People
faculty
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Géraldine Legendre
Professor & Chair
PhD, University of California San Diego410-516-5331 | 410-516-3334 (lab) legendre@jhu.edu Krieger 249 | 230 (lab) Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Adult and child syntax; Optimality Theory; models of the interfaces; cross-linguistic variation
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Michael Bonner
Assistant Professor eff. 1/1/2019
PhD, University of Pennsylvaniamfbonner@jhu.edu Krieger 153
Research Interests: Cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience, vision, semantic memory, navigation, machine learning, artificial intelligence, neural networks, statistical modeling of neural representations
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Leyla Isik
Claire Booth Luce Assistant Professor eff. 7/1/2019
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technologylisik@jhu.edu Krieger 151 Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Computational cognitive neuroscience, vision, social perception, neural networks
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Barbara Landau
Dick and Lydia Todd Professor
PhD, University of Pennsylvania410-516-5255 | 410-516-4087 (lab) landau@jhu.edu Krieger 241A | 231 (lab) Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Human knowledge of language and space, typical and atypical development
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Tal Linzen
Assistant Professor
Colloquium Planning Co-Chair
PhD, New York University410-516-5331 | 410-516-5745 (lab) tal.linzen@jhu.edu Krieger 243 | 113 (lab) Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Human sentence comprehension, computational psycholinguistics,
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Michael McCloskey
Professor
Homewood IRB Chair
PhD, Princeton University410-516-5325 michael.mccloskey@jhu.edu Krieger 143A | 143 (lab) Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Cognitive neuropsychology, visual perception, reading and spelling, foundations of cognitive science
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Brenda Rapp
Professor
PhD, Johns Hopkins University410-516-5248 | 410-516-5244 (lab) brapp1@jhu.edu Krieger 135 | 131C (lab) Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Cognitive neuropsychology, attention, reading and writing
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Kyle Rawlins
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies, Grad Travel Chair, Colloquium Planning Co-Chair
PhD, University of California Santa Cruz410-516-5330 kgr@jhu.edu Krieger 149 | 105 (lab) Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Natural language semantics and pragmatics, the syntax/semantics interface, and syntax.
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Paul Smolensky
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor
Director of Graduate Admissions
PhD, Indiana University410-516-5331 smolensky@jhu.edu Krieger 241B
Research Interests: Universal grammar in Optimality Theory, integration of connectionist ('neural') and symbolic computation: computational, linguistic, and philosophical issues
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Colin Wilson
Associate Professor;
Director of Undergraduate Studies
PhD, Johns Hopkins University410-516-5331 colin@cogsci.jhu.edu Krieger 247 | 138 (lab)
Research Interests: Theoretical and experimental phonology, phonetics, cross-language perception and production, computational modeling
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Alan Yuille
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
PhD, University of Cambridge410-516-6759 alan.yuille@jhu.edu Clark 324B | Krieger 147 (lab) Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Computational models of vision, mathematical models of cognition, and artificial intelligence and neural networks
professor emeriti
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Luigi Burzio
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Theoretical phonology, morphology, and syntax; romance linguistics
Secondary Faculty Appointments
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Marina Bedny
Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Research Interests: Brain development and plasticity, cognitive neuroscience, concepts
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Lisa Feigenson
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Research Interests: Cognitive development
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Chaz Firestone
Assistant Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Interests: Perception, attention, visual cognition, foundations of cognitive science
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Jonathan Flombaum
Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Research Interests: Visual perception, attention, cognition
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Steven Gross
Professor, Philosophy
Foundations of Mind GroupResearch Interests: Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics
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Justin Halberda
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Research Interests: Cognitive and developmental psychology
Joint Faculty Appointments
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Dana Boatman
Professor, School of Medicine, Neurology and Neurosurgery
Research Interests: Speech perception, auditory processing disorders, auditory neurophysiology
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John E. Desmond
Professor, School of Medicine, Neurology and Neurosurgery
Research Interests: Neuroimaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation methods to investigate neural correlates of behavior
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Jason Eisner
Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Computer Science
Research Interests: Computational linguistics, natural language processing, statistical machine learning
