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• Kevin Hunt
  Professor, Anthropology
  Adjunct Professor, Biology
  - Human Origins and Primate Evolution

• Kathy Schick
  Professor, Anthropology
  

• Thomas Schoenemann
  Associate Professor, Anthropology
  Departmental Liason to Cognitive Science, Anthropology
  - Evolution of brain size and function, evolution of intelligence and language, language and cognition, brain-behavior associations, brain imaging, quantification of cognitive variability, morphometric registration algorithms, agent-based computational mode

• Nicholas Toth
  Professor, Anthropology
  

• Greg Demas
  Professor, Biology
  Associate Chair for Research, Biology
  - Evolution, Ecology & Behavior

• Laura Hurley
  Associate Professor, Biology
  Departmental Liason to Cognitive Science, Biology
  

• Ellen Ketterson
  Distinguished Professor, Biology and Gender Studies
  

• Emília P. Martins
  Professor, Biology
  - Evolution of complex behavioral traits

• Armin P. Moczek
  Associate Professor, Biology
  Associate Professor, Indiana Molecular Biology Institute
  Associate Professor, Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior
  

• Michael J. Wade
  Distinguished Professor, Biology
  

• Douglas Hofstadter
  College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, Cognitive Science
  Adjunct Professor, Comparative Literature
  Director, Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition
  - Models of analogy-making

• Chien-Jer Charles Lin
  Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
  - Relations between grammar and cognition, eye tracking, head-final relative clauses, syntax/semantic interface, vowel perception, the representation and processing of lexical ambiguity.

• Natsuko Tsujimura
  Professor, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies
  Professor, School of Global and International Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures
  - Japanese linguistics, lexical semantics, general linguistic theory, sociolinguistics, first language acquisition, second language acquisition, language pedagogy, language of food, food studies

• James Walker
  Professor, Economics
  

• Arlington Williams
  Professor, Economics
  - Experimental economics and decision making; predictive models of individual and aggregate behavior

• Joyce M. Alexander
  Professor, Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology
  Professor, Department of Education
  - Cognitive strategy development

• Curtis Bonk
  Professor, Education
  Departmental Liason to Cognitive Science, Education
  - Applied cognitive psychology; metacognition; online pedagogy, e-learning, computer conferencing research, collaborative writing; social contexts for learning; Web tool development; interactive learning technologies/cognition-enhancing tools

• Joshua Danish
  Assistant professor, Learning Sciences, School of Education
  - How people learn through activity, embodied cognition, how students create and use material representational tools such as drawings and graphs, building and understanding computational models.

• Sean Duncan
  Assistant Professor, Education
  

• Amy Hackenberg
  Associate Professor, Mathematics Education
  

• Kenneth E. Hay
  Associate Professor, Learning Sciences, School of Education
  - Learning, cognition and emerging technologies; virtual reality, modeling-based learning; MMORPG and computer games.

• Daniel Hickey
  Associate Professor, Counseling and Educational Psychology
  

• Cindy Hmelo-Silver
  Professor, Learning Sciences
  Director, Center for Research on Learning and Technology
  - Learning Sciences

• Erik Jacobson
  Assistant Professor, Mathematics Education
  

• Kyungbin Kwon
  Assistant Professor, Education
  

• Richard A Lesh
  Professor Emeritus, Education
  

• Adam V. Maltese
  Associate Professor, Science Education
  Adjunct Faculty, Geological Sciences
  - Learning about science, autonomy and achievement in science, eye tracking to study students' interpretation of data, scientific experiences and engagements.

• Kylie Peppler
  Associate Professor, Learning Sciences
  - Arts Education, Computation, Computer Science Ed, Constructionism, Constructionism Creativity, Design, DIY (Do It Yourself), E-Textiles, Gaming, Informal Learning, Interest-Driven Learning, Maker Culture, New Media, Scratch Programming

• Fritz Breithaupt
  Professor, Germanic Studies
  Adjunct Professor, Comparative Literature
  - Literature and cognitive science; empathy; narrative; German & European literature, philosophy, and culture since 1700; aesthetics; intellectual history of money, Goethe

• Michel Chaouli
  Associate Professor, Germanic Studies
  Adjunct Professor, Comparative Literature
  

