Yuan Tao

Assistant Research Scientist, Cognitive and Brain Sciences Lab

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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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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

Chaz Firestone

Associate Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences

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Research Interests: Perception, attention, visual cognition, foundations of cognitive science

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

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

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

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