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faculty
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Géraldine Legendre
Professor & Chair
PhD, University of California San Diego
- 410-516-5331 | 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
Colloquium ChairPhD, University of Pennsylvania
- mfbonner@jhu.edu
- Krieger 153 | 107 (lab)
- Group/Lab Website
- 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
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor
Brown Bag Talk CoordinatorPhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- lisik@jhu.edu
- Krieger 151 | 119 (lab)
- Group/Lab Website
- Research Interests: Computational cognitive neuroscience, vision, social perception, neural networks
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Barbara Landau
Professor Dick and Lydia Todd Professor;
Representation Committee ChairPhD, University of Pennsylvania
- 410-516-5255 | 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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Michael McCloskey
Professor
Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies
Homewood IRB Chair
PhD, Princeton University
- 410-516-5325
- michael.mccloskey@jhu.edu
- Krieger 143A | 143 (lab)
- Group/Lab Website
- Research Interests: Reading and writing, visual perception, cognitive neuropsychology, foundations of cognitive science
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Brenda Rapp
Professor
Director of Graduate Admissions
Director of Internships & Community-Based LearningPhD, Johns Hopkins University
- 410-516-5248 | 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 StudiesPhD, University of California Santa Cruz
- 410-516-5330
- kgr@jhu.edu
- Krieger 149 | 105 (lab)
- Group/Lab Website
- Research Interests: Formal semantics, pragmatics, syntax, and the interfaces of these areas, computational semantics, philosophy of language.
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Paul Smolensky
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor
PhD, Indiana University
- 410-516-5331
- 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
Professor
PhD, Johns Hopkins University
- 410-516-5331
- 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 Cambridge
- 410-516-6759
- 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
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lecturers
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Monica Lopez-Gonzalez
Senior Lecturer
- mlopezgonzalez@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: Human creativity and general intelligence, artificial intelligence, and society
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Julia Yarmolinskaya
Senior Lecturer
- yarmolinskaya@cogsci.jhu.edu
- Krieger 133
- Research Interests: Perception and acquisition of second language phonology
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professor emeriti
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Luigi Burzio
Professor Emeritus
- burzio@cogsci.jhu.edu
- Research Interests: Theoretical phonology, morphology, and syntax; romance linguistics
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secondary faculty appointments
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Marina Bedny
Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Research Interests: Brain development and plasticity, cognitive neuroscience, concepts
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Justin Bledin
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
- Research Interests: Logic, philosophy of language (esp. formal semantics), epistemology
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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 Group
- Research 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
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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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Kyrana Tsapkini
Associate Professor, Neurology, School of Medicine
- Research Interests: language--combining cognitive science, psychology, neural science approaches
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Benjamin Van Durme
Associate Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Computer Science
- Research Interests: Natural language processing, specifically semantics; streaming/randomized algorithms
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other appointments
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Jennifer Culbertson
Adjunct Associate 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
Adjunct Associate Research Scientist (Senior Executive Strategic Advisor, 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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Tal Linzen
Visiting Assistant Research Professor (Assistant Professor, NYU)
- Research Interests: Computational models of language acquisition and comprehension, human sentence processing
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Soojin Park
Adjunct Associate Professor (Yonsei University)
- Research Interests: Visual scene perception and memory using behavioral and neuroimaging (fMRI) methods
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Jeremy Purcell
Adjunct Assistant Research Scientist (Faulty Research Scientist, University of Maryland)
- Research Interests: Written language representation and brain injury
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Robert Wiley
Adjunct Assistant Research Scientist (Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Greensboro)
- Research Interests: Cognitive science and education, mental representation and learning, neural plasticity, second language acquisition
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postdoctoral fellows
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Emory Davis
Language and Cognition Lab (Landau Lab) & Spatial Cognition Lab (Shelton Lab)
- edavis70@jhu.edu
- Krieger 231E
- Research Interests: Role of language in cognitive development; understanding of abstract concepts; mental/ attitude verbs
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Alon Hafri
Cognitive Neuroscience and Machine Learning Lab (Bonner Lab) & Perception and Mind Lab (Firestone Lab)
- 410-516-2494
- ahafri1@jhu.edu
- Krieger 107 / Ames 101
- Research Interests: Scene perception, event cognition, psycholinguistics
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Haemy Lee Masson
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (Isik Lab)
- haemy.leemasson@jhu.edu
- Krieger 119
- Research Interests: Social cognition, Computational models of social scene perception, Social impairments in autism
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Caterina Magri
Cognitive Neuroscience and Machine Learning Lab (Bonner Lab)
- 410-516-2494
- cmagri1@jhu.edu
- Krieger 107
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Caitlin Smith
Computational Linguistics Lab (Smolensky Lab)
- 410-516-5208
- csmit372@jhu.edu
- Krieger 245
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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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administrative staff
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Tony Placilla
IT Manager - CogSci IT & Computational Support
To submit an IT Ticket Request, email Brain-IT@jhu.edu
- 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.edu
- brance@jhu.edu
- Krieger 338
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