• Rex Sprouse
  Professor, Germanic Studies
  Professor, Second Language Studies
  - Second language acquisition

• Jordi Cat
  Associate Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
  

• Amit Hagar
  Associate Professor, History and Philosophy of Science
  

• Elisabeth Lloyd
  Professor, History and Philosophy of Science
  Arnold and Maxine Tanis Chair, History and Philosophy of Science
  

• Katy Börner
  Victor H. Yngve Professor, Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing
  Adjunct Professor, Statistics
  - User modeling, information visualization, virtual reality interfaces, human computer interaction

• Ying Ding
  Associate Professor, Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing
  

• Hamid R. Ekbia
  Associate Professor, Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing
  Associate Professor, Cognitive Science
  Director, Center for Research on Mediated Interaction
  Departmental Liason to Cognitive Science, Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing
  

• John Paolillo
  Associate Professor, Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing
  Adjunct Associate Professor, Linguistics
  

• Frank Diaz
  Associate Professor, Music education
  

• Brian Gill
  Associate Professor, Jacobs School of Music
  

• Eric J. Isaacson
  Associate Professor, Music Theory
  - Music theory and cognition

• Marianne Kielian-Gilbert
  Professor, Music Theory
  - Temporal models of musical thought; perception, cognition, and music subjectivity

• Peter Miksza
  Associate Professor, Jacobs School of Music
  - Music education

• Kelly Berkson
  Assistant Professor, Linguistics
  

• Ann Bunger
  Lecturer, Lingustics
  - Language processing and acquisition, word learning, syntax-semantics interface, language and cognition

• Damir Cavar
  Associate Professor, Computational Linguistics
  

• Stuart Davis
  Professor, Linguistics
  - Phonology, optimality theory, general linguistics

• Kenneth de Jong
  Professor, Linguistics
  Professor, Cognitive Science
  Adjunct Professor, Second Language Studies
  - Expression of phonological structure

• Steven Franks
  Professor, Linguistics
  Professor, Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures
  Adjunct Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences
  - Syntactic theory and analysis

• Thomas Grano
  Assistant Professor, Lingustics
  - Natural language semantics

• Yoshihisa Kitagawa
  Professor, Linguistics
  - Syntactic theory; comparative syntax; morphology-syntax interaction; syntax-semantics mapping; Japanese linguistics; music theory and linguistic theory

• Sandra Kübler
  Associate Professor, Linguistics
  Departmental Liaison to Cognitive Science, Linguistics
  - Computational Linguistics, computational corpus linguistics, machine learning techniques in computational linguistics, natural language processing

• Frances Trix
  Professor, Linguistics
  Professor, Anthropology
  

• Lawrence S. Moss
  Professor, Mathematics
  Adjunct Professor, Computer Science
  Adjunct Professor, Informatics
  Adjunct Professor, Linguistics
  Adjunct Professor, Philosophy
  Departmental Liaison to Cognitive Science, Mathematics and Statistics
  - Applied Logic

• Jeffrey Evans Stake
  Robert A. Lucas Chair, Law
  Departmental Liason to Cognitive Science, Law
  

• Edward Castronova
  Professor, Department of Telecommunications
  

• Julia R. Fox
  Associate Professor, Telecommunications
  - Memories of media messages

• Annie Lang
  Distinguished Professor, Telecommunications
  Departmental Liason to Cognitive Science, Telecommunications
  - Mediated Message Processing

• Robert Potter
  Associate Professor, Telecommunications
  Director, Institute for Communication Research
  - Attention and cognitive processing of audio in media messages

• Andrew Weaver
  Associate Professor, Telecommunications
  - Media violence; Moral choice in video games; Race and selective exposure

• Gary Ebbs
  Chair, Department of Philosophy
  Professor, Philosophy
  

• Mark Kaplan
  Professor, Philosophy
  

• Adam Leite
  Associate Professor, Philosophy
  

• Kirk Ludwig
  Professor, Philosophy
  Departmental Liason to Cognitive Science, Philosophy
  - Philosophy of language, especially theories of meaning, truth and logical form in natural language; philosophy of mind; philosophy of action, especially collective action; epistemology.

