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Faculty Directory: Cognitive Psychology

    Interests:

 
    Interests:
  • Infant cognitive development and early word learning
  • Interaction between cognition and early language learning

 
    Interests:
  • Theories of intelligence
  • Cognitive development
  • Children and the law
  • Children's testimonial competence

 
    Interests:
  • Language acquisition and processing
  • Neural network models of language and statistical learning
  • ERP measures of statistical learning and language
  • Language evolution

 
    Interests:
  • Active sensation and the construction of sensory representations
  • Olfactory processing, generalization and perception, learning and memory

 
    Interests:
  • Perception of motion, depth, and layout
  • Event perception
  • Art and psychology
  • Structural and functional analyses of perceptual stimuli

 
    Interests:
  • Behavioral statistics
  • Mathematical models of brain evolution

 
    Interests:
  • Computational theories and models of cognition
  • Visual object and scene processing
  • Language acquisition and processing

 
    Interests:
  • Automaticity
  • Social cognition
  • Automatic evaluation
  • Implicit mechanisms of goal pursuit
  • The role of affect in judgment and decision-making

 
    Interests:
  • Theories and models of sensory coding and visual processing
  • Visual perception
  • Relations between the structure of the natural environment andthe representation of that environment by sensory systems

 
    Interests:
  • Structure and function of the vertebrate nervous system, particularly the visual system and the cerebral cortex

 
    Interests:
  • Everyday judgment and decision making
  • Critical thinking and belief
  • Egocentrism
  • Optimism, pessimism, satisfaction, and regret
  • Behavioral economics

 
    Interests:
  • Social learning, with a focus on the development of speech and language
  • Prelinguistic vocal development
  • Early word learning
  • Psychobiology of parental behavior
  • Comparative approaches to the development and evolution of communication

 
    Interests:
  • Human olfaction
  • Human retronasal olfaction

 
    Interests:
  • Human communication and language use

 
    Interests:
  • Photorefractive methods of determining focusing ability of infants and young children
  • High-order aberrations of the eye
  • Physiological optics in various species

 
    Interests:
  • Influence of affect on social interaction and thought processes
  • Social cognitive neuroscience
  • Consumer decision making
  • Functioning in work or organizational settings

 
    Interests:
  • Animal behavior and mechanisms of social behavior
  • Olfactory communication, especially in mammals
  • Social recognition and memory
  • Sense of smell and the neural and hormonal mechanisms of behavior

 
    Interests:
  • Cognitive development
  • Scientific reasoning
  • Conceptual development
  • Problem solving and reasoning

 
    Interests:
  • Human perception and cognition
  • Cognitive processes in music perception and memory
  • Application of mathematical models to psychological data
  • Computer music and computer modeling of music

 
    Interests:
  • Improvements in sensory test methods applied to food analysis
  • Effects of stimulus context on psychophysical judgments
  • Studies of taste, smell and oral tactile perception

 
    Interests:
  • Neural basis of sensory information processing

 
    Interests:
  • Language and mind, especially first language acquisition
  • Linguistic theory of Universal Grammar
  • Cognitive development

 
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    Interests:
  • Memory (especially recall of life events)
  • Intelligence (especially IQ tests and their social significance)

 
    Interests:
  • Biopsychology of brain state change in sleep
  • Physiology of sensory, motor, and cognitive experience in dreams

 
    Interests:
  • Risk and rationality
  • False memory

 
    Interests:
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Visuolinguistic processing
  • Visual memory and attention

 
    Interests:
  • Developmental cognitive neuroscience, with emphasis on reading and reading disabilities
  • Use of brain imaging techniques (i.e. functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)) to explore the development of specific neural processes

 

 
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