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Barry Gordon
Professor, School of Medicine, Neurology and Neurosurgery
Research Interests: Cognitive neurology, cognitive neuroscience, language, aphasia, memory, amnesia, and memory disorders, autism, computational models of cognition
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Argye Hillis
Professor, School of Medicine, Neurology and Neurosurgery
Research Interests: Language impairments in acute stroke, hemispatial neglect after stroke, relationship between cognitive impairments and regions of hypoperfused brain
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Nazbanou “Bonnie” Nozari
Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Neurology and Neurosurgery
Research Interests: Monitoring and metacognitive processes over language, selective attention in language production, computational models of language production, and aphasia
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Kyrana Tsapkini
Assistant Professor, Neurology, School of Medicine
Research Interests: language--combining cognitive science, psychology, neural science approaches
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Benjamin Van Durme
Assistant Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Computer Science
Research Interests: Natural language processing, specifically semantics; streaming/randomized algorithms
Other Appointments
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Michael Bonner
Assistant Research Professor 7/1-12/31/18 (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania)
Research Interests: Cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience, vision, semantic memory, navigation, machine learning, artificial intelligence, neural networks, statistical modeling of neural representations
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Jennifer Culbertson
Adjunct Assistant Professor (Reader, University of Edinburgh)
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
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Katrina Ferrara
Visiting Scholar (Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgetown University)
Research Interests: understanding how the mind makes sense of the spatial world around us
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Kelly Fisher
Assistant Research Scientist (Associate Director, Science of Learning Institute)
Krieger 168
Research Interests: Developmental science, industrial-organizational psychology, education, and public policy
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Kristin Gagnier
Assistant Research Scientist (Outreach and Evaluation Specialist, Science of Learning Institute)
Krieger 167
Research Interests: interdisciplinary training in connecting cognitive science research to education practices
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Emma Gregory
Visiting Scholar (Research Scientist, General Dynamics Information Technology)
Research Interests: Cognition and its application to educational practices
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Leyla Isik
Assistant Research Professor 7/1/18-6/30/19 (Postdoctoral Associate, MIT)
Research Interests: Computational cognitive neuroscience, vision, social perception, neural networks
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Sang Ah Lee
Visiting Scholar (Assistant Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology)
Research Interests: Developmental and comparative cognition, behavioral neuroscience, spatial navigation, memory, atypical cognitive development and aging
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Soojin Park
Adjunct Assistant Professor (Yonsei University)
Research Interests: Visual scene perception and memory using behavioral and neuroimaging (fMRI) methods
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Jeremy Purcell
Visiting Research Scientist (Faulty Specialist, University of Maryland)
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Robert Wiley
Adjunct Assistant Research Scientist (Lecturer, University of North Carolina Greensboro)
Research Interests: Cognitive science and education, mental representation and learning, neural plasticity, second language acquisition
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Julia Yarmolinskaya
Lecturer (Center for Language Education)
yarmolinskaya@cogsci.jhu.edu Krieger 523
Research Interests: Perception and acquisition of second language phonology
Postdoctoral Fellows
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Cathryn Cortesa
Language & Cognition Lab (Landau Lab)
410-516-6843 ccortes4@jhu.edu Krieger 231E
Research Interests: Early childhood development
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Yuan Tao
Cognitive & Brain Sciences Lab (Rapp Lab)
410-516-5244 ytao13@jhu.edu Krieger 133
Research Interests: Reading and writing, aphasia recovery, statistical machine learning
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Marten van Schijndel
Computational Psycholinguistics Lab
410-516-5029 mvansch2@jhu.edu Krieger 153
Research Interests: Memory and language processing, computational linguistics, neuroscience
Administrative Staff
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Tony Placilla
IT Manager - CogSci IT & Computational Support
To submit an IT Ticket Request, email Brain-IT@jhu.edu410-516-0632 aplacilla@jhu.edu Krieger 173
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Brance Amussen
LAN Administrator III - Secondary CogSci IT Support
To submit an IT Ticket Request, email Brain-IT@jhu.edu410-516-6167 brance@jhu.edu Krieger 338
Research Laboratory Staff
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Brian Leonard
Research Program Coordinator, Computational Psycholinguistics Lab (Dr. Linzen)
410-516-5745 bleona10@jhu.edu Krieger 113
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Jennifer Shea
Senior Research Program Coordinator, Cognitive and Brain Sciences Lab (Dr. Rapp)
410-516-5244 shea@cogsci.jhu.edu
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