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  • Géraldine Legendre

    Géraldine Legendre

    Professor & Chair

    • legendre@jhu.edu
    • Krieger 249 | 230 (lab)
    • 410-516-6844 (admin) | 410-516-3334 (lab)
    • Group/Lab Website
    • Research Interests: Adult and child syntax; Optimality Theory; models of the interfaces; cross-linguistic variation
    • Education: PhD, University of California San Diego
  • Mick Bonner

    Mick Bonner

    Assistant Professor
    Colloquium Chair

    • 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
    • Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania
  • Leyla Isik

    Leyla Isik (she/her/hers)

    Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor

    • lisik@jhu.edu
    • 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

    Annemarie Kocab (she/her)

    Assistant Research Professor
    Assistant Professor eff. July 2023

    • kocab@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Language emergence, language acquisition, language processing, sign languages
    • Education: PhD, Harvard University
  • Barbara Landau

    Barbara Landau

    Dick and Lydia Todd Professor

    • landau@jhu.edu
    • Krieger 241A | 231 (lab)
    • 410-516-5255 | 410-516-4087 (lab)
    • Group/Lab Website
    • Research Interests: Human knowledge of language and space, typical and atypical development
    • Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania
  • Michael McCloskey

    Michael McCloskey

    Professor
    Homewood IRB Chair

    • michael.mccloskey@jhu.edu
    • 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

    Brenda Rapp

    Professor
    Director of Graduate Admissions

    • brapp1@jhu.edu
    • Krieger 135 | 131A (lab)
    • 410-516-5248 | 410-516-5244 (lab)
    • Group/Lab Website
    • Research Interests: Cognitive neuropsychology, attention, reading and writing
    • Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
  • Kyle Rawlins

    Kyle Rawlins

    Associate Professor
    Director of Graduate Studies

    • 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.
    • Education: PhD, University of California Santa Cruz
  • Paul Smolensky

    Paul Smolensky (he/him)

    Krieger-Eisenhower Professor

    • smolensky@jhu.edu
    • Krieger 241B
    • 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

    Colin Wilson

    Professor
    Director of Undergraduate Studies

    • colin@cogsci.jhu.edu
    • Krieger 247 | 138 (lab)
    • 410-516-6844 (admin)
    • Research Interests: Theoretical and experimental phonology, phonetics, cross-language perception and production, computational modeling
    • Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
  • Alan Yuille

    Alan Yuille

    Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

    • 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
    • Education: PhD, University of Cambridge

  • lecturers

  • Uyen Le

    Uyen Le (she/her/hers)

    Junior Lecturer/Professional TA

    • ule1@jhu.edu
    • Krieger 133
    • Education: MA, Johns Hopkins University
  • Donald Li

    Donald Li

    Visiting Assistant Professor

    • sli97@jhu.edu
    • 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
  • Monica Lopez-Gonzalez

    Monica Lopez-Gonzalez

    Senior Lecturer

    • mlopezgonzalez@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Human-Centered AI, Global AI Ethics and Governance, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Creativity and Adaptive Behavior
    • Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
  • Julia Yarmolinskaya

    Julia Yarmolinskaya

    Senior Lecturer

    • yarmolinskaya@cogsci.jhu.edu
    • Krieger 133
    • Research Interests: Perception and acquisition of second language phonology
    • Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

  • professor emeriti

  • Luigi Burzio

    • burzio@cogsci.jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Theoretical phonology, morphology, and syntax; romance linguistics

  • secondary faculty appointments

  • Marina Bedny

    Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

    • marina.bedny@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Brain development and plasticity, cognitive neuroscience, concepts

  • Justin Bledin

    Assistant Professor, Philosophy

    • jbledin@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Logic, philosophy of language (esp. formal semantics), epistemology

  • Lisa Feigenson

    Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

  • Chaz Firestone

    Assistant Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences

    • chaz@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Perception, attention, visual cognition, foundations of cognitive science

