Cognition & Perception Faculty

Cognition and Perception Faculty	Faculty Name	Affiliations	Research question
	Karen Adolph	Cognition & Perception Developmental Center for Neural Science	How do infants learn new motor skills?
	Esti Blanco-Elorrieta	Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science	How do humans process spoken and sign language(s)?
	Marisa Carrasco	Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science Center for Brain Imaging	What is attention?
	Andrei Cimpian	Cognition & Perception Developmental	How do children make sense of the world?
	Clay Curtis	Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science Center for Brain Imaging	How does the brain control reflexes to allow voluntary behavior?
	Moira Dillon	Cognition & Perception Developmental	How does the physical world in which we live shape the abstract world in which we think?
	Todd Gureckis	Cognition & Perception	How do we learn through interaction with our environment?
	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?
	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?
	Brenden Lake	Cognition & Perception Center for Data Science Center for Neural Science	What are the computational ingredients of intelligence?
	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?
	Grace Lindsay	Cognition & Perception Center for Data Science Center for Neural Science	How can artificial neural networks help us understand perception and cognition?
	Wei Ji Ma	Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science	How does the brain perceive, remember, and decide under uncertainty?
	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?
	Alec Marantz	Cognition & Perception Linguistics Center for Neuromagnetism	How does the brain accomplish symbolic computation?
	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?
	Brian McElree	Cognition & Perception Social	How do people understand sentences within the limits of working memory?
	Sebastian Michelmann	Cognition & Perception Center for Brain Imaging	How do fast neural processes interact to form and retrieve information-rich memories?
	Denis Pelli	Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science Center for Brain Imaging	How do we recognize familiar objects like words and faces?
	David Poeppel	Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science	What kind of cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms form the basis for speech perception and auditory cognition?
	Liina Pylkkänen	Cognition & Perception Linguistics Center for Neuromagnetism	What are the neural bases of language?
	Bob Rehder	*Department Chair* Cognition & Perception	How does perceived cause and effect determine categories?
	Marjorie Rhodes	Associate Chair Cognition & Perception Developmental Social	How do concepts develop?
	Pablo Ripolles	Cognition & Perception	How do music, reward and memory interact?
	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
	Diogo Almeida	NYU Abu Dhabi Cognition & Perception	How does the language system communicate with our perceptual and memory systems?
	Olivia Cheung	NYU Abu Dhabi Cognition & Perception	How does the brain perceive the visual world, and how is perception influenced by experience and learning?
	Daryl Fougnie	NYU Abu Dhabi Cognition & Perception	What are the limits in what we can perceive, pay attention to, and remember about the world?
	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?
	Bas Rokers	NYU Abu Dhabi Cognition & Perception	How does 2D sensation give rise to 3D perception?
	Kartik Sreenivasan	NYU Abu Dhabi Cognition & Perception	What are the neurobiological constraints that determine our cognitive abilities?
	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
	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?
	Ned Block	Philosophy Cognition & Perception	How can consciousness be explained in terms of the brain?
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Dan Sanes	Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception	How does auditory experience influence the developing nervous system, thereby shaping adult perceptual skills?
	Mal Semple	Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception	My research currently embraces studies at the auditory brainstem, midbrain, and cortex.
	Eero Simoncelli	Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception	My research addresses a variety of basic issues in the analysis and representation of visual imagery.
	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
	Pascal Wallisch	Cognition & Perception Center for Data Science	How do people construct the subjective reality they inhabit?

Affiliated Faculty	Faculty Name	Affiliations	Research Question
	Sudha Arunachalam	Communicative Sciences & Disorders Cognition & Perception	How do children learn to understand language?
	Emily Balcetis	Social Cognition & Perception	How do motivations influence perception?
	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?
	F. Xavier Castellanos	NYU Child Study Center Center for Brain Imaging Cognition & Perception	Conditions and Treatments: disruptive behavior disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
	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?
	Ailís Cournane	Linguistics Cognition & Perception	How do children learn which meanings are expressed by which forms in language?
	Lisa Davidson	Linguistics Cognition & Perception	How do people learn to produce and perceive sounds that are not found in their native language?
	Courtney Filippi	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Cognition & Perception	What brain mechanisms support social-emotional development in infancy?
	Adeen Flinker	Department of Neurology Cognition & Perception	What are the cortical network dynamics that allow us to fluently perceive and produce speech ?
	Peter Gollwitzer	Social Cognition & Perception	How do goals and plans affect cognition and behavior?
	Biyu He	Department of Neurology Neuroscience and Physiology Radiology Cognition & Perception	How does the brain give rise to perceptual awareness?
	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.
	Eric S Jackson	Communicative Sciences and Disorders Cognition & Perception	Why do people who stutter stutter sometimes but not other times?
	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 Levi	Steinhardt's Dept. of Communicative Sciences and Disorders Cognition & Perception	How do people learn to deal with variability in the speech signal?
	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?
	Zhong-Lin Lu	NYU Shanghai Neural Science Cognition & Perception	How does the brain compute for perception and cognition?
	Michael Long	Neuroscience and Physiology Cognition & Perception	How are communicative behaviors represented in neural circuits?
	Mohammed Milad	Department of Psychiatry Cognition & Perception	How does the brain learn not to fear?
	Amy K Roy	NYU Child Study Center Cognition & Perception
	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?
	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.
	Cathy Tamis-LeMonda	Steinhardt Applied Psychology Cognition & Perception	How do infants' interactions support learning?
	Thomas Thesen	Medical Center's Department of Neurology Cognition & Perception	How does the brain integrate information from the different senses and process language?
	Yaacov Trope	Social Cognition & Perception	How does distance affect self control?
	Jay Van Bavel	Social Cognition & Perception	How do our identities, values,and motivations change our perceptions and evaluations of others? Hello World
	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
	Doris Aaronson	Cognition & Perception	My research deals with the role of linguistic factors in reading, memory, and problem solving.
	Ted Coons	Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science	How does music move us?
	Murray Glanzer	Cognition & Perception	Likelihood ratios and decision theory.
	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.
	Richard Koppenaal	Cognition & Perception	Memory retrieval?
	Gary Marcus	Cognition & Perception	How does a child learn to talk? Why is that humans can acquire language when no other species can?
	Jim Matthews	Cognition & Perception	Togetherness in rodents may be more social than sexual.
	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.
	Paul Vitz	Cognition & Perception	Religion, especially Christianity, and psychology; personality theory; moral development; psychology and art.

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