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Dora Biro profile

Biro, Dora

  • Beverly Petterson Bishop and Charles W. Bishop Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Interests: Animal cognition; Collective behavior; Collective decision-making; Navigation and spatial learning; Tool use; Social learning; Animal culture; Strategic intelligence

Farran Briggs

Briggs, Farran

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

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Robert Chapman

Chapman, Robert

  • Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Kevin Davis

Davis, Kevin

  • Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Instructional Track
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Greg DeAngelis

DeAngelis, Greg

  • George Eastman Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science

Interests: 3D vision and navigation; Multisensory integration; Neural coding; Decision-making

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Manuel Gomez-Ramirez

Gomez-Ramirez, Manuel

  • Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Interests: haptics; somatosensation; selective attention; cross-modal perception; neural coding and neural correlations

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Ralf Haefner

Haefner, Ralf

  • Assistant Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences

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Interests: perceptual decision-making; probabilistic inference; selective attention; neural population encoding and decoding; depth perception/processing of binocular disparity

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Robert Jacobs

Jacobs, Robert A.

  • Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, and the Center for Visual Science

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Interests: cognitive and perceptual learning; neural computation

T. Florian Jaeger

Jaeger, T. Florian

  • Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science

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Chigusa Kurumada

Kurumada, Chigusa

  • Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Renee Miller

Miller, Renee

  • Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Instructional Track
  • Director, Undergraduate Neuroscience Program
    Co-Director, Rochester Early Medical Scholars

Interests: Sex differences in brains and behaviors

Jude Mitchell

Mitchell, Jude

  • Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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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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Elise Piazza

Piazza, Elise

  • Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Interests: communication; auditory perception; music cognition; naturalistic paradigms; two-person neuroscience; learning and development across the lifespan

Martina Poletti

Poletti, Martina

  • Assistant Professor

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Karl Rosengren

Rosengren, Karl

  • Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Psychology

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Interests: cognitive and motor development; interaction of cognition and action in children’s drawing; conceptual development; perception and action; learning

Michele Rucci

Rucci, Michele

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

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Interests: Vision and Action

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Adam Snyder

Snyder, Adam

  • Assistant Professor

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Interests: Micro- and macro-scale mechanisms of visual attention

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Duje Tadin

Tadin, Duje

  • Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Ophthalmology, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science
    Chair, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
  • Director of Training, Center for Visual Science

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Interests: neural mechanisms of visual perception

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Martin Yang

Yang, Chung-Lin Martin

  • Lecturer

Interests: Psycho- and neurolinguistics; speech perception/production; word recognition (both visual and spoken); word learning; evolution of human cognition; second language acquisition