Associate Faculty
Karen Adolph, Professor of Psychology and Neural ScienceInfant learning and development; motor skill acquisition; perceptual exploration.
Jayeeta Basu, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience (School of Medicine), and Neural Science
Justin Blau, Professor of Biology and Neural ScienceGenetic analysis of circadian rhythms.
György Buzsáki, Biggs Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience (School of Medicine) and Neural ScienceNetwork functions, memory, sleep and oscillations.
Xinying Cai, Assistant Professor of Neural and Cognitive Science (NYU Shanghai), and Neural ScienceNeural basis of economic choice.
Marisa Carrasco, Professor of Psychology and Neural ScienceVisual perception and attention.
David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy and Neural SciencePhilosophy of mind and language, metaphysics and epistemology, and the foundations of cognitive science.
Moses Chao, Professor of Cell Biology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Psychiatry (School of Medicine) and Neural ScienceMechanisms of neurotrophin signaling.
Edgar E. Coons, Jr., Professor of Psychology and Neural ScienceBrain mechanisms of reward.
Clayton E. Curtis, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neural ScienceNeural basis of spatial cognition.
Jeremy S. Dasen, Associate Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience (School of Medicine), and Neural Science; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteFormation and function of circuits in the developing nervous system.
Claude Desplan, Silver Professor; Professor of Biology and Neural ScienceMolecular genetic analysis of neural differentiation.
Robert C. Froemke, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology, Physiology and Neuroscience (School of Medicine), and Neural Science
Davi Geiger, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Neural ScienceComputational vision and learning.
Marc H. Gershow, Assistant Professor of Physics and Neural SciencePerception, decision-making, and learning in neural circuits.
Todd Gureckis, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neural ScienceMemory, learning, decision-making in humans.
Catherine Hartley, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neural ScienceLearning and decision-making across development.
Biyu Jade He, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Physiology and Neuroscience (School of Medicine), and Neural ScienceCognitive neuroscience: perception, volition, consciousness.
Brenden Lake, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Data Science, and Neural ScienceComputational cognitive modeling; Building machines that learn and think like people.
Michael S. Landy, Professor of Psychology and Neural ScienceComputational approaches to vision.
Yann LeCun, Silver Professor; Professor of Computer Science and Neural ScienceComputational vision and machine learning.
Li Li, Professor of Neural Science and Psychology (NYU Shanghai), and Neural ScienceHuman perception and control of self-motion, visuomotor control, eye-hand coordination and virtual reality.
Sukbin Lim, Assistant Professor of Neural Science (NYU Shanghai), and Neural ScienceModeling and analysis of neuronal systems.
Dayu Lin, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Physiology and Neuroscience (School of Medicine), and Neural ScienceNeural circuits underlying social behaviors.
Michael Long, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology, Physiology and Neuroscience (School of Medicine), and Neural ScienceCellular and circuit mechanisms underlying the production of learned motor sequences.
Zhong-Lin Lu, Professor of Neural Science and Psychology (NYU Shanghai), and Neural SciencePerception, attention, and perceptual learning; visual disorders; functional imaging of the human brain.
Laurence T. Maloney, Professor of Psychology and Neural ScienceMathematical approaches to psychology and neuroscience.
David W. McLaughlin, Provost; Professor of Mathematics and Neural ScienceNonlinear waves; mathematical physics; computational neuroscience.
Denis G. Pelli, Professor of Psychology and Neural Science
Object recognition.
Charles S. Peskin, Professor of Mathematics and Neural ScienceMathematical biology.
David Poeppel, Professor of Psychology and Neural ScienceAuditory cognition, speech perception and language comprehension.
Aaditya Rangan, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Neural ScienceLarge-scale scientific modeling and efficient numerical methods.
Margaret Rice, Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience and Neurosurgery (School of Medicine), and Neural ScienceNeurochemistry and neurophysiology of the nigrostriatal dopamine pathway.