• Tim O'Connor
  Professor, Philosophy
  - Metaphysics; philosophy of mind; reductionism and emergent properties

• Leah Savion
  Senior Lecturer, Philosophy
  - Logic; cognitive models of deductive reasoning and belief systems

• Fred Schmitt
  Professor, Philosophy
  

• Joan Weiner
  Professor, Philosophy
  

• John Beggs
  Associate Professor, Physics
  Member, The Biocomplexity Institute
  - Biophysics

• Jeffrey Hart
  Professor Emeritus, Political Science
  - Artificial intelligence applications in political science; the study of international politics; rule-based expert systems; neural networks

• Frederick Unverzagt
  Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
  Professor, Clinical Medical and Molecular Genetics
  - Clinical neuropsychology, memory, neurodegenerative diseases

• Bennett Bertenthal
  Rudy Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  

• Geoffrey P. Bingham
  Professor, Psychological And Brain Sciences
  - Event perception and action

• Joshua W. Brown
  Associate Professor, Psychological And Brain Sciences
  

• Jerome R. Busemeyer
  Provost Professor, Psychological And Brain Sciences
  - Dynamic, emotional, and cognitive models of judgment and decision making

• Thomas A. Busey
  Professor, Psychological And Brain Sciences
  Departmental Liason to Cognitive Science, Psychological And Brain Sciences
  - Mathematical modeling of visual perception

• Jim Craig
  Chancellor's Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  - Tactile pattern perception; selective attention, masking

• Jonathon Crystal
  Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  Director, Undergraduate Studies, Cognitive Science
  - Comparative Cognition, episodic memory, metacognition, time perception, circadian rhythms, learning and memory, disorders of memory (e.g., Alzheimer's)

• Preston E. Garraghty
  Professor, Psychological And Brain Sciences
  Professor, Neural Science
  - Electrophysiological, neuroanatomical, and neurochemical analyses of adult neural plasticity

• Jason Gold
  Associate Professor, Psychological And Brain Sciences
  - Visual perception

• Robert Goldstone
  Chancellor's Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  - Concept formation

• Julia R. Heiman
  Professor, Psychological And Brain Sciences
  Director, Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction
  

• William P. Hetrick
  Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  - Human cognitive neuroscience; temporal processing, attention, & learning; EEG and MRI neuroimaging techniques.

• Ed Hirt
  Professor, Psychological And Brain Sciences
  - Social cognition; reconstructive memory; judgment and decision making; affect and emotional influences on judgment, and motivation and creativity self-theory

• Karin Harman James
  Associate Professor, Psychology
  

• Thomas W. James
  Associate Professor, Psychological And Brain Sciences
  - Object recognition and representation

• Michael N. Jones
  Associate Professor, Cognitive Science
  Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  Associate Professor, Informatics & Computing
  

• Dan Kennedy
  Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  - Cognitive neuroscience; Social neuroscience; autism spectrum disorders; social perception; eye tracking; brain connectivity; functional MRI

• Anne Krendl
  Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  - Cognitive neuroscience; Social neuroscience; social cognition & aging; impression formation; stigma; stereotyping & prejudice; stereotype threat; functional MRI

• John K. Kruschke
  Professor, Psychological And Brain Sciences
  Adjunct Professor, Statistics
  - Bayesian and connectionist models, Bayesian statistics, attention in learning, optimal learning and teaching.

• David Landy
  Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  - Computational and theoretical approaches to formal reasoning, mathematical cognition and perception, numerical reasoning, distributed cognition

• Mary Murphy
  Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  - Social Psychology; Self and social identity threat; Stereotype threat; Stereotyping and prejudice; Intergroup dynamics; Interracial interaction and friendship; Organizational lay theories; Structural and psychological barriers for underrepresented groups

• Sharlene D. Newman
  Associate Professor, Psychological And Brain Sciences
  - fMRI Imaging of cortical networks

• Ehren Newman
  Assistant Professor, Psycholology
  - Neuroscience, Cognitive Science

• Robert M. Nosofsky
  Chancellor's Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  Distinguished Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  - Categorization

• Franco Pestilli
  Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  - Neuroimaging, neuroscience, vision science, cognitive science

