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Cognition and Perception Faculty | Abu Dhabi Faculty | Associated Faculty | Affiliated Faculty | Emeritus Faculty

Cognition and Perception Faculty    

Faculty Name     

Affiliations

Research question

Photo of Karen Adolph Karen Adolph Cognition & Perception
Developmental
Center for Neural Science
How do infants learn new motor skills?
Photo of Marisa Carrasco Marisa Carrasco Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging
What is attention?
Photo of Andrei Cimpian Andrei Cimpian Cognition & Perception
Developmental

 

How do children make sense of the world?
Photo of Clayton Curtis Clay Curtis Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging
How does the brain control reflexes to allow voluntary behavior?
Photo of Moira Dillon Moira Dillon Cognition & Perception
Developmental
How does the physical world in which we live shape the abstract world in which we think?
Photo of Todd Gureckis Todd Gureckis Cognition & Perception How do we learn through interaction with our environment?
Photo of Cathrine Hartley 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?
Photo of David Heeger 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?
Photo fo Brendan Lake Brenden Lake Cognition & Perception
Center for Data Science
Center for Neural Science
What are the computational ingredients of intelligence?
Photo of Michael Landy 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?
Photo of Weiji Ma Wei Ji Ma Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
How does the brain perceive, remember, and decide under uncertainty?
Photo of Larry Maloney 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?
Photo of Alec Marantz Alec Marantz

Cognition & Perception
Linguistics
Center for Neuromagnetism

How does the brain accomplish symbolic computation?
Photo of Brian McElree Brian McElree Cognition & Perception
Social
How do people understand sentences within the limits of working memory?
Photo of Denis Pelli Denis Pelli Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging
How do we recognize familiar objects like words and faces?
Photo of David Poeppel David Poeppel Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
What kind of cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms form the basis for speech perception and auditory cognition?
Photo of Liina Pylkkanen Liina Pylkkänen Cognition & Perception
Linguistics
Center for Neuromagnetism
What are the neural bases of language?
Photo of Bob Rehder Bob Rehder Department Chair
Cognition & Perception
How does perceived cause and effect determine categories?
Photo of Marjorie Rhodes Marjorie Rhodes Associate Chair
Cognition & Perception
Developmental
Social
How do concepts develop?
Photo of Pablo Ripolles Pablo Ripolles
Cognition & Perception

How do music, reward and memory interact?
Photo of Jonathan Winawer 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

Photo of of Diogo Almeida Diogo Almeida NYU Abu Dhabi
Cognition & Perception
How does the language system communicate with our perceptual and memory systems?
Photo of Olivia Cheung Olivia Cheung NYU Abu Dhabi
Cognition & Perception
How does the brain perceive the visual world, and how is perception influenced by experience and learning?
Photo of Daryl Fougnie Daryl Fougnie NYU Abu Dhabi
Cognition & Perception
What are the limits in what we can perceive, pay attention to, and remember about the world?
Photo of David Melcher 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?
Photo of Bas Rokers Bas Rokers NYU Abu Dhabi
Cognition & Perception
How does 2D sensation give rise to 3D perception?
Photo of Kartik Sreenivasan Kartik Sreenivasan NYU Abu Dhabi
Cognition & Perception
What are the neurobiological constraints that determine our cognitive abilities?
Photo of Robert Volcic Robert Volcic NYU Abu Dhabi
Cognition & Perception
How do vision, touch and other senses shape perception and behavior?

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Faculty Name

Affiliations

Research Question

Photo of Dora Angelaki 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?
Photo of Ned Block Ned Block Philosophy
Cognition & Perception
How can consciousness be explained in terms of the brain?
Photo of Paul Glimcher 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.
Photo of Michael Hawken Michael Hawken Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception
My interest is in the role neurons play in visual perception and visuomotor behavior.
Photo of Lynne Kiorpes 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.
Photo of Joe LeDoux 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.
Photo of Tony Movshon 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.
Photo of Dan Sanes Dan Sanes Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception
How does auditory experience influence the developing nervous system, thereby shaping adult perceptual skills?
Photo of Mal Semple Mal Semple Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception
My research currently embraces studies at the auditory brainstem, midbrain, and cortex.
Photo of Eero Simoncelli Eero Simoncelli Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception
My research addresses a variety of basic issues in the analysis and representation of visual imagery.
Photo of Wendy Suzuki 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
Photo of Wendy Suzuki Pascal Wallisch Cognition & Perception
Center for Data Science

How do people construct the subjective reality they inhabit?
       