Dmitry Rinberg, Associate Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience (School of Medicine), and Neural ScienceOflactory information processing in the behaving animal.
Niels Ringstad, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology (School of Medicine) and Neural ScienceNeuropeptides, biogenic amines and modulated behaviors.
Bernardo Rudy, Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience (School of Medicine), and Neural ScienceHow neuronal activity regulates behavior.
Michael J. Shelley, Lilian and George Lyttle Professor of Applied Mathematics; Professor of Mathematics and Neural ScienceApplied mathematics, modeling, and large-scale computation; Vision and computational neuroscience.
Regina Sullivan, Research Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (School of Medicine) and Neural Science; Research Scientist, Emotional Brain Institute, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric ResearchNeurobiology of infant attachment, emotional learning, sensory system development.
Mario Svirsky, Cohen Professor of Hearing Science, Professor of Otolaryngology (School of Medicine) and Neural ScienceCochlear implants, speech perception, and speech production.
Xing Tian, Assistant Professor of Neural and Cognitive Sciences (NYU Shanghai), and Neural ScienceMicrocircuits underlying state-dependent regulation of information processing.
Daniel Tranchina, Professor of Biology, Mathematics, and Neural ScienceInformation processing in the retina.
Nicolas X. Tritsch, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience (School of Medicine), and Neural Science
Selection, execution and reinforcement of motor actions in the Basal Ganglia.
Richard W. Tsien, Druckenmiller Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience (School of Medicine), and Neural ScienceMechanisms that link electrical activity to intracellular and intercellular signaling.
Donald A. Wilson, Research Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (School of Medicine) and Neural Science; Research Scientist, Emotional Brain Institute, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric ResearchNeurobiology of memory and emotion, sensory physiology, olfaction.
Jonathan Winawer, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neural ScienceVisual perception and encoding of neural signals in the human visual pathways.
Lai-Sang Young, Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science; Professor of Mathematics and Neural ScienceDynamical systems, statistical physics, computational modeling and theoretical neuroscience.
Affiliate Faculty
Ned Block, Silver Professor; Professor of Philosophy and PsychologyFoundations of consciousness.
Andrew Caplin, Silver Professor; Professor of EconomicsMicroeconomic Theory, Macroeconomic Theory, The Housing Market, Neurobiology of Decision.
Jerome K. Percus, Professor of Physics and MathematicsMathematical biology.
Andrew Schotter, Professor of EconomicsExperimental Economics, Microeconomics, Game Theory, Neurobiology of Decision.
Clinical Faculty
Margarita Kaplow, Clinical Associate Professor in Neural ScienceDevelopmental neurobiology; circuits and behavior; teaching of neuroscience.
Pascal Wallisch, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neural ScienceVisual perception and cognition.
Research Scientists
Kenway Louie, Research Assistant Professor, Glimcher Laboratory
Najib Majaj, Research Assistant Professor, Movshon Laboratory
Eli Merriam, Research Assistant Professor, Heeger Laboratory
Valerie Nunez, Research Scientist, Shapley Laboratory
Chao Tang, Research Scientist, Kiorpes Laboratory
Visiting Scientists
Anne Churchland, Cold Spring Harbor, Movshon Laboratory
Nathaniel Daw, Princeton University, Movshon Laboratory
Valerie Doyere, University of Paris VI, LeDoux Laboratory
Giuseppe Fedele, Mt Sinai School of Medicine, Alberini Laboratory
James Gordon, Hunter College of CUNY, Shapley Laboratory
Fang Han, Donghua University, Rinzel Laboratory
Wei-Jye Lin, Mt Sinai School of Medicine, Alberini Laboratory
Chiara Mariottini, Mt Sinai School of Medicine, Alberini Laboratory
Sharareh Noorbaloochi, Alberini Laboratory
Andrew Varga, Mt Sinai School of Medicine, Alberini Laboratory
Beverly Wright, Northwestern University, Alberini Laboratory
Dajun Xing, Beijing Normal University, Alberini Laboratory