Faculty

Alterman, Rick

Professor of Computer Science

Expertise: Computer-Supported Cooperation. Learning and technology. Cognitive engineering and modeling. Communication and discourse. Intelligent user interfaces.

Birren, Susan J

Dean of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Neurobiology

Expertise: Developmental neurobiology.

Cunningham, Joe

Professor of Psychology

Expertise: Clinical and developmental psychology, nonverbal communication, emotional development; gender differences

Davis, Orin C.

Lecturer in Psychology

DeScioli, Peter J.

Lecturer in Psychology

DiZio, Paul

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.

Fiser, József

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

Expertise: Visual perception and learning. Neural coding. Computational analysis of of sensory information processing.

Gutchess, Angela

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Expertise: Effects of age and culture on memory and social cognition.

Gutsell, Jennifer

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Hershenson, Maurice

Professor Emeritus of Psychology

Expertise: Visual space perception. Visual information processing. Monocular visual space perception: size and shape constancy and the metric perceived space.

Isaacowitz, Derek M

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.

Jackendoff, Ray S

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

Katz, Don

Associate Professor of Psychology

Expertise: Neural dynamics of gustatory perception and learning.

Kimball, Grayson Todd

Lecturer in Psychology

Knight, Raymond

Mortimer Gryzmish Professor of Human Relations

Expertise: Clinical psychology. Experimental psychopathology.

Lachman, Margie

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.

Lackner, Jim

Meshulam and Judith Riklis Professor of Physiology

Expertise: Spatial orientation. Human movement control. Adaptation to unusual force environments.

Liu, Xiaodong

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

Maling, Joan M

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.

Molinsky, Andrew L

Associate Professor in the Brandeis International Business School

Expertise: Emotionally demanding tasks at work, including necessary evils and cross-cultural code-switching

Morant, Ricardo B

Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Volen National Center for Complex Systems

Expertise: Perception and sensory processes; experimental psychology; art and illusion

Pepperberg, Irene Maxine

Adjunct Associate Professor in Psychology

Expertise: Expertise in animal behavior, animal cognition, comparative psychology; specialty subjects are Grey parrots

Rohleder, Nicolas

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 ...

Samet, Jerry

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Expertise: Philosophy of mind. Philosophy of psychology. Cognitive science. History of philosophy. Philosophy of science.

Sekuler, Robert

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.

Tun, Patricia

Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology

Expertise: Aging and speech comprehension and memory.

Vasilyeva, Nadezda

Lecturer in Psychology

Wasserman, Stephanie

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology

Watson, Mick

Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, George and Frances Levin Professor of Psychology

Expertise: Developmental psychology.

Wingfield, Art

Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Neuroscience and Director, Volen National Center for Complex Systems

Expertise: Language, Memory and Adult Aging.

Wodinsky, Jerome

Associate Professor of Psychology

Expertise: Comparative psychology. Learning theory. Sensory physiology.

Wolf, Jutta M.

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Wright, Ellen J

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)

Zebrowitz, Leslie A

Manuel Yellen Professor of Social Relations

Expertise: Social psychology; face perception; facial stereotypes (babyfaceness, attractiveness); age, race, and gender stereotypes.