• David B. Pisoni
  Chancellor's Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  Director, Speech Research Laboratory
  - Spoken word recognition

• Robert Joseph Rydell
  Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  

• Steven J. Sherman
  Chancellor's Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  - Information seeking and hypothesis testing strategies

• Richard M. Shiffrin
  Luther Dana Waterman Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  Distinguished Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  Distinguished Professor, Statistics
  - Models of memory

• Eliot R. Smith
  Chancellor's Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  - Connectionist models of social judgment and social behavior; implications of situated/embodied cognition for social psychology

• Linda B. Smith
  Distinguished Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  Chancellor's Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  Chair, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  - Dynamic systems

• Olaf Sporns
  Provost Professor, Psychological And Brain Sciences
  - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience

• Peter M. Todd
  Director, Cognitive Science Program
  Professor, Cognitive Science
  Professor, Informatics and Computing
  Provost Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  

• James T. Townsend
  Distinguished Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  Rudy Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  - Mathematical modeling

• Chen Yu
  Associate Professor, Cognitive Science
  Associate Professor, Cognitive Science
  Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  - Development and learning in humans and machines, machine intelligence.

• Yong-Yeol Ahn
  Assistant Professor, Informatics and Computing
  - Complex Networks and Systems, Data Mining, Web Science

• Randall D. Beer
  Provost Professor, Cognitive Science
  Provost Professor, School of Informatics and Computing
  - Embodied, situated and dynamical approaches to behavior and cognition, evolutionary robotics, computational neuroscience, theoretical biology

• Eli Blevis
  Associate Professor, Informatics and Computing
  

• Johan Bollen
  Associate Professor, Informatics and Computing
  - Usage data mining, computational sociometrics, informetrics, and adaptive information systems architectures.

• David J. Crandall
  Assistant Professor, Informatics and Computing
  - Computer vision, data mining, machine learning and social networks

• Santo Fortunato
  Professor, School of Informatics and Computing
  

• Eleftherios Garyfallidis
  Assistant Professor, School of Informatics and Computing
  Director, GARYFALLIDIS RESEARCH GROUP
  Professor, Intelligent Systems Engineering, Neuroengineering Track
  - Brain Mapping, Medical Imaging, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Scientific Visualization, Software Engineering

• Dennis P. Groth
  Associate Professor, Informatics
  Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies
  Interim Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Undergraduate Education
  - Information Visualization; Data Mining; Models of Interaction; Collaborative Discovery

• David B. Leake
  Professor, Computer Science
  Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs, School of Informatics and Computing
  - Case-based reasoning and goal-driven learning

• Michael A. McRobbie
  President, Indiana University
  Professor, Computer Science, Informatics and Philosophy
  Professor, Computer Technology, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology
  Adjunct Professor, Cognitive Science
  Adjunct Professor, Information Science
  Vice President, Research
  - Artificial Intelligence

• Filippo Menczer
  Professor, Informatics
  Professor, Computer Science
  Director, Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research
  Adjunct Professor, Physics
  Member, Cognitive Science Program
  - Agent based models and algorithms, complex ecological, social, and virtual environments, adaptive behavior, intelligent agents, evolutionary computation, machine learning, and neural networks

• Jonathan W. Mills
  Associate Professor, Computer Science
  - Logic as a computational paradigm

• Staša Milojević
  Assistant Professor, School of Informatics and Computing
  - Scientometrics; informetrics; information science; computational social science

• Paul Purdom
  Professor, Computer Science
  - Analysis of algorithms, computational biology, machine translation, term rewriting, game playing

• Christopher Raphael
  Professor, Informatics
  Adjunct Professor, Cognitive Science
  Adjunct Professor, Music Theory
  Adjunct Professor, Statistics
  - Music informatics

• Gregory J. E. Rawlins
  Associate Professor, Computer Science
  - Genetic algorithms

• Luis M. Rocha
  Professor, Informatics
  Professor, Computer Science
  - Complex systems modeling, distributed artificial intelligence and artificial life, computational and mathematical biology, adaptive agents, information retrieval, data mining, and uncertainty modeling

• Selma Sabanovic
  Assistant Professor, Informatics and Computing
  Departmental Liaison to Cognitive Science, Informatics and Computing
  - Human-robot interaction, social interaction, culture, nonverbal communication

