People
Primary Faculty
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Biro, Dora
- Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Interests: Animal cognition; Collective behavior; Collective decision-making; Navigation and spatial learning; Tool use; Social learning; Animal culture; Strategic intelligence
Briggs, Farran
- Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science
- farran_briggs@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 276-3736
- 6-8545 URMC
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Chapman, Robert
- Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- rchapman@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8676
- 243 Meliora Hall
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Davis, Kevin
- Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Instructional Track
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Kevin_Davis@URMC.Rochester.edu | (585) 275-7187
- 303E Meliora Hall
DeAngelis, Greg
- George Eastman Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience, Center for Navigation and Communication Sciences
- gdeangelis@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8677
- 321 Meliora Hall
Interests: 3D vision and navigation; Multisensory integration; Neural coding; Decision-making
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Gomez-Ramirez, Manuel
- Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Interests: haptics; somatosensation; selective attention; cross-modal perception; neural coding and neural correlations
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Haefner, Ralf
- Assistant Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
- rhaefne2@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 276-7453
- 313 Meliora Hall
Interests: perceptual decision-making; probabilistic inference; selective attention; neural population encoding and decoding; depth perception/processing of binocular disparity
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Jacobs, Robert A.
- Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, and the Center for Visual Science
- Rjacobs@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-0753
- 306 Meliora Hall
Interests: cognitive and perceptual learning; neural computation
Jaeger, T. Florian
- Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science
- Fjaeger@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 276-3611
- 320 Meliora Hall
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Kurumada, Chigusa
- Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- ckuruma2@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-0760
- 304 Meliora Hall
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Lennie, Peter
- Jay Last Distinguished University Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science
- lennie@rochester.edu
- 316 Meliora Hall
Interests: functional organization of vision; color vision
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Miller, Renee
- Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Instructional Track
- Director, Undergraduate Neuroscience Program
- rmiller3@ur.rochester.edu | (Office) (585) 275-7170, (Lab) (585) 275-7915
- 303F Meliora Hall
Interests: Sex differences in brains and behaviors
Mitchell, Jude
- Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- jmitch27@ur.rochester.edu
- 311 Meliora Hall
Interests: How spatial attention alters statistics of neuronal spiking; Extracellular classification of neuronal types in awake animals; Systems identification models of sensory processing and attention; Network models of spiking neurons and correlations in firing; Human psychophysics in object-based attention, recognition, and perceptual learning
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Piazza, Elise
- Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Interests: communication; auditory perception; music cognition; naturalistic paradigms; two-person neuroscience; learning and development across the lifespan
Poletti, Martina
- Assistant Professor
- martina_poletti@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4801, (585) 273-3081
- 312 Meliora Hall
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Raizada, Rajeev
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Interests: Multivoxel pattern analysis of fMRI; Language, semantics; Structure of neural representations; Computational modeling
Rosengren, Karl
- Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Psychology
- kroseng2@ur.rochester.edu
- 406 Meliora Hall
Interests: cognitive and motor development; interaction of cognition and action in children’s drawing; conceptual development; perception and action; learning
Rucci, Michele
- Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science
- mrucci@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 276-4023, (585) 273-3081
- 309 Meliora Hall
Interests: Vision and Action
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Snyder, Adam
- Assistant Professor
- adam.snyder@rochester.edu | Office (585) 275-8453
- 318 Meliora Hall
Interests: Micro- and macro-scale mechanisms of visual attention
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Tadin, Duje
- Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Ophthalmology, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science
Chair, Brain & Cognitive Sciences - Director of Training, Center for Visual Science
- Dtadin@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8682
- 310 Meliora Hall
Interests: neural mechanisms of visual perception
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Yang, Chung-Lin Martin
- Lecturer
- chung-lin.yang@rochester.edu | (585) 275-1812
- 322 Meliora Hall
Interests: Psycho- and neurolinguistics; speech perception/production; word recognition (both visual and spoken); word learning; evolution of human cognition; second language acquisition