Faculty
Professor of Computer Science
Expertise: Computer-Supported Cooperation. Learning and technology. Cognitive engineering and modeling. Communication and discourse. Intelligent user interfaces.
Dean of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Neurobiology
Expertise: Developmental neurobiology.
Professor of Psychology
Expertise: Clinical and developmental psychology, nonverbal communication, emotional development; gender differences
Lecturer in Psychology
Lecturer in Psychology
Associate Professor of Psychology and Volen National Center for Complex Systems
Expertise: Human spatial orientation; posture and balance; movement control and coordination; sensory-motor adaptation; motor development; multi-sensory interactions; space perception; space flight physiology; human factors in virtual environments; motion sickness.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
Expertise: Visual perception and learning. Neural coding. Computational analysis of of sensory information processing.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Expertise: Effects of age and culture on memory and social cognition.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Professor Emeritus of Psychology
Expertise: Visual space perception. Visual information processing. Monocular visual space perception: size and shape constancy and the metric perceived space.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology
Expertise: Emotion and Aging. Research focuses on emotion in adulthood and old age. In particular, he is interested in the interplay of cognitive processes, particularly attention, and emotion through the adult lifespan.
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Volen National Center for Complex Systems
Expertise: Semantics of natural language; syntax; general linguistic theory; evolution of language; language and spatial cognition; consciousness; social cognition; music cognition
Associate Professor of Psychology
Expertise: Neural dynamics of gustatory perception and learning.
Lecturer in Psychology
Mortimer Gryzmish Professor of Human Relations
Expertise: Clinical psychology. Experimental psychopathology.
Minnie and Harold Fierman Professor of Psychology
Expertise: Life-span development; midlife; aging; sense of control; adult personality; memory; health-promoting behaviors; intervention research to improve cognitive and physical functioning.
Meshulam and Judith Riklis Professor of Physiology
Expertise: Spatial orientation. Human movement control. Adaptation to unusual force environments.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Expertise: Applied Statistics: linear and non-linear Multi-level modeling / Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM), Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), General & Generalized Linear Modeling, Longitudinal Data Analysis Child Development: factors (at individual, familial, communal, & cultural levels) related to child psychological adjustment (internalizing & externalizing) and school performance
Professor Emerita of Linguistics and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems
Expertise: Linguistics. Syntactic theory. Historical syntax. Metrics. Syntactic theory. Icelandic syntax. Korean syntax.
Associate Professor in the Brandeis International Business School
Expertise: Emotionally demanding tasks at work, including necessary evils and cross-cultural code-switching
Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Volen National Center for Complex Systems
Expertise: Perception and sensory processes; experimental psychology; art and illusion
Adjunct Associate Professor in Psychology
Expertise: Expertise in animal behavior, animal cognition, comparative psychology; specialty subjects are Grey parrots
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Expertise: Dr. Rohleder's main research interest is the interaction between the central nervous system with the periphery of the body. More specifically, research focuses on how state or trait changes in central nervous system activity affect biomedical health through efferent signaling pathways. For example, current projects address the question whether and how repeated stress exposure during the lifespan can lead to ...
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Expertise: Philosophy of mind. Philosophy of psychology. Cognitive science. History of philosophy. Philosophy of science.
Louis and Frances Salvage Professor of Psychology and Professor of Neuroscience
Expertise: Visual perception. Cognitive processes, particularly visual memory, navigation of complex environments, imitation of seen actions, and age-related changes in cognitive function.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology
Expertise: Aging and speech comprehension and memory.
Lecturer in Psychology
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, George and Frances Levin Professor of Psychology
Expertise: Developmental psychology.
Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Neuroscience and Director, Volen National Center for Complex Systems
Expertise: Language, Memory and Adult Aging.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Expertise: Comparative psychology. Learning theory. Sensory physiology.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Assistant Professor in Psychology
Expertise: The intersection between clinical psychology, depression, gender, development, emotion regulation. Specifically: gender and developmental differences in and risks for depression; Risk, resiliency and depression prevention; emotion regulation, self-focused attention, rumination and reflection; coping, and development; psychosomatic obstetrics and gynecology and affective disorders (i.e., postpartum depression and Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder)
Manuel Yellen Professor of Social Relations
Expertise: Social psychology; face perception; facial stereotypes (babyfaceness, attractiveness); age, race, and gender stereotypes.