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Melinda Adelman

Adelman, Melinda

  • Undergraduate Programs Administrator
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Ahuja, Himanshu

  • Graduate Student
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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Alvernaz, Sam

  • Graduate Student
  • Advisor: Haefner
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Anthony, Mia

  • Graduate Student
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Anzai, Akiyuki

  • Sr. Research Associate

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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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Biro, Dora

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

  • Graduate Student

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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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Cassano, Riesa

  • Graduate Student

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Cavanah, Paul

  • Graduate Student
Robert Chapman

Chapman, Robert

  • Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Cherian, Rithwik John

  • Graduate Student
Ashley Clark

Clark, Ashley

  • Postdoctoral Fellow

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Corser, Kathy

  • Graduate Programs Administrator
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Cox, Michele

  • Postdoctoral Fellow

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Dambra, Christine

  • Accounting Assistant
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
    Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
    Professor of Neuroscience
    Professor of Biomedical Engineering
    Professor in the Center for Visual Science

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

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Dekdebrun, Chad

  • Research Specialist
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Dong, Yelin

  • Graduate Student
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Duhain, Michael

  • Graduate Student

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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

Chris Freemesser

Freemesser, Chris

  • Systems Administrator

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Gardner, Margaret

  • Laboratory Technician
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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Gillis, Jennifer

  • Supervisor, Academic Finance and Operations
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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Goswami, Sabyasachi

  • Graduate Student
Dina Graf

Graf, Dina

  • Research Specialist
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Guzhang, Yue

  • Graduate Student

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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

Ralf Haefner

Haefner, Ralf

  • Associate Professor

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

Ruoyang Hu

Hu, Ruoyang

  • Graduate Student
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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Ignaco, Alyssa

  • Graduate Student
  • Advisor: Gomez-Ramirez
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Iordan, Marius Cătălin

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  • Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience

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Interests: visual and semantic cognition; learning; attention; neuroplasticity; real-time fMRI; neurofeedback; machine learning; neural networks; data science

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Isenstein, Emily

  • Graduate Student
James Ison

Ison, James R.

  • Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Otolaryngology, and Neurobiology & Anatomy

Interests: audition; sensory reflexes; sensory function; sensori-motor control

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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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Jenks, Samantha

  • Graduate Student
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Jolly, Paul

  • Graduate Student
Dennis Jung

Jung, Dennis

  • Graduate Student

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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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Kapisthalam, Sanjana

  • Graduate Student

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Keane, Brian

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

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Carol Kellogg

Kellogg, Carol K.

  • Professor Emeritus, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Interests: neuropharmacology; development; hormones; behavior; GABA

David Kornack

Kornack, David

  • Associate Professor, Neuroscience

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Interests: Neurogenesis in the Developing and Adult Mammalian Brain

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Krishnamachari Srinivasan, Prahalad

  • Postdoctoral Fellow
Chigusa Kurumada

Kurumada, Chigusa

  • Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Lengyel, Gabor

  • Postdoctoral Fellow
Peter Lennie

Lennie, Peter

  • Jay Last Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science

Interests: functional organization of vision; color vision

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Lerner, Vitaly

  • Postdoctoral Fellow
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Li, Yuanhao (Howard)

  • Graduate Student

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Li, Chen

  • Graduate Student

Interests: visual attention; tactile perception; distraction suppression; neuromodulation

Feng Vankee Lin

Lin, Feng Vankee

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

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Lin, Ruitao

  • Graduate Student
Shizhao Liu

Liu, Shizhao

  • Graduate Student
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Luo, Yumeng

  • Graduate Student
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Lyons, Megan

  • Laboratory Technician

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Walt Makous

Makous, Walter

  • Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science
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Maldoddi, Rakesh

  • Graduate Student
Elizabeth Marvin West

Marvin, Elizabeth West

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

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Interests: music cognition

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Mathiaparanam, Olympia

  • Graduate Student
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McDonald, Tanique

  • Lab Technician
Michael Melnick

Melnick, Michael

  • Project Specialist
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

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

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

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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Mizobuchi, Soma

  • Graduate Student
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Mohan, Oviya

  • Graduate Student

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More, Neya

  • Laboratory Technician
Emily Murphy

Murphy, Emily

  • Research Specialist

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Nagarajan, Krishnaveni

  • Graduate Student
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Neverodska, Alina

  • Laboratory Technician
Kathy Nordeen

Nordeen, Kathy W.

  • Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Neuroscience

Interests: neural plasticity; learning; memory

Ernie Nordeen

Nordeen, Ernie

  • Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Neurobiology and Anatomy

Interests: neurobiology of vocal learning and plasticity

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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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Tania Pasternak

Pasternak, Tatiana

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

Sara Peterson

Peterson, Sara

  • Web Coordinator
Elise Piazza

Piazza, Elise

  • Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience

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

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Pletenev, Anton

  • Graduate Student
Martina Poletti

Poletti, Martina

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

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Powers, Daniel

  • Laboratory Technician

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Rabah, Brandon

  • Laboratory Technician
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Ramsammy, Brent

  • Human Subjects Research Coordinator
Lizabeth Romanski

Romanski, Lizabeth

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

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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

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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Bikash Sahoo

Sahoo, Bikash Chandra

  • Graduate Student
  • B.Tech.
    M.Tech.
  • Advisor: Snyder
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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Schlegel, Cynthia

  • Human Subjects Research Coordinator
Michele Schultz

Schultz, Michele

  • Administrative Assistant, BCS and CVS / Assistant to BCS Chairperson
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Shaw, Luke

  • Graduate Student
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Smith, Calli

  • Graduate Student
Adam Snyder

Snyder, Adam

  • Assistant Professor

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

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Stearns, Zoe

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  • Graduate Student

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Sun, Claire

  • Graduate Student

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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

Michael Tanenhaus

Tanenhaus, Michael K.

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

Interests: psycholinguistics; language and reading comprehension

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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VanDongen, Gregory

  • Laboratory Technician

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Wang, Jie

  • Postdoctoral Fellow
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White, Aaron

  • Assistant Professor, Linguistics

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

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Wiler, Emily

  • Laboratory Technician
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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Wu, Ruei-Jr

  • Scientist

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Martin Yang

Yang, Chung-Lin Martin

  • Assistant Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Instructional Track

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

Bin Yang

Yang, Bin

  • Graduate Student

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Zeng, Ruby

  • Graduate Student
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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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