Departments & Programs

Cognitive Science

Faculty
Director of Cognitive Science

  • Colin Allen (History and Philosophy of Science)

Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science
  • Elinor Ostrom
Barbara B. Jacobs Chairs in Education and Technology
  • Donald J. Cunningham (Emeritus)
  • Thomas M. Duffy (Emeritus)
Chancellor's Professor of Education and Martha Lea and Bill Armstrong Chair in Teacher Education
  • Frank K. Lester (Emeritus)
Chancellor's Professor of Linguistics
  • Daniel Dinnsen
Chancellor's Professors of Psychological and Brain Sciences
  • James C. Craig
  • Robert L. Goldstone
  • Steven Sherman
  • Eliot R. Smith
College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science
  • Douglas R. Hofstadter
Distinguished Professor of Biology
  • Ellen D. Ketterson
Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
  • Robert Nosofsky
  • David Pisoni
Distinguished Professor and Luther Dana Waterman Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
  • Richard M. Shiffrin
Distinguished Professor, Chancellor's Professor, and Chair of Psychological and Brain Sciences
  • Linda B. Smith
Distinguished Professor and Rudy Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
  • James T. Townsend
Elinor Cox Riggs Professor
  • Aina Puce
John F. Mee Chair of Management
  • Philip Podsakoff
Oscar R. Ewing Professor of Philosophy
  • J. Michael Dunn (Emeritus)
Provost Professor of Cognitive Science and History and Philosophy of Science

