Secondary Faculty

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James Allen

Allen, James F.

  • Professor Emeritus of Computer Science

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Interests: Natural language understanding; Discourse; Knowledge representation; Common-sense reasoning; Planning

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Loisa Bennetto

Bennetto, Loisa

  • Associate Professor of Psychology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Neuroscience

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Interests: Neurocognitive bases of autism; The role of multisensory processing in social-communication difficulties

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Greg Carlson

Carlson, Greg

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  • Professor Emeritus of Linguistics

Interests: Semantic Theory; Psycholinguistics; Discourse

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Fiebelkorn, Ian

  • Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Interests: Cognition; Selective attention; Working memory; Visual processing

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Daniel Gildea

Gildea, Daniel

  • Professor of Computer Science

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Interests: Machine translation; Semantic parsing; Algorithms for natural language processing

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Suzanne Haber

Haber, Suzanne

  • Professor, Pharmacology & Physiology, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Interests: Basal Ganglia; degenerative disease

Krystel Huxlin

Huxlin, Krystel

  • Professor, Ophthalmology, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science
  • James V. Aquavella Professor, Ophthalmology
    Associate Chair for Research, David and Ilene Flaum Eye Institute
    URMC Ombudsperson
    Associate Director, Center for Visual Science

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Interests: Improving vision after damage

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Chris Kanan profile

Kanan, Christopher

  • Associate Professor, Computer Science, Center for Visual Science, Brain & Cognitive Sciences

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Interests: Artificial intelligence; Continual Learning; Vision; Brain-inspired algorithms

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Keane, Brian

  • Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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David Kornack

Kornack, David

  • Associate Professor, Neuroscience

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Interests: Neurogenesis in the Developing and Adult Mammalian Brain

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Feng Vankee Lin

Lin, Feng Vankee

  • Associate Professor, Nursing, Psychiatry, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Neuroscience

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Elizabeth Marvin West

Marvin, Elizabeth West

  • Minehan Family Professor, Eastman School of Music, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Interests: music cognition

William Merigan

Merigan, William

  • Professor, Ophthalmology, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science

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Interests: In Vivo Adaptive Optics Imaging of the Retina

Jonathon Mink

Mink, Jonathan

  • Professor, Neurology, Child Neurology, Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Interests: Physiology of movement; function of the basal ganglia; pathophysiology of movement disorders (Dystonia, Chorea); Tourette syndrome; Batten disease

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Norman-Haignere, Samuel

  • Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Computational Biology, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Biomedical Engineering

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Interests: Auditory neuroscience and perception; Neural encoding of speech and music; Statistical modeling of neural responses; Temporal integration in sensory systems; Human intracranial recordings; Functional MRI; Cross-species comparisons

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Alison Peterman

Peterman, Alison

  • Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
  • Co-Chair, Department of Philosophy

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Interests: History and philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception

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Lizabeth Romanski

Romanski, Lizabeth

  • Associate Professor, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Center for Visual Science
  • Associate Chair, Neurobiology & Anatomy

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Jeff Runner

Runner, Jeffrey T.

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  • Dean of the College in Arts, Sciences and Engineering
  • Professor of Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Interests: Experimental Syntax; Syntactic/Linguistic Theory; Binding Theory; Syntax Processing; Phrase Structure; Syntax/Semantics Interface

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Marc Schieber

Schieber, Marc

  • Professor, Neurology, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science

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Interests: Neural control of hand and finger movements

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David Temperley

Temperley, David

  • Professor of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music

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Susan Peirce Thompson

Thompson, Susan Peirce

  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
  • Founder and CEO, Bright Line Eating Solutions, LLC

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Interests: The neuroscience of food addiction; The key factors that drive sustainable weight loss; Willpower

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White, Aaron

  • Assistant Professor, Linguistics

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Interests: computational psycholinguistics; syntactic and semantic theory; first language acquisition

David Williams

Williams, David

  • Professor, Optics, Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science
  • Allyn Chair, Medical Optics

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Interests: Limits of human vision

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Zhu, Yuhao

  • Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Center for Visual Science
    Bridging Fellow in Brain & Cognitive Sciences

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