Affiliated Faculty
Jelle
Atema
Professor
of Biology
PhD, University of Michigan
Sensory physiology and behavior
Helen
Barbas
Professor,
Department of Health Sciences, Sargent College
PhD, Physiology/Neurophysiology, McGill University
Organization of the prefrontal cortex, evolution of the neocortex
Catherine L. Caldwell-Harris
Associate Professor of Psychology
PhD, Cognitive Science and Psychology, University of California, San Diego
Visual word recognition, psycholinguistics, cognitive semantics, second language acquisition, computational models of cognition
H.
Steven Colburn
Professor
of Biomedical Engineering
Director, Center for Hearing Research
PhD, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Audition, binaural interaction, auditory virtual environments,
signal processing models of hearing
Howard
Eichenbaum
Professor
of Psychology
Chair, Department of Psychology
Director, Center for Memory and Brain
PhD, Psychology, University of Michigan
Neurophysiological studies of how the hippocampal system
mediates declarative memory
William
D. Eldred, III
Professor
of Biology
PhD, University of Colorado, Health Science Center
Visual neuralbiology
John C. Fiala
Lecturer, SAR Health Sciences
PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University
Synaptic plasticity, dendrite anatomy and pathology, neuroinformatics
Jean
Berko Gleason
Professor
Emerita of Psychology
PhD, Harvard University
Psycholinguistics
Sucharita
Gopal
Professor of Geography
PhD, University of California at Santa Barbara
Neural networks, computational modeling of behavior, geographical information
systems, fuzzy sets, and spatial cognition
Michael
E. Hasselmo
Professor of Psychology
Director, Computational Neurophysiology Laboratory
PhD, Experimental Psychology, Oxford University
Computational modeling and experimental testing of neuromodulatory
mechanisms involved in encoding, retrieval and consolidation
Allyn
Hubbard
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin
VLSI circuit design: digital, analog, subthreshold analog, biCMOS,
CMOS; information processing in neurons, neural net chips, synthetic aperture
radar (SAR) processing chips, sonar processing chips; auditory models
and experiments
Dae-Shik Kim
Associate Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Director, Center for Biomedical Imaging (CBI)
PhD, Neurophysiology, Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research
Functional and connectivity mapping of the human visual cortex
Thomas
G. Kincaid
Professor
Emeritus of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering
PhD, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Signal
and image processing, neural networks, non-destructive testing
Mark
Kon
Professor
of Mathematics and Statistics
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Neural network theory, complexity theory, wavelet theory, mathematical
physics
Nancy
Kopell
Professor of Mathematics
Co-Director, Center for Biodynamics
PhD, Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley
Dynamics of networks of neurons
Jacqueline
A. Liederman
Professor of Psychology
PhD, Psychology, University of Rochester
Dynamics of interhemispheric cooperation, prenatal correlates of neurodevelopmental
disorders
Joseph
Perkell
Adjunct
Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems
Senior Research Scientist, Research Lab of Electronics and Department
of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Motor control of speech production
Marc Pomplun
Adjunct Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems
Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston
PhD, Computer Science, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Eye movements, visual attention, modeling of congnitive processes, human-computer interaction
Adam
Reeves
Adjunct Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems
Professor of Psychology, Northeastern University
PhD, Psychology, City University of New York
Psychophysics, cognitive psychology, vision
Elliot
Saltzman
Associate
Professor of Physical Therapy, Sargent College
Senior Scientist, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT
PhD, Developmental Psychology, University of Minnesota
Modeling and experimental studies of human sensorimotor control and coordination
of the limbs and speech articulators, focusing on issues of timing in
skilled activities
Robert
Savoy
Adjunct Associate
Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems
Assistant in Experimental Psychology; Director, fMRI Education;
Instructor,
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
President, HyperVision Incorporated, Lexington, MA
PhD, Experimental Psychology, Harvard University
Computational neuroscience; visual psychophysics of color, form, and motion
perception
Teaching about functional MRI and other brain mapping methods
Robert
Sekuler
Adjunct
Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brandeis University
Frances and Louis H. Salvage Professor of Psychology, Brandeis University
Consultant in neurosurgery, Boston Children's Hospital
PhD, Psychology, Brown University
Visual motion, brain imaging, relation of visual perception, memory,
and movement
David
Somers
Associate
Professor of Psychology
Director, Perceptual Neuroimaging Laboratory
PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University
Functional MRI, psychophysical, and computational investigations of visual
perception and attention
Chantal
E. Stern
Associate
Professor of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Boston University
Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Director, Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory
Director, Brain, Behavior, and Cognition Program
PhD, Experimental Psychology, Oxford University
Functional
neuroimaging studies (fMRI and MEG) of learning and memory
Malvin
C. Teich
Professor
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Physics
PhD, Cornell University
Quantum optics and imaging, photonics, wavelets and fractal stochastic
processes, biological signal processing and information transmission
Joseph Z. Tsien
Professor of Pharmacology and Biomedical Engineering
PhD, Molecular Biology, University of Minnesota
Neural mechanisms of learning, memory, and concepts, neural codes and brain-machine interface
Lucia
Vaina
Professor
of Biomedical Engineering
Research Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine
PhD, Sorbonne (France); Dres Science, National Politechnique Institute,
Toulouse (France)
Computational visual neuroscience, biological and computational learning,
functional and structural neuroimaging
Takeo
Watanabe
Professor of Psychology
Director, Vision Sciences Laboratory
PhD, Behavioral Sciences, University of Tokyo
Perception of objects and motion and effects of attention on perception
using psychophysics and brain imaging (f-MRI)
Jeremy
Wolfe
Adjunct Professor of Cognitive
and Neural Systems
Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Psychophysicist, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Surgery Department
Director of Psychophysical Studies, Center for Clinical Cataract Research
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Visual attention, pre-attentive and attentive object representation
Curtis
Woodcock
Professor
of Geography and Environment
Director, Geographic Applications, Center for Remote Sensing
PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara
Biophysical remote sensing, particularly of forests and natural vegetation,
canopy reflectance models and their inversion, spatial modeling, and change
detection; biogeography; spatial analysis; geographic information systems;
digital image processing