  • Colin Allen

Provost Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
  • Olaf Sporns
Robert A Lucas Chair of Law
  • Jeffrey Evans Stake
Rudy Professor of Economics
  • George von Furstenberg (Emeritus)
Rudy Professor of Informatics and Computing
  • Alessandro Vespignani
Rudy Professor of Statistics, Psychological and Brain Sciences, and Sociology
  • Stanley Wasserman
Tanis Chair of History and Philosophy of Science
  • Elisabeth Lloyd
Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science
  • Katy Börner
Professors
  • Joyce Alexander (School of Education)
  • Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig (Second Language Studies)
  • Randall Beer (Computer Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Cognitive Science)
  • Geoffrey P. Bingham (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
  • Curtis Bonk (School of Education)
  • Arthur Bradley (School of Optometry)
  • Jerome Busemeyer (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
  • Thomas Busey (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
  • Edward Castronova (Telecommunications)
  • J. Clancy Clements (Linguistics, Spanish and Portuguese)
  • Phil Connell (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
  • Stuart Davis (Linguistics)
  • Kenneth de Jong (Linguistics)
  • Steven Franks (Slavic Languages and Literatures, Linguistics)
  • Preston Garraghty (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
  • Judith Gierut (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
  • Andrew Hanson (School of Informatics and Computing)
  • Jeffrey Hart (Political Science)
  • Julia Heiman (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
  • Edward Hirt (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
  • Susan S. Jones (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
  • Ellen D. Ketterson (Biology, Gender Studies)
  • Marianne Kielian-Gilbert (Jacobs School of Music)
  • John Kruschke (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
  • Annie Lang (Telecommunications)
  • David Leake (School of Informatics and Computing)
  • David MacKay (Kelley School of Business, Geography)
  • Emília Martins (Biology)
  • Michael McRobbie (Philosophy, School of Informatics and Computing)
  • Filippo Menczer (School of Informatics and Computing)
  • Lawrence Moss (Mathematics)
  • Timothy O'Connor (Philosophy)
  • Elinor Ostrom (Political Science, School of Public and Environmental Affairs)
  • Jonathan Plucker (School of Education)
  • Paul Purdom (School of Informatics and Computing)
  • Christopher Raphael (School of Informatics and Computing)
  • Charles Reigeluth (School of Education)
  • Kathy Schick (Anthropology)
  • Robert Sherwood (School of Education)
  • Martin Siegel (School of Education, School of Informatics and Computing)
  • Bruce Soloman
  • Larry Thibos (School of Optometry)
  • Peter Todd (Psychological and Brain Sciences, School of Informatics and Computing, Cognitive Science)
  • Nicholas Toth (Anthropology)
  • Frances Trix (Anthropology, Linguistics)
  • Michael W. Trosset (Statistics)
  • Dirk Van Gucht (Computer Science)
  • Arlington Williams (Economics)
  • Wayne Winston (Kelley School of Business)
  • Larry Yaeger (School of Informatics and Computing)
Professors Emeriti
  • Donald Cunningham (Cognitive Science, School of Education, School of Informatics and Computing)
  • Ivor Davies (School of Education)
  • S. Lee Guth (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
  • Beverly Hartford (Linguistics)
  • Diane Kewley-Port (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
  • Eugene Kintgen (English)
  • Daniel Maki (Mathematics)
  • Eugene McGregor (School of Public and Environmental Affairs)
  • Christopher Peebles (Anthropology)
  • Robert Port (Linguistics)
  • Dennis Senchuk (Philosophy)
  • Alfred Strickholm (School of Medicine)
  • Maynard Thompson (Mathematics)
  • William Timberlake (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
  • Charles S. Watson (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
Adjunct Professor
  • James D. Miller (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
Associate Professors
  • Julie D. Anderson (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
  • Raquel Anderson (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
  • John M. Beggs (Physics)
  • Eli Blevis (School of Informatics and Computing)
  • Rowan Candy (School of Optometry)
  • Hamid R. Ekbia (School of Library and Information Science, Cognitive Science)
  • Tom Evans (Geography)
  • Julia Fox (Telecommunications)
  • Theodore Frick (School of Education)
  • Michael Gasser (School of Informatics and Computing)
  • Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
  • Jason Gold (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
  • Dennis Groth (School of Informatics and Computing)
  • Kenneth E. Hay (School of Education)
  • Daniel Hickey (School of Education)
  • Eric Isaacson (Jacobs School of Music)
  • Thomas James (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
  • Yoshihisa Kitagawa (Linguistics)
  • Jennifer Lentz (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
  • Filippo Menczer (School of Informatics and Computing)
  • Jonathan Mills (School of Informatics and Computing)
  • Laura Murray (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
  • Sharlene Newman (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
  • John Paolillo (School of Informatics and Computing, School of Library and Information Science)
  • Luis Pessoa (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
  • Robert Potter (Telecommunications)
  • Gregory J. E. Rawlins (School of Informatics and Computing)
  • Luis Rocha (School of Informatics and Computing)
  • Frederick Unverzagt (Psychiatry, School of Medicine)
  • Jonathan Weinberg (Philosophy)
  • Chen Yu (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
Assistant Professors
  • Yong Yeol Ahn (School of Informatics and Computing)
  • Shahzeen Attari (School of Public and Environmental Affairs)
  • Tessa Bent (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
  • Eli Blevis (School of Informatics and Computing)
  • Joshua W. Brown (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
  • Markus Dickinson (Linguistics)
  • Ying Ding (School of Library and Information Science)
  • Melissa Gresalfi (School of Education)
  • Amy Hackenberg (School of Education)
  • Amit Hagar (History and Philosophy of Science)
  • Laura Hurley (Biology)
  • Michael Jones (Psychological and Brain Sciences, Cognitive Science)
  • Karen Iler Kirk (Otolaryngology, School of Medicine)
  • Sandra Küebler (Linguistics)
  • Robert J. Rydell (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
  • Kalpana Shankar (School of Informatics and Computing)
  • David Stringer (Second Language Studies)
Associate Scientists 
  • Erick Janssen (Psychological and Brain Sciences, The Kinsey Institute)
  • Gary Kidd (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
Senior Lecturer
  • Leah Savion (Philosophy)
Director of Technology
  • Ruth Eberle
Academic Advising
  • Izabela Ziolkowska-Kenney, Eigenmann Hall 818, (812) 856-0052