CNS Program

Faculty

Core Faculty

Except where noted, primary appointments are in the Department of Psychology.

John Allen (emotion, performance and error monitoring, memory assessment, psychophysiology)

Gene Alexander (neuroimaging, neuropsychology, cognitive aging, Alzheimer's disease)

Carol Barnes (neural bases of aging)

Felice Bedford (perceptual learning and plasticity, perception, learning, motor processes, cross-modal interactions)

Thomas G. Bever (Linguistics) (language processing, behavioral neuroscience)

Richard Bootzin (sleep and sleep disorders)

Terry C. Daniel (environment perception)

Jean-Marc Fellous (computational neuroscience, learning and emotional memory, neuromodulation)

Kenneth I. Forster (language processing, visual word recognition, masked priming)

Michael Frank (computational cognition and neuroscience)

Merrill F. Garrett (language processing, aphasia) Emeritus

LouAnn Gerken (language development, learning, language production)

Elizabeth L. Glisky (neuropsychology, cognitive rehabilitation, memory, aging)

Rebecca Gomez (statistical learning, language development, cognitive development and learning)

W. Jake Jacobs (stress, memory, spatial cognition, psychopathology)

Alfred W. Kaszniak (emotion, metacognition, memory, neurological disorders)

Lynn Nadel (memory, spatial cognition, hippocampal function, stress)

Janet Nicol (language processing, aphasia)

Mary A. Peterson (visual perception & cognition, perceptual learning, attention)

Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini (Cognitive Science) (language and mind, judgment and decision making)

Lee Ryan (neuroimaging, memory, aging)

Alan Sanfey (neuroimaging, decision making)

Anouk Scheres (child neuropsychology, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, neuroimaging)

Affiliated Faculty

Geoffrey Ahern: Clinical/Research Interests: Behavioral Neurology; Dementia; Alzheimer's Disease; Wada Test; Paraneoplastic Syndromes; Cerebral Lateralization for Emotional Processes; Quantitative EEG; Psychophysiology.

Diane Archangeli: My current research studies the way that the tongue moves as we speak, primarily using ultrasound as the means of viewing the tongue. Issues of particular interest to me are cases where there are multiple possible articulations which produce the same acoustic signal, and how the mouth negotiates the ambiguities.

Kobus Barnard: develops methods to model, mine, and visualize large, multi-modal data sets, with particular focus on image understanding and scientific applications. He is also interested in parallels between human cognition and machine intelligence.

Pelagie Beeson: My research interests include the study of the language and cognition in healthy adults and those with acquired neurogenic communication disorders. In particular, we study the cognitive processes and neural substrates that support spoken and written language, and the nature and treatment of language impairments associated with stroke and progressive neurological disease.

Terry Connolly: My research program in a nut shell (what else?) is about: Studies of actual decision making, in both lab and field settings, with a secondary interest in normative analysis of these decisions. Current focus has been on the role of emotions in influencing decisions.

Andy Fuglevand: The broad goal of the work carried out in our laboratory is to understand how the mammalian nervous system controls the action of skeletal muscles to produce coordinated movements. We use a variety of experimental approaches, including computer modeling and simulation, single motor unit recording, and microneurographic methods to record and stimulate single sensory and motor axons. Our experiments address a range of topics from those related to how individual neurons integrate synaptic information to those associated with the development of new methods to restore movement and sensation in paralyzed individuals. Of particular emphasis at present are studies designed to characterize the functional organization of the corticospinal pathways that underlie the control of hand and finger movements.

Mike Hammond: My research involves language sound structure, most especially English syllable structure and stress. I investigate these structures from a variety of perspectives: traditional linguistic elicitation and distributional regularities, but also using other methodologies, e.g. psycholinguistics, computational modeling, and poetry. Most recently, I am working on subjects' sensitivity to frequency information in intuitions of wellformedness.

Heidi Harley: Research focusses on the relationship between syntax and semantics, particularly with respect to verb meaning and event structure.

Eliot Hearst: investigates the memorial techniques, quantity and quality of visualization, and development of expertise in chessmasters who have played many games (up to about 50) at once without sight of any of the opponents'positions. The work has implications for ways in which imagery and memory combine in gaining expertise in other types of skills, intellectual and motor. Besides this topic, Hearst has many years of experience working in the fields of learning, memory, animal behavior, and the history of psychology.

Elizabeth Krupinski: Observer performance and human factors evaluation in medical imaging applications (radiology & telemedicine). Role of perception, cognition & experience in the interpretation of medical images.

Chris Maloney: My current research is on naturalistic theories of mental content and phenomenal consciousness. In particular, I am engaged in explaining how mental content is determined by naturalistic theories of information. I am also developing an account of phenomenal consciousness in perceptual contexts in terms of the nature of mental representations.

Elena Plante: studies how the human brain supports language. Techniques include behavioral studies of children and adults who have developmental language disorders, structural brain imaging (MRI) and functional brain imaging (fMRI) of individuals with normal and impaired language skills.

John Pollock: My interest is in understanding cognizers and cognition, both from a philosophical and a computational point of view. I investigate various aspects of rational cognition, and construct computer models (in the form of AI systems) to test my theories. Most of my current research is aimed at decision-theoretic planning.

Steve Rapcsak: My research interests are in the areas of face recognition memory and executive function. I'm also involved in research on the cognitive mechanisms and neural substrates of written language processing and on the neuropsychological and biological correlates of neurodegenerative disorders (AD, semantic dementia).

Eric Reiman: uses positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging to study the functions and structure of the human brain, to help in the unusually early detection and tracking of Alzheimer's diseae, and to provide a cost-effective way to evaluate putative disease-slowing and prevention therapies." (At UA College of Medicine in Phoenix)