  • Jonathan Flombaum

    Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

  • Steven Gross

    Professor, Philosophy, Foundations of Mind Group

  • Justin Halberda

    Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

  • joint faculty appointments

  • Dana Boatman

    Professor, School of Medicine, Neurology and Neurosurgery

    • dboatma@jhmi.edu
    • Research Interests: Speech perception, auditory processing disorders, auditory neurophysiology

  • John E. Desmond

    Professor, School of Medicine, Neurology and Neurosurgery

    • jdesmon2@jhmi.edu
    • Research Interests: Neuroimaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation methods to investigate neural correlates of behavior

  • Jason Eisner

    Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Computer Science

    • eisner@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Computational linguistics, natural language processing, statistical machine learning

  • Barry Gordon

    Professor, School of Medicine, Neurology and Neurosurgery

    • bgordon@jhmi.edu
    • 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

    • argye@jhmi.edu
    • Research Interests: Language impairments in acute stroke, hemispatial neglect after stroke, relationship between cognitive impairments and regions of hypoperfused brain

  • Kyrana Tsapkini

    Associate Professor, Neurology, School of Medicine

    • tsapkini@jhmi.edu
    • Research Interests: language--combining cognitive science, psychology, neural science approaches

  • Benjamin Van Durme

    Associate Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Computer Science

    • vandurme@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Natural language processing, specifically semantics; streaming/randomized algorithms

  • other appointments

  • Jennifer Culbertson

    Adjunct Associate Professor in the Language Acquisition Lab (Legendre Lab)

    • jennifer.culbertson@ed.ac.uk
    • 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)

    • edavis70@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Role of language in cognitive development; understanding of abstract concepts; mental/ attitude verbs

  • Diana Dima

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

    • ddima@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: How the brain extracts meaning from complex visual inputs

  • Eric Elmoznino

    Visiting Scholar in the Cognitive Neuroscience & Machine Learning Lab

  • Katrina Ferrara

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

    • kferrar3@jhu.edu
    • 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)

    • kristin.gagnier@jhu.edu
    • 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)

    • haemy.leemasson@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Social cognition, Computational models of social scene perception, Social impairments in autism

  • Tal Linzen

    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    • linzen@nyu.edu
    • Research Interests: Computational models of language acquisition and comprehension, human sentence processing

  • Caterina Magri

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

  • Zoe Ovans

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

  • Soojin Park

    Adjunct Associate Professor in the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (McCloskey Lab)

    • soojin.park@yonsei.ac.kr
    • Research Interests: Visual scene perception and memory using behavioral and neuroimaging (fMRI) methods

  • Jeremy Purcell

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

    • jpurcel8@umd.edu
    • Research Interests: Written language representation and brain injury

  • Sartaj Singh

    Visiting Scholar in the Cognitive & Brain Sciences (Rapp) Lab

  • Robert Wiley

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

    • rwwiley@uncg.edu
    • Research Interests: Cognitive science and education, mental representation and learning, neural plasticity, second language acquisition

  • administrative staff

  • Sarah Ciotola

    Sarah Ciotola (she/her/hers)

    Administrative Manager

  • Sue Potterfield

    Budget Analyst

  • Tony Placilla

    IT Manager - Primary CogSci IT Support

  • Brance Amussen

    Sr. Systems Administrator - Secondary CogSci IT Support

  • research laboratory staff

  • Donna Gotsch

    Language Rehabilitation Specialist for the Cognitive & Brain Sciences Lab

  • Elizabeth Im

    Research Coordinator for the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (Isik)

  • Atlas Kazemian

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

  • Vivian Looi

    Research Assistant for the Language & Cognition Lab (Landau)

  • Jennifer Shea

    Sr Research Program Coordinator for the Cognitive & Brain Sciences Lab

  • Yuan Tao

    Assistant Research Scientist in the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Lab

    • ytao13@jhu.edu
    • Krieger 131C
    • Group/Lab Website
    • Research Interests: Reading and writing, aphasia recovery, statistical machine learning, neuroimaging, brain connectivity

  • Zihan Wang

    Research Assistant for the Language & Cognition Lab (Landau)

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