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Anthropology- Kevin Hunt
Professor, Anthropology
Adjunct Professor, Biology
- Human Origins and Primate Evolution
- 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
Biology- Greg Demas
Professor, Biology
Associate Chair for Research, Biology
- Evolution, Ecology & Behavior
- Laura Hurley
Associate Professor, Biology
Departmental Liason to Cognitive Science, Biology
- Armin P. Moczek
Associate Professor, Biology
Associate Professor, Indiana Molecular Biology Institute
Associate Professor, Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior
College of Arts and Sciences- 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
East Asian Languages and Cultures- 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
Economics- Arlington Williams
Professor, Economics
- Experimental economics and decision making; predictive models of individual and aggregate behavior
Education- 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.
- 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
- 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
GeographyGermanic Studies- 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
History and Philosophy of Science- 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
Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing- 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
Jacobs School of Music- Brian Gill
Associate Professor, Jacobs School of Music
- 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
Kinsey InstituteLinguistics- 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
Mathematics- 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
Maurer School of LawMedia School- 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
Philosophy- Gary Ebbs
Chair, Department of Philosophy
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
Physics- John Beggs
Associate Professor, Physics
Member, The Biocomplexity Institute
- Biophysics
Political Science- Jeffrey Hart
Professor Emeritus, Political Science
- Artificial intelligence applications in political science; the study of international politics; rule-based expert systems; neural networks
Psychiatry- Frederick Unverzagt
Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Professor, Clinical Medical and Molecular Genetics
- Clinical neuropsychology, memory, neurodegenerative diseases
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
- 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
- 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.
School of Informatics and Computing- 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
- 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
- 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
- Dirk Van Gucht
Professor, Computer Science
- Database systems; applied logic
- Hui Zhang
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science
Senior Research Analyst/Programmer, Advanced Visualization Lab
School of Medicine- Karen Iler Kirk
Adjunct Professor, Otolaryngology
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences
- Speech perception and production
School of Optometry- Rowan Candy
Associate Professor, Optometry
Departmental Liason to Cognitive Science, Optometry
- Development of the visual system and visual function
- Larry N. Thibos
Professor Emeritus, Optometry
- Visual information processing
School of Public and Environmental Affairs- 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
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
Speech and Hearing Sciences- 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
- 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
Statistics- Michael W. Trosset
Professor, Statistics
- Computational statistics, statistical learning, multidimensional scaling, nonlinear dimension reduction, classification, clustering