Cognition and 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?
	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?
	Ted Coons	Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science	How does music move us?
	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?
	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?
	Brian McElree	Cognition & Perception Social	How do people understand sentences within the limits of working memory?
	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 Areas
	Diogo Almeida	NYU Abu Dhabi Cognition & Perception	neurolinguistics, language processing
	Olivia Cheung	NYU Abu Dhabi Cognition & Perception	how the human brain perceives the visual world, how perception is influenced by experience and learn...
	Daryl Fougnie	NYU Abu Dhabi Cognition & Perception	perception, memory
	Bas Rokers	NYU Abu Dhabi Cognition & Perception	Visual Perception; Motion Processing; Depth Perception; Neuroimaging; Virtual Reality
	Kartik Sreenivasan	NYU Abu Dhabi Cognition & Perception	short-term memory, working memory
	Robert Volcic	NYU Abu Dhabi Cognition & Perception	neuroscience, cognitive systems
	Affiliated Faculty	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?
	Sudha Arunachalam	Communicative Sciences & Disorders Cognition & Perception	How do children learn to understand language?
	Emily Balcetis	Social Cognition & Perception	How do motivations influence perception?
	Ned Block	Philosophy Cognition & Perception	How can consciousness be explained in terms of the brain?
	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
	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?
	Jon Freeman	Social Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science	How do we form split-second perceptions of other people?
	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.
	Peter Gollwitzer	Social Cognition & Perception	How do goals and plans affect cognition and behavior?
	Michael Hawken	Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception	My interest is in the role neurons play in visual perception and visuomotor behavior.
	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.
	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?
	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.
	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	Cognition & Perception	How does the brain compute for perception and cognition?
	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.
	Amy K Roy	NYU Child Study Center Cognition & Perception
	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.
	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.
	Eero Simoncelli	Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception	My research addresses a variety of basic issues in the analysis and representation of visual imagery.
	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?
	Jim Uleman	Social Cognition & Perception	How do we perceive others, conciously and unconsciously, and what are the consequences?
	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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