Associate Faculty
Karen Adolph, Julius Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science. Infant learning and development; motor skill acquisition; perceptual exploration.
Jayeeta Basu, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience (School of Medicine), Psychiatry, and Neural Science. Synaptic and circuit basis of long term memory.
Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neural Science. Neurobiology of language.
Justin Blau, Professor of Biology and Neural Science; Chair, Department of Biology. Genetic analysis of circadian rhythms.
György Buzsáki, Biggs Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience (School of Medicine) and Neural Science. Network functions, memory, sleep and oscillations.
Xinying Cai, Assistant Professor of Neural and Cognitive Science (NYU Shanghai) and Neural Science. Neural basis of economic choice.
Marisa Carrasco, Julius Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science. Visual perception and attention.
David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science. Philosophy 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 Science. Mechanisms of neurotrophin signaling.
Edgar E. Coons, Jr., Professor of Psychology and Neural Science. Brain mechanisms of reward.
Clayton E. Curtis, Professor Of Psychology and Neural Science. Neural basis of spatial cognition.
Jeremy S. Dasen, Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience (School of Medicine) and Neural Science; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Formation and function of circuits in the developing nervous system.
Claude Desplan, Silver Professor; Professor of Biology and Neural Science. Molecular genetic analysis of neural differentiation.
Robert C. Froemke, Professor of Otolaryngology, Physiology and Neuroscience (School of Medicine), and Neural Science.
Davi Geiger, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Neural Science. Computational vision and learning.
Marc H. Gershow, Associate Professor. Perception, decision-making, and learning in neural circuits.
Todd Gureckis, Professor of Psychology and Neural Science. Memory, learning, decision-making in humans.
Laura Gwilliams, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neural Science. Brain mechanisms of language and meaning.
Catherine Hartley, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neural Science. Learning and decision-making across development.
Biyu Jade He, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience (School of Medicine), Neurology, Radiology and Neural Science. Cognitive neuroscience: perception, volition, consciousness.
Brenden Lake, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Data Science, and Neural Science. Computational cognitive modeling; Building machines that learn and think like people.
Michael S. Landy, Professor of Psychology and Neural Science. Computational approaches to vision.
Yann LeCun, Silver Professor; Professor of Computer Science, Data Science and Neural Science. Computational vision and machine learning.
Li Li, Professor of Neural Science and Psychology (NYU Shanghai), and Neural Science. Human 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 Science. Modeling and analysis of neuronal systems.
Dayu Lin, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Physiology and Neuroscience (School of Medicine), and Neural Science. Neural circuits underlying social behaviors.
Grace Lindsay, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Data Science and Neural Science. Models of perception, cognition and action.
Michael Long, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology, Physiology and Neuroscience (School of Medicine), and Neural Science. Cellular and circuit mechanisms underlying the production of learned motor sequences.
Zhong-Lin Lu, Professor of Neural Science and Psychology (NYU Shanghai), and Neural Science. Perception, attention, and perceptual learning; visual disorders; functional imaging of the human brain.
Laurence T. Maloney, Professor of Psychology and Neural Science. Mathematical approaches to psychology and neuroscience.
Marcelo Mattar, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neural Science. Decision making.
David W. McLaughlin, Provost; Professor of Mathematics and Neural Science. Nonlinear waves; mathematical physics; computational neuroscience.
Denis G. Pelli, Professor of Psychology and Neural Science. Object recognition.
Charles S. Peskin, Professor of Mathematics and Neural Science. Mathematical biology.
David Poeppel, Professor of Psychology and Neural Science. Auditory cognition, speech perception and language comprehension.
Aaditya Rangan, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Neural Science. Large-scale scientific modeling and efficient numerical methods.
Margaret Rice, Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience and Neurosurgery (School of Medicine), and Neural Science. Neurochemistry and neurophysiology of the nigrostriatal dopamine pathway.
Dmitry Rinberg, Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience (School of Medicine), and Neural Science. Oflactory information processing in the behaving animal.
Niels Ringstad, Professor of Cell Biology (School of Medicine) and Neural Science. Neuropeptides, biogenic amines and modulated behaviors.
Bernardo Rudy, Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience (School of Medicine), Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care, Pain Medicine, and Neural Science. How neuronal activity regulates behavior.
Michael J. Shelley, Lilian and George Lyttle Professor of Applied Mathematics; Professor of Mathematics and Neural Science. Applied mathematics, modeling, and large-scale computation; Vision and computational neuroscience.
Regina Sullivan, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (School of Medicine) and Neural Science; Research Scientist, Emotional Brain Institute, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research. Neurobiology of infant attachment, emotional learning, sensory system development.
Mario Svirsky, Cohen Professor of Hearing Science, Professor of Otolaryngology (School of Medicine) and Neural Science. Cochlear implants, speech perception, and speech production.
Xing Tian, Associate Professor of Neural and Cognitive Sciences (NYU Shanghai), and Neural Science. Interactions between action and perception in speech, language, memory and cognition.
Daniel Tranchina, Professor of Biology, Mathematics, and Neural Science. Information 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), Neurology, and Neural Science. Mechanisms that link electrical activity to intracellular and intercellular signaling.
Donald A. Wilson, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Physiology (School of Medicine) and Neural Science; Research Scientist, Emotional Brain Institute, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research. Neurobiology of memory and emotion, sensory physiology, olfaction.
Jonathan Winawer, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neural Science. Visual 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 Science. Dynamical systems, statistical physics, computational modeling and theoretical neuroscience.
Affiliate Faculty
Ned Block, Silver Professor; Professor of Philosophy and Psychology. Foundations of consciousness.
Andrew Caplin, Silver Professor; Professor of Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Macroeconomic Theory, The Housing Market, Neurobiology of Decision.
Jerome K. Percus, Professor of Physics and MathematicsMathematical biology.
Andrew Schotter, Professor of Economics. Experimental Economics, Microeconomics, Game Theory, Neurobiology of Decision.
Clinical Faculty
Margarita Kaplow, Clinical Associate Professor in Neural Science. Developmental neurobiology; circuits and behavior; teaching of neuroscience.
Pascal Wallisch, Clinical Associate Professor of Data Science and Neural Science. Visual perception and cognition.
Research Scientists
Kenway Louie, Research Assistant Professor, Glimcher Laboratory.
Najib Majaj, Research Assistant Professor, Movshon 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.