PEOPLE
As an interdisciplinary field, cognitive science draws from the expertise of faculty and students from across the campus.
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LEADERSHIP
Chris Kennedy
Faculty Director; Professor of Linguistics
ck@uchicago.edu
Rosenwald 205E
Office Hours: By Appointment
773.834.1988
Research: Semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax, Philosophy of Language
Melinh Lai
Assistant Instructional Professor, Program Coordinator
melinh@uchicago.edu
Rosenwald 229D
Office Hours: By Appointment
773.834.0130
Research: language processing, comprehension, prediction, memory, EEG, ERPs
Faculty Advisory Board
Jason Bridges
Associate Professor of Philosophy
bridges@uchicago.edu
Stuart 208
773.834.8191
Research: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language
Leslie M. Kay
Professor of Psychology
lkay@uchicago.edu
BPSB 331
773.702.6174
Research: Roles of context in perception; olfactory neurophysiology; olfaction and cognition; sensorimotor integration; oscillatory dynamics; computational neuroscience; behavioral neuroscience
Timothy Harrison
Associate Professor of English
harrisont@uchicago.edu
Rosenwald 428
Research: Critical Theory, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, History of Ideas, History of Literary Criticism, History of Science, Literary History, Literature and Philosophy, Nonfiction Prose
Howard C. Nusbaum
Stella M. Rowley Professor of Psychology
hcnusbaum@uchicago.edu
Beecher 408
773.702.6468
Research: attention, decision-making, perception, experience, EEG, fMRI
Chenhao Tan
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science
Research: human-AI interaction, decision-making through language, human-centered explanations, computational social science
Mina Lee
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science
Research: writing with AI, human-AI interaction, natural language processing
Affiliated Faculty
Dan Arnold
Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religions
Research:Buddhist philosophy, philosophy of mind
Edward Awh
Professor of Psychology, The Institute for Mind and Biology, and the Grossman Institute for Neuroscience
Research: working memory, attention, electrophysiology
Crystal Bae
Assistant Instructional Professor for Spatial Data Science
Research: spatial cognition, movement visualization, behavioral geography, cognition of geographic regions, social decision-making
Melissa Baese-Berk
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Research: phonology, phonetics, speech perception, speech production, second language acquisition
Wilma Bainbridge
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research: visual memory, memorability, scene perception, face memory, real-world memory
Akram Bakkour
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research: memory, decision-making, fMRI, eye tracking, computational modeling
Dan Bartels
Professor of Marketing
Research: Judgment and Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, Moral Psychology, Concepts and Categories
Matthew Boyle
Professor of Philosophy
Research: Rationality, Self-Knowledge, Philosophy of Mind
Diane Brentari
Professor of Linguistics
Research: sign languages, gesture, language emergence, phonology, morphology
Marisa Casillas
Assistant Professor of Comparative Human Development
Research: language development; interactional pragmatics; conversation; cross-cultural comparison
Shereen Chaudhry
Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science
Research: social interactions and relationships, language and speech, game theory, conflict management, negotiations, teamwork, customer satisfaction
Marlene Cohen
Professor of Neurobiology
Research: neural basis of vision and cognition, attention, task switching, decision-making, electrophysiology, computational neuroscience
Monica L. Do
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Research: psycholinguistics, language production, event cognition, sentence production, experimental linguistics
Molly Erickson
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Grossman Institute for Neuroscience
Research: Visual working memory and perception in people with schizophrenia and other forms of serious mental illness
David Freedman
Professor of Neurobiology
Research: Neural circuit mechanisms of vision and cognition
Anastasia Giannakidou
Professor of Linguistics
Research: variation and diversity across languages
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Professor of Psychology
Research: creating language, learning language, co-speech gesture, silent gesture
Reid Hastie
Professor of Behavioral Science
Research: Causal Cognition, Wisdom of Crowds, Small Group Decision Making, Human Memory
Nicholas Hatsopoulos
Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Neuroscience Institute
Research: cortical basis of motor control and learning, motor behavior encoding & representation in the brain, multi-electrode arrays, mathematical modeling
Ari Holtzman
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science
Research:conceptualizing LLMs, predictive interpretability, generative models of human media
Alex Kale
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Research: design of data visualization & analysis, inferences, decisions, and value judgments
Sarah Keedy
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Grossman Institute for Neuroscience
Research: Psychosis and other psychiatric disorders, neurocognitive effects of substances of abuse; methods include EEG, MRI, neuropsychological assessment
Mikayla Kelley
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Research: philosophy of action, metaphysics, epistemology of action, control theory of action, Bayesian epistemology
Sharese King
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Research: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation & Change, Race and Language, Perception
Katherine Kinzler
Professor of Psychology
Research: development of social cognition, accent attitudes
Yuan Chang Leong
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research: Cognitive Neuroscience, Motivation, Emotion, Decision-Making, Computational Modeling, Natural Language Processing
Constantine V. Nakassis
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Research: Linguistic Anthropology, Semiotics, Tamil Nadu, South India, Mass Media
Monica Rosenberg
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research: attention, learning, memory
Ginger Schultheis
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Research: Formal semantics (especially the semantics of modals and conditionals); philosophical logic (especially vagueness); formal epistemology (especially Bayesian epistemology)
Sarah Sebo
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Research: human-robot interaction
Stephanie Smith
Assistant Professor of Marketing
stephanie.smith@chicagobooth.edu
Research:decision making, eye-tracking, mouse-tracking, computational modeling, consumer behavior
Abigail Sussman
Professor of Marketing
Research:judgment and decision making, financial well-being, behavior change, corporate social responsibility
Oleg Urminsky
Professor of Marketing
oleg.urminsky@chicagobooth.edu
Research: consumer & managerial decision making, goals and motivations, statistical reasoning, consumer relationship management
Malte Willer
Professor of Philosophy
Research: Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic
Ming Xiang
Professor of Linguistics
Research: language processing (syntactic parsing, semantic and pragmatics processing), neuroscience of language, working memory, language variation and change
Alan Yu
Professor of Linguistics
Research: Speech processing and speech production, the nature of linguistic representation, language variation and change
Jai Yu
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research: Learning and memory, Neural circuits, Behavior, Hippocampus, Prefrontal cortex, neural oscillations
Lawrence Zbikowski
Professor of Music
Research: My research involves applying research in cognitive science to various problems confronted by music scholars, with a particular empahsis on music theory and analysis.
Erik Zyman
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Research: Theoretical syntax; syntax/morphology interface; syntax/semantics interface
Mindscapes (Undergraduate RSO)
Mindscapes is UChicago’s Student Society for Cognitive Science, seeking to build a community for Undergraduate Cognitive Science Majors and Minors as well as all students interested in the field and its related subject areas. We host speaker events with selected faculty, social mixers, career-oriented events, and other events aiming to enrich the experience of all those learning and/or working in Cognitive Science at UChicago.
For updates and other communications, be sure to join the Mindscapes Discord as well as the emailing list (be sure to click “Subscribe” on the left-hand side).