People
Primary Faculty
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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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Cantlon, Jessica
Associate Professor
jessica.cantlon@rochester.edu | (Meliora office) (585) 276-5292, (Lab office) (585) 276-5150, (Lab) (585) 276-5099
321 Meliora Hall
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Chapman, Robert
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
rchapman@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8676
246 Meliora Hall
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Davis, Kevin
Lecturer, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Kevin_Davis@URMC.Rochester.edu | (585) 275-7187
303E Meliora Hall

DeAngelis, Greg
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience, Center for Navigation and Communication Sciences
Chair for Brain and Cognitive Sciences
gdeangelis@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8677
310 Meliora Hall
Interests: 3D vision and navigation; Multisensory integration; Neural coding; Decision-making
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Haefner, Ralf
Assistant Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
rhaefne2@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 276-7453
313 Meliora Hall
Website
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
Website
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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Kidd, Celeste
Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science
Ckidd@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 276-7287
308 Meliora
Website
Interests: development; learning; attention; decision-making; computational modeling

Kurumada, Chigusa
Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
ckuruma2@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-7187
304 Meliora Hall
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Lennie, Peter
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science
Robert L. and Mary L. Sproull Dean of the Faculty for College of Arts, Sciences and Engineering
lennie@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5000
317 Lattimore Hall
Interests: functional organization of vision; color vision
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Mahon, Brad
Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Neurosurgery, Neurology, Center for Visual Science, Center for Language Sciences
Scientific Director for Program for Translational Brain Mapping
mahon@rcbi.rochester.edu | (Meliora office) (585) 275-1497, (Lab office) (585) 276-5234, (Lab) (585) 276-5167
317 Meliora Hall
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Miller, Renee
Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Instructional Track
Director for 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
Website
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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Nordeen, Kathy W.
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Neuroscience
knordeen@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8452
117 Meliora Hall
Interests: neural plasticity; learning; memory
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Piantadosi, Steven
Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
spiantad@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8689
307 Meliora Hall
Website
Interests: language learning, language processing, computational modeling
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Raizada, Rajeev
Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Rraizada@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8673
314 Meliora Hall
Website
Interests: Multivoxel pattern analysis of fMRI; Language, semantics; Structure of neural representations; Computational modeling

Rucci, Michele
Professor
rucci.michele@gmail.com | (585) 276-4023, (585) 273-3081
309 Meliora Hall
Website
Interests: Vision and Action

Ruskin, David
Lecturer
druskin@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-1812
420 Meliora Hall
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Tadin, Duje
Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Ophthalmology, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science
Director of Training for Center for Visual Science
Dtadin@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8682
305 Meliora Hall
Website
Interests: neural mechanisms of visual perception

Tanenhaus, Michael K.
Beverly Petterson Bishop and Charles W. Bishop Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics
Director for Center for Language Sciences
mtanenha@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5491
319 Meliora Hall
Interests: psycholinguistics; language and reading comprehension

Thompson, Susan Peirce
Adjunct Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Founder and CEO for Bright Line Eating Solutions, LLC
sthomps4@ur.rochester.edu
Website
Interests: The neuroscience of food addiction; The key factors that drive sustainable weight loss; Willpower