Cognition and Perception Faculty |
Faculty Name |
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Karen Adolph | Cognition & Perception Developmental Center for Neural Science |
How do infants learn new motor skills? |
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Esti Blanco-Elorrieta | Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science |
How do humans process spoken and sign language(s)? |
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Marisa Carrasco | Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science Center for Brain Imaging |
What is attention?
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Andrei Cimpian | Cognition & Perception Developmental
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How do children make sense of the world? |
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Clay Curtis | Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science Center for Brain Imaging |
How does the brain control reflexes to allow voluntary behavior? |
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Moira Dillon | Cognition & Perception Developmental |
How does the physical world in which we live shape the abstract world in which we think? |
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Todd Gureckis | Cognition & Perception | How do we learn through interaction with our environment? |
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Catherine Hartley | Cognition & Perception Developmental Center for Brain Imaging Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Decision Making |
How do learning and decision-making change across development? |
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David Heeger | Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science Center for Brain Imaging Center for Neuroeconomics |
How does the brain account for conscious visual perception and visually-guided behavior? |
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Brenden Lake | Cognition & Perception Center for Data Science Center for Neural Science |
What are the computational ingredients of intelligence? |
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Michael Landy | C & P Program Coordinator Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science Center for Brain Imaging Center for Neuroeconomics |
How does vision determine the size, shape, and boundaries of objects in our environment? |
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Grace Lindsay | Cognition & Perception Center for Data Science Center for Neural Science |
How can artificial neural networks help us understand perception and cognition? |
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Wei Ji Ma | Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science |
How does the brain perceive, remember, and decide under uncertainty? |
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Larry Maloney | Cognition & Perception Social Center for Neural Science Center for Neuroeconomics Center for Experimental Social Science |
How do organisms gather information and act on it? |
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Alec Marantz | Cognition & Perception |
How does the brain accomplish symbolic computation? |
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Marcelo Mattar | Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science Center for Data Science |
How does the brain simulate the past and future to guide our decisions? |
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Brian McElree | Cognition & Perception Social |
How do people understand sentences within the limits of working memory? |
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Sebastian Michelmann | Cognition & Perception Center for Brain Imaging |
How do fast neural processes interact to form and retrieve information-rich memories? |
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Denis Pelli | Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science Center for Brain Imaging |
How do we recognize familiar objects like words and faces? |
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David Poeppel | Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science |
What kind of cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms form the basis for speech perception and auditory cognition? |
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Liina Pylkkänen | Cognition & Perception Linguistics Center for Neuromagnetism |
What are the neural bases of language? |
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Bob Rehder | Department Chair Cognition & Perception |
How does perceived cause and effect determine categories? |
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Marjorie Rhodes | Associate Chair Cognition & Perception Developmental Social |
How do concepts develop? |
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Pablo Ripolles | Cognition & Perception |
How do music, reward and memory interact? |
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Jonathan Winawer | Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science |
How does biology support perception, and how does perception support cognition? |
Abu Dhabi Faculty |
Faculty Name |
Affiliations |
Research Question |
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Diogo Almeida | NYU Abu Dhabi Cognition & Perception |
How does the language system communicate with our perceptual and memory systems? |
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Olivia Cheung | NYU Abu Dhabi Cognition & Perception |
How does the brain perceive the visual world, and how is perception influenced by experience and learning? |
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Daryl Fougnie | NYU Abu Dhabi Cognition & Perception |
What are the limits in what we can perceive, pay attention to, and remember about the world? |
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David Melcher | NYU Abu Dhabi Cognition & Perception |
How do perception and cognition unfold over space and time, and how is this linked to the spatiotemporal properties of neural activity? |
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Bas Rokers | NYU Abu Dhabi Cognition & Perception |
How does 2D sensation give rise to 3D perception? |
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Kartik Sreenivasan | NYU Abu Dhabi Cognition & Perception |
What are the neurobiological constraints that determine our cognitive abilities? |
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Robert Volcic | NYU Abu Dhabi Cognition & Perception |
How do vision, touch and other senses shape perception and behavior? |
Associated Faculty |
Faculty Name |
Affiliations |
Research Question |
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Dora Angelaki | Center for Neural Science Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Cognition & Perception |
How do multisensory signals flow across the brain to generate perception and cognition during naturalistic tasks? |
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Ned Block | Philosophy Cognition & Perception |
How can consciousness be explained in terms of the brain? |
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Paul Glimcher | Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception Center for Brain Imaging Center for Neuroeconomics |
My research on planning and action in the oculomotor system focusses on two structures that seem to pass these movement-related decisions to the superior colliculus: the substantia nigra and the parietal cortex. |
Michael Hawken | Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception |
My interest is in the role neurons play in visual perception and visuomotor behavior. | |
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Lynne Kiorpes | Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception |
My current research efforts include studies of the development of visual function in young macaque monkeys under conditions of normal and abnormal visual experience. |
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Joe LeDoux | Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception |
My current research is concerned with the identification of the neural systems and cellular mechanisms used by the brain to assign emotional significance to sensory stimuli. |
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Tony Movshon | Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception Center for Brain Imaging |
I am interested in the way the brain encodes and decodes visual information, and in the mechanisms that put that information to use in the control of behavior. |
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Dan Sanes | Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception |
How does auditory experience influence the developing nervous system, thereby shaping adult perceptual skills? |
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Mal Semple | Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception |
My research currently embraces studies at the auditory brainstem, midbrain, and cortex. |
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Eero Simoncelli | Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception |
My research addresses a variety of basic issues in the analysis and representation of visual imagery. |
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Wendy Suzuki | Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception |
Organization of memory in the medial temporal lobe and the effects of exercise on learning, memory and cognition |
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Pascal Wallisch | Cognition & Perception Center for Data Science |
How do people construct the subjective reality they inhabit? |
Affiliated Faculty |
Faculty Name |
Affiliations |
Research Question |
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Sudha Arunachalam | Communicative Sciences & Disorders Cognition & Perception |
How do children learn to understand language? |
Emily Balcetis | Social Cognition & Perception |
How do motivations influence perception? | |
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Adam Buchwald | Steinhardt's Dept. of Communicative Sciences and Disorders Cognition & Perception |
What cognitive processes underlie the production and perception of spoken and written language? |
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F. Xavier Castellanos | NYU Child Study Center Center for Brain Imaging Cognition & Perception |
Conditions and Treatments: disruptive behavior disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder |
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SueYeon Chung | Center for Neural Science Flatiron Institute Center for Data Science |
What is the neural basis of perception and cognition? How are the structures of neural activities related to the encoded information underlying perceptual and cognitive tasks? |
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Ailís Cournane | Linguistics Cognition & Perception |
How do children learn which meanings are expressed by which forms in language? |
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Lisa Davidson | Linguistics Cognition & Perception |
How do people learn to produce and perceive sounds that are not found in their native language? |
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Courtney Filippi | Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Cognition & Perception |
What brain mechanisms support social-emotional development in infancy? |
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Adeen Flinker | Department of Neurology Cognition & Perception |
What are the cortical network dynamics that allow us to fluently perceive and produce speech ? |
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Peter Gollwitzer | Social Cognition & Perception |
How do goals and plans affect cognition and behavior? |
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Biyu He | Department of Neurology Neuroscience and Physiology Radiology Cognition & Perception |
How does the brain give rise to perceptual awareness? |
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James Higham | Department of Anthropology Cognition & Perception |
I study evolutionary sexual selection, and how this leads to adaptation and diversity in primate reproduction, communication and perception. |
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Eric S Jackson | Communicative Sciences and Disorders Cognition & Perception |
Why do people who stutter stutter sometimes but not other times? |
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Roozbeh Kiani | Center for Neural Science Neuroeconomics Cognition & Perception |
How does the brain combine different sources of evidence to render a decision and guide behavior in an uncertain environment? |
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Susannah Levi | Steinhardt's Dept. of Communicative Sciences and Disorders Cognition & Perception |
How do people learn to deal with variability in the speech signal? |
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Tal Linzen | Department of Linguistics Cognition & Perception |
How do people learn and understand language? How can we create artificial systems that learn language as humans do? And what can those artificial systems teach us about human language? |
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Zhong-Lin Lu | NYU Shanghai Neural Science Cognition & Perception |
How does the brain compute for perception and cognition? |
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Michael Long | Neuroscience and Physiology Cognition & Perception |
How are communicative behaviors represented in neural circuits? |
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Mohammed Milad | Department of Psychiatry Cognition & Perception |
How does the brain learn not to fear? |
Amy K Roy | NYU Child Study Center Cognition & Perception |
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Daniel Schechter | Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Health Child Study Center Cognition & Perception |
How does maternal interpersonal violence exposure and related psychopathology affect the parent-child relationship during formative development of emotion regulation? What factors promote versus hinder intergenerational transmission of violence and victimization and the development of related psychopathology? |
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Bob Shapley | Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception Center for Brain Imaging |
My colleagues and I are interested in the neural mechanisms that lead to the visual perception of objects and patterns. |
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Cathy Tamis-LeMonda | Steinhardt Applied Psychology Cognition & Perception |
How do infants' interactions support learning? |
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Thomas Thesen | Medical Center's Department of Neurology Cognition & Perception |
How does the brain integrate information from the different senses and process language? |
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Yaacov Trope | Social Cognition & Perception |
How does distance affect self control? |
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Jay Van Bavel | Social Cognition & Perception |
How do our identities, values,and motivations change our perceptions and evaluations of others? Hello World |
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Si On Yoon | Communicative Sciences and Disorders Cognition & Perception | How do interlocutors use social-pragmatic cues during language processing, and how does this ability develop and change across the lifespan? How does memory interact with language in conversation? |
Emeritus Faculty |
Faculty Name |
Affiliations |
Research Question |
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Doris Aaronson | Cognition & Perception | My research deals with the role of linguistic factors in reading, memory, and problem solving. |
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Ted Coons | Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science |
How does music move us? |
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Murray Glanzer | Cognition & Perception | Likelihood ratios and decision theory. |
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Lloyd Kaufman | Cognition & Perception | Over a very long career, my work ranged from applied problems (such as designing and evaluating flight instruments and the role of vision in midair collisions of aircraft) to a wide range of basic problems in perception. |
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Richard Koppenaal | Cognition & Perception | Memory retrieval? |
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Gary Marcus | Cognition & Perception | How does a child learn to talk? Why is that humans can acquire language when no other species can? |
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Jim Matthews | Cognition & Perception | Togetherness in rodents may be more social than sexual. |
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Greg Murphy | Cognition & Perception | My work has focused on the psychology of concepts, with a special interest in how concepts relate to word meaning and language comprehension. |
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Paul Vitz | Cognition & Perception | Religion, especially Christianity, and psychology; personality theory; moral development; psychology and art. |