• Chung-chieh Shan
  Assistant Professor, School of Informatics and Computing
  - Artificial Intelligence, Compilers, Programming Languages, Programming Language Principles, Design, and Implementation

• Marty Siegel
  Professor, Informatics
  

• Erik Stolterman
  Professor, Informatics and Computing
  

• Dirk Van Gucht
  Professor, Computer Science
  - Database systems; applied logic

• Hui Zhang
  Adjunct Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science
  Senior Research Analyst/Programmer, Advanced Visualization Lab
  

• Karen Iler Kirk
  Adjunct Professor, Otolaryngology
  Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences
  - Speech perception and production

• Arthur Bradley
  Professor, Optometry
  - Visual processing

• Rowan Candy
  Associate Professor, Optometry
  Departmental Liason to Cognitive Science, Optometry
  - Development of the visual system and visual function

• Nicholas Port
  Assistant Professor, Optometry
  

• Larry N. Thibos
  Professor Emeritus, Optometry
  - Visual information processing

• Shahzeen Z. Attari
  Assistant Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
  Departmental Liason to Cognitive Science, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
  - Energy policy, energy efficiency and conservation, behavioral economics, social dilemmas, risk communication, and sustainable development

• Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig
  Professor, Second Language Studies
  Chair, Second Language Studies
  

• Isabelle Darcy
  Associate Professor, Second Language Studies
  Adjunct Faculty, Linguistics
  Member, Cognitive Science Program
  - Psycholinguistics, phonology, native and non-native speech processing, word recognition, first and second language acquisition of phonology, foreign accent.

• Laurent Dekydtspotter
  Professor, Second Language Studies
  Professor, French and Italian
  - Development of interpretive knowledge: phrasal semantics, lexical semantics and grammatically computed pragmatic inferences. Sentence processing: information integration in L2 processing

• David Stringer
  Associate Professor, Second Language Studies
  Adjunct Professor, Linguistics
  Departmental Liason to Cognitive Science, Second Language Studies
  - First and second language acquisition; generative syntax and morphology; lexical and conceptual semantics; language and space

• Yucel Yilmaz
  Assistant Professor, Second Language Studies
  - Second language studies; Second language instruction; negative feedback; computer-mediated communication and instruction; task-based language teaching; individual differences in second language acquisition; explicit and implicit learning processes

• Julie Anderson
  Associate Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences
  - Fluency disorders (stuttering), psycholinguistics, cognitive processes (executive function and attention), and personality development (temperament)

• Raquel Anderson
  Professor, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
  - Child bilingualism/second language acquisition, grammatical skill in Spanish-speaking children with SLI, language skill assessment in dual language learners

• Tessa Bent
  Assistant Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences
  - Perception and production of foreign-accented speech, speech intelligibility, perceptual learning, hearing loss and cochlear implants

• Phil Connell
  Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences
  Adjunct Professor, Linguistics
  - Acquisition of language by children; language comprehension; impairments of language; clinical microcomputer techniques

• Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe
  Associate Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences
  Adjunct Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
  Departmental Liason to Cognitive Science, Speech and Hearing Sciences
  - Language acquisition, infant communication, cognitive development, lexical processing, word finding difficulties

• Judith Gierut
  Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences
  - Phonological acquisition

• Larry Humes
  Distinguished Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences
  - Auditory perception

• Gary Kidd
  Associate Scientist, Speech and Hearing Sciences
  - Auditory perception

• Jennifer Lentz
  Associate Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences
  

• Steven Lulich
  Assistant Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences
  - Speech sciences

• Laura Murray
  Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences
  Professor, Neural Science
  - Acquired neurogenic cognitive and communicative disorders

• Rita Patel
  Assistant Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences
  - Speech sciences

• Yi Shen
  Assistant Professor, Audiology
  - Auditory perception, psychoacoustics, auditory psychophysics, auditory attention, auditory temporal processing, and auditory scene analysis

• Mandy Mejia
  Assistant Professor, Statistics
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• Michael W. Trosset
  Professor, Statistics
  - Computational statistics, statistical learning, multidimensional scaling, nonlinear dimension reduction, classification, clustering