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

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

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

Jason Bridges

Associate Professor of Philosophy

bridges@uchicago.edu
Stuart 208
773.834.8191

Research: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language

Leslie M. Kay

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

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

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

Chenhao Tan

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science

chenhao@uchicago.edu

Research: human-AI interaction, decision-making through language, human-centered explanations, computational social science

 

Mina Lee

Mina Lee

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science

mnlee@uchicago.edu

Research: writing with AI, human-AI interaction, natural language processing

Affiliated Faculty

Dan Arnold

Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religions

d-arnold@uchicago.edu

Research:Buddhist philosophy, philosophy of mind

Edward Awh

Professor of Psychology, The Institute for Mind and Biology, and the Grossman Institute for Neuroscience

awh@uchicago.edu 

Research: working memory, attention, electrophysiology

Crystal Bae

Assistant Instructional Professor for Spatial Data Science

cbae@uchicago.edu 

Research: spatial cognition, movement visualization, behavioral geography, cognition of geographic regions, social decision-making

Melissa Baese-Berk

Associate Professor of Linguistics

mmbb@uchicago.edu 

Research: phonology, phonetics, speech perception, speech production, second language acquisition

Wilma Bainbridge

Assistant Professor of Psychology

wilma@uchicago.edu

Research: visual memory, memorability, scene perception, face memory, real-world memory

Akram Bakkour

Assistant Professor of Psychology

bakkour@uchicago.edu

Research: memory, decision-making, fMRI, eye tracking, computational modeling 

Dan Bartels

Professor of Marketing

bartels@uchicago.edu

Research: Judgment and Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, Moral Psychology, Concepts and Categories

Matthew Boyle

Professor of Philosophy

mbboyle@uchicago.edu

Research: Rationality, Self-Knowledge, Philosophy of Mind

Diane Brentari

Professor of Linguistics

dbrentari@uchicago.edu

Research: sign languages, gesture, language emergence, phonology, morphology

Marisa Casillas

Assistant Professor of Comparative Human Development

mcasillas@uchicago.edu

Research: language development; interactional pragmatics; conversation; cross-cultural comparison

Shereen Chaudhry

Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science

chauds@chicagobooth.edu

Research: social interactions and relationships,  language and speech, game theory, conflict management, negotiations, teamwork, customer satisfaction

Marlene Cohen

Professor of Neurobiology

marlenecohen@uchicago.edu 

Research: neural basis of vision and cognition, attention, task switching, decision-making, electrophysiology, computational neuroscience

Monica L. Do

Assistant Professor of Linguistics

monicado@uchicago.edu

Research: psycholinguistics, language production, event cognition, sentence production, experimental linguistics

Molly Erickson

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Grossman Institute for Neuroscience

merickson1@uchicago.edu 

Research: Visual working memory and perception in people with schizophrenia and other forms of serious mental illness

David Freedman

Professor of Neurobiology

dfreedman@uchicago.edu

Research: Neural circuit mechanisms of vision and cognition

Anastasia Giannakidou

Professor of Linguistics

giannaki@uchicago.edu

Research: variation and diversity across languages

Susan Goldin-Meadow

Professor of Psychology

sgm@uchicago.edu

Research: creating language, learning language, co-speech gesture, silent gesture

Reid Hastie

Professor of Behavioral Science

reid.hastie@chicagobooth.edu

Research: Causal Cognition, Wisdom of Crowds, Small Group Decision Making, Human Memory

Nicholas Hatsopoulos

Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Neuroscience Institute

nicho@uchicago.edu

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

aholtaman@uchicago.edu

Research:conceptualizing LLMs, predictive interpretability, generative models of human media

Alex Kale

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

kalea@uchicago.edu

Research: design of data visualization & analysis, inferences, decisions, and value judgments

Sarah Keedy

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Grossman Institute for Neuroscience

skeedy@bsd.uchicago.edu 

Research: Psychosis and other psychiatric disorders, neurocognitive effects of substances of abuse; methods include EEG, MRI, neuropsychological assessment

Mikayla Kelley

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

mikelley@uchicago.edu

Research: philosophy of action, metaphysics,  epistemology of action, control theory of action, Bayesian epistemology

Sharese King

Assistant Professor of Linguistics

sharesek@uchicago.edu

Research: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation & Change, Race and Language, Perception

Katherine Kinzler

Professor of Psychology

kinzler@uchicago.edu

Research: development of social cognition, accent attitudes

Yuan Chang Leong

Assistant Professor of Psychology

ycleong@uchicago.edu

Research: Cognitive Neuroscience, Motivation, Emotion, Decision-Making, Computational Modeling, Natural Language Processing

Jason Merchant

Professor of Linguistics

merchant@uchicago.edu

Research: syntax, semantics

Constantine V. Nakassis

Associate Professor of Anthropology

cnakassi@uchicago.edu

Research: Linguistic Anthropology, Semiotics, Tamil Nadu, South India, Mass Media

Monica Rosenberg

Assistant Professor of Psychology

mdrosenberg@uchicago.edu

Research: attention, learning, memory

Ginger Schultheis

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

vks@uchicago.edu

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

sarahsebo@uchicago.edu

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

asussman@chicagobooth.edu

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

willer@uchicago.edu

Research: Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic

Ming Xiang

Professor of Linguistics

mxiang@uchicago.edu

Research: language processing (syntactic parsing, semantic and pragmatics processing), neuroscience of language, working memory, language variation and change

Alan Yu

Professor of Linguistics

aclyu@uchicago.edu

Research: Speech processing and speech production, the nature of linguistic representation, language variation and change

Jai Yu

Assistant Professor of Psychology

jaiyu@uchicago.edu

Research: Learning and memory, Neural circuits, Behavior, Hippocampus, Prefrontal cortex, neural oscillations

Lawrence Zbikowski

Professor of Music

larry@uchicago.edu

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

ezyman@uchicago.edu

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).

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