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| Name | Title | Department | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gerry Altmann | Professor | Psychological Sciences | Adult language processing, the influence of context on sentence comprehension, event comprehension, the interface between language and vision |
| Dorit Bar-On | Professor | Philosophy | Philosophy of language and mind; origins of language; theory of mind; pragmatics/semantics |
| Eva Bar-Shalom | Associate Research Professor | Linguistics | Language Acquisition, Slavic Linguistics, Bilingualism and Language Attrition |
| Thomas Bontly | Associate Professor | Philosophy | Philosophy of mind, philosophy of science |
| Zeljko Boskovic | Professor | Linguistics | Linguistics (Syntax) |
| Lindsay Butler | Assistant Professor | Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences | Language, Autism, Neuroimaging using functional near-infrared spectroscopy |
| Andrea Calabrese | Professor | Linguistics | Phonological theory, Historical Linguistics, Romance Linguistics |
| John Christensen | Associate Professor | Communication | Artificial Intelligence, Algorithm Aversion, Identity Threat, AI Anxiety, Mental Health |
| James Chrobak | Professor and Associate Department Head | Psychological Sciences | Making memories in the mammalian brain; the physiology and function of the hippocampus and interconnected forebrain circuits |
| Marie Coppola | Associate Professor | Psychological Sciences | Language emergence, homesign, cognitive development, number cognition, sign language structure, language acquisition |
| Kimberly Cuevas | Associate Professor | Psychological Sciences | Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: EEG, ECG, Learning, Memory, Executive Functions |
| James Dixon | Professor | Psychological Sciences | Self-organization in perception, action, and cognition; hermodynamic origins of behavior; complex behavior in non-living dissipative systems; Fractal and multi fractal analysis |
| Damir Dzhafarov | Associate Professor | Mathematics | Mathematical logic, computability theory and reverse mathematics |
| Inge-Marie Eigsti | Professor | Psychological Sciences | human cognition, and how brain development and core neurocognitive processes impact language acquisition |
| Deborah Fein | Professor Emeritus | Psychological Sciences | Effectiveness of using the M-CHAT-R to screen for ASD and other developmental delays; understanding the factors that contribute to better outcomes for children with ASD. |
| Holly Fitch | Professor | Psychological Sciences | Animal models of neurodevelopment and cognition; Models of neurodevelopmental disruption (genetics, early injury) and developmental disability |
| Carol Fowler | Professor Emeritus | Psychological Sciences | Ecology of language, speech perception from a direct-realist theoretical perspective; compatible theoretical approach to speech perception |
| Jon Gajewski | Associate Professor | Linguistics | Semantics |
| Adrian Garcia-Sierra | Associate Professor | Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences | Speech perception, language development, bilingualism, ERPs |
| James Green | Professor Emeritus | Psychological Sciences | Development of prelinguistic communication |
| Mitchell Green | Professor | Philosophy | Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Pragmatics, Evolution of Communication, Animal Communication |
| Bernard Grela | Associate Professor | Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences | SLI, language disorders, reading disabilities, phonological disorders |
| Gwen Gustafson | Professor Emeritus | Psychological Sciences | social and communicative behavior, infant development, development of caregiving behavior |
| Fumiko Hoeft | Waterbury Campus Director | Psychological Sciences | Brain development, Neuroimaging, Individual differences, Literacy acquisition, Dyslexia |
| Patrick Hogan | Distinguished Professor | English | Emotion, simulation, and narrative; beauty and aesthetic response; social neuroscience, politics, and literature |
| James Kaufman | Professor | Educational Psychology | Creativity measurement; Creativity and social justice; Creativity and its relationship to other constructs (such as personality, intelligence, and motivation); Creativity theories; and Creativity and Mental Health |
| Magdalena Kaufmann | Associate Professor | Linguistics | Semantics, pragmatics, syntax-semantics interface |
| Stefan Kaufmann | Associate Professor | Linguistics | Semantics, Pragmatics, Computational Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Cognitive Psychology |
| Arielle Keller | Assistant Professor | Psychological Sciences | Understanding attention as a core element of human cognition by bridging ideas and perspectives across cognitive, clinical, computational, and developmental neuroscience. |
| Ally Ladha | Associate Professor | Literatures, Cultures, & Languages | Philosophy and literature; aesthetics; literary theory; postcolonial studies; poetry (19th and 20th century French, francophone African, American, British, Latin American); Islamic studies (pre-Islamic poetry; Quranic studies; art and aesthetics; Islamic legal and political theory; African Islam); German romanticism |
| Nicole Landi | Associate Professor | Psychological Sciences | Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurogenetic Approaches |
| Edward Large | Professor | Psychological Sciences | Auditory Neuroscience, Dynamic Systems |
| Remy Levin | Assistant Professor | Economics | Understanding how individual risk preferences evolve over time, and how they are affected by experiences of risk like macroeconomic fluctuations and climate change. |
| Diane Lillo-Martin | Professor and Department Head | Linguistics | Monolingual and Bilingual First Language Acquisition, Structure and Acquisition of American Sign Language |
| Michael Lynch | Professor | Philosophy | Representation, philosophy of mind |
| Akshay Maggu | Assistant Professor | Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences | The effect of short-term (e.g., auditory training) and long-term (e.g., language) auditory experiences on typical and atypical central auditory nervous systems. |
| James Magnuson | Professor | Psychological Sciences | Cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience of language; computational modeling |
| Kevin Manning | Associate Professor | Psychiatry | Aging, cognition, depression, everyday functional performance (e.g., automobile driving, financial decision-making). |
| Etan Markus | Professor and Associate Department Head | Psychological Sciences | Behavioral neuroscience, physiology, learning, memory aging |
| Kerry Marsh | Professor | Psychological Sciences | Motivational influences on persuasion, social cognition, and behaviour |
| Robert McCartney | Professor Emeritus | Computer Science and Engineering | Artificial intelligence, robotics, computing education |
| Ruth Millikan | Professor Emeritus | Philosophy | Philosophy of Mind, philosophy of science |
| Andrew Moiseff | Professor and Associate Dean | Physiology & Neurobiology | Understanding of the neural mechanisms controlling communication behavior |
| Jennifer Mozeiko | Assistant Professor | Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences | Aphasia rehabilitation, discourse deficits following brain injury, mechanisms for recovery in chronic aphasia, functional neuroimaging. |
| Emily Myers | Professor | Psychological Sciences | Speech perception, cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, aphasia |
| Letitia Naigles | Professor | Psychological Sciences | Language representation, language acquisition, language in developmental disorders, cross-linguistic comparisons |
| Kristine Nowak | Professor | Communication | Person perception, identity, persuasion, and information processing, and how these processes are influenced by the way the message is presented, with particular attention to how these processes change with the use of social media and new technologies |
| Alexandra Paxton | Assistant Professor | Psychological Sciences | dynamics of interaction and social behavior; data-rich research methods; naturally occurring datasets and "big data"; ethics of human-derived data |
| Jeremy Pressman | Associate Professor | Political Science | Foreign policy decision-making, Middle East Studies |
| Nairan Ramirez-Esparza | Associate Professor | Psychological Sciences | How culture and language influences personality, behavior, and health using multiple methodological approaches, including digital recording devices, text analytic tools, and brain measures. |
| Heather Read | Professor | Psