Faculty Directory: Cognitive Psychology
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 evolution, acquisition and processing
- Neural network models of language and statistical learning
- ERP measures of statistical learning and language
- Cognitive Science/Neuroscience
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
Interests:- Biopsychology of brain state change in sleep
- Physiology of sensory, motor, and cognitive experience in dreams
Interests:- Risk and rationality
- False memory
