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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

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

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Research Interests: Human knowledge of language and space, typical and atypical development

Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Brenda Rapp

Professor, Director of Graduate Admissions

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Research Interests: Cognitive neuropsychology, attention, reading and writing

Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Kyle Rawlins

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

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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

lecturers

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

professor emeriti

Luigi Burzio

Professor Emeritus

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Research Interests: Theoretical phonology, morphology, and syntax; romance linguistics

Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

secondary faculty appointments

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

Chaz Firestone

Assistant Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences

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

Shari Liu

Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

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Research Interests: Cognitive development, cognitive neuroscience, infant cognition, social cognition

joint faculty appointments

Dana Boatman

Professor, School of Medicine, Neurology and Neurosurgery

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Research Interests: Speech perception, auditory processing disorders, auditory neurophysiology

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

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

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

other appointments

Jennifer Culbertson

Adjunct Professor in the Language Acquisition Lab (Legendre Lab)

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Research Interests: 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

Emory Davis

Visiting Scholar 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

Katrina Ferrara

Visiting Scholar in the Language and Cognition Lab (Landau Lab)

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Research Interests: understanding how the mind makes sense of the spatial world around us

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

Haemy Lee Masson

Visiting Scholar in the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (Isik Lab)

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Research Interests: Social cognition, Computational models of social scene perception, Social impairments in autism

Tal Linzen

Adjunct Assistant Professor

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Research Interests: Computational models of language acquisition and comprehension, human sentence processing

Alex Lu

Visiting Scholar in the Language Creation and Learning (Kocab) Lab

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Research Interests: Artificial intelligence; computer vision; medical, health and genomics

Zoe Ovans

Visiting Scholar in the Language & Cognition Lab (Landau Lab)

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Jeremy Purcell

Adjunct Assistant Research Scientist in the Cognitive & Brain Sciences Lab (Rapp Lab)

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Research Interests: Written language representation and brain injury

Yuan Tao

Assistant Research Scientist in the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Lab

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Research Interests: Reading and writing, aphasia recovery, statistical machine learning, neuroimaging, brain connectivity

Wade Townley

Visiting Scholar in the Cognitive Neuroscience & Machine Learning Lab (Bonner Lab)

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Research Interests: Representations, visual perception, computational cognitive neuroscience, foundations of cognitive science, AI

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

postdoctoral fellows

Colin Conwell

Postdoctoral Fellow for the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (Isik) Lab and Cognitive Neuroscience & Machine Learning (Bonner) Lab

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Research Interests: Cognitive (neuro)science & machine learning (AI), multimodal (vision-language) modeling of brains & behavior

Yuanfang Zhao

Postdoctoral Fellow for the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab

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administrative staff

Sarah Ciotola (she/her/hers)

Administrative Manager

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Sue Potterfield

Budget Analyst

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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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research laboratory staff

Atlas Kazemian

Research Coordinator for the Cognitive Neuroscience & Machine Learning (Bonner) Lab

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Research Interests: Cognitive neuroscience, computational models of vision, visual perception

Cassie Kim

Research Coordinator for the Kocab Lab

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