Affiliated Faculty

Faculty Name

Affiliations

Research Question

Photo of Sudha Arunachalam Sudha Arunachalam Communicative Sciences & Disorders
Cognition & Perception
How do children learn to understand language?
Photo of Emily Balcetis Emily Balcetis Social
Cognition & Perception
How do motivations influence perception?
Photo of Adam Buchwald 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?
Photo of Xavier Castellanos F. Xavier Castellanos NYU Child Study Center
Center for Brain Imaging
Cognition & Perception
Conditions and Treatments: disruptive behavior disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Photo of SueYeon Chung 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?
Photo of Ailís Cournane
Ailís Cournane Linguistics
Cognition & Perception
How do children learn which meanings are expressed by which forms in language?
Photo of Lisa Davidson
Lisa Davidson Linguistics
Cognition & Perception
How do people learn to produce and perceive sounds that are not found in their native language?
Photo of Adeen Flinker Adeen Flinker Department of Neurology
Cognition & Perception
What are the cortical network dynamics that allow us to fluently perceive and produce speech ?
Photo of Peter Gollwitzer Peter Gollwitzer Social
Cognition & Perception
How do goals and plans affect cognition and behavior?
Photo of Biyu He Biyu He Department of Neurology
Neuroscience and Physiology
Radiology
Cognition & Perception
How does the brain give rise to perceptual awareness?
Photo of James Higham
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.
Photo of Eric Jackson
Eric S Jackson Communicative Sciences and Disorders
Cognition & Perception
Why do people who stutter stutter sometimes but not other times?
Photo of Roozbeh Kiani 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?
Susannah V. Levi Susannah Levi Steinhardt's Dept. of Communicative Sciences and Disorders
Cognition & Perception
How do people learn to deal with variability in the speech signal?
Zhong-Lin Lu Zhong-Lin Lu NYU Shanghai Neural Science
Cognition & Perception
How does the brain compute for perception and cognition?
Mohammed Milad Mohammed Milad Department of Psychiatry
Cognition & Perception
How does the brain learn not to fear?
  Amy K Roy NYU Child Study Center
Cognition & Perception
 
Photo of Daniel Schecter 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?
Photo of Bob Shapley 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.
Photo of Cathy Tamis-LeMonda
Cathy Tamis-LeMonda Steinhardt Applied Psychology
Cognition & Perception
How do infants' interactions support learning?
Photo of Thomas Thesen Thomas Thesen Medical Center's Department of Neurology
Cognition & Perception
How does the brain integrate information from the different senses and process language?
Photo of Yaacov Trope Yaacov Trope Social
Cognition & Perception
How does distance affect self control?
Photo of Jay Van Bavel Jay Van Bavel Social
Cognition & Perception
How do our identities, values,and motivations change our perceptions and evaluations of others? Hello World

Emeritus Faculty

Faculty Name

Affiliations

Research Question

Photo of Doris Aaronson Doris Aaronson Cognition & Perception My research deals with the role of linguistic factors in reading, memory, and problem solving.
Photo of Ted Coons Ted Coons Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
How does music move us?
Photo of Murray Glanzer Murray Glanzer Cognition & Perception Likelihood ratios and decision theory.
Photo of Lloyd Kaufman 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.
Photo of Richard Koppenaal Richard Koppenaal Cognition & Perception Memory retrieval?
Photo of Gary Marcus Gary Marcus Cognition & Perception How does a child learn to talk? Why is that humans can acquire language when no other species can?
Photo of Jim Matthews Jim Matthews Cognition & Perception Togetherness in rodents may be more social than sexual.
Photo of Greg Murphy 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.
Photo of Paul Vitz Paul Vitz Cognition & Perception Religion, especially Christianity, and psychology; personality theory; moral development; psychology and art.

 

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