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Cognition & Perception

Dana Ballard Professor: Computational theories of the brain with and emphasis on human vision.

Jennifer Beer Assistant Professor of Psychology: How self-processes, emotion processes and social cognition contribute to appropriate social functioning.

Craig Champlin Lillie Hage Jamail Centennial Professor: Normal and impaired auditory function in humans.

Lawrence K. Cormack Associate Professor of Psychology: Psychophysics of the human visual system and its relationship to perception and behavior.

Wilson S. Geisler III Professor and David Wechsler Regents Chair in Psychology: Behavioral and computational science of vision and visual perception.

Andreana Haley Assistant Professor of Psychology

Mary M. Hayhoe Professor of Psychology: Control of visually guided behavior in natural and virtual environments.

Alexander C. Huk Assistant Professor, Ph.D.: Neural mechanisms underlying perceptual decision-making: Neurophysiology and functional imaging.

Hongjoo (Joanne) Lee Assistant Professor of Psychology: Understanding and treatment of cognitive problems associated with Parkinsonâ€™s disease.

W. Todd Maddox Professor: Motivation-learning interface within a research framework that blends behavioral studies of healthy and brain damaged participants with brain imaging

Dennis McFadden Ashbel Smith Professor of Psychology: Sex differences in the auditory system, and their origins.

Risto Miikkulainen Professor: Computational neural network models of vision, memory and language.

Jonathan Pillow Assistant Professor of Psychology: Neural theory and modeling, visual psychophysics, Bayesian statistics, theoretical approaches to vision.

Russell Poldrack Professor of Psychology and Neurobiology: Our research is strongly focused on translation of basic cognitive neuroscience into the clinical domain, with collaborations on studies of schizophre

Alison Preston Assistant Professor of Psychology: High resolution fMRI as a tool for understanding how memory is implemented in the human brain.

David Ress Associate Director: Development of new neuroimaging methods that permit precise quantitation of brain function and structure, with particular emphasis on the study of vis

Timothy Schallert Distinguished Teaching Professor, Ph.D.: Recovery of function after stroke, tumor and other types of brain injury, as well as the neural plasticity and degenerative events associated with Par

David M. Schnyer Associate Professor: Understanding the functional and neural basis of Implicit memory and metamemory using EEG, MEG and fMRI.

Eyal Seidemann Associate Professor, Psychology: Neural population coding in the primate cortex

Max Snodderly Professor, Nutritional Sciences: Effects of aging on visual function and the potential for nutrition to slow or to prevent age-related diseases such as cataract and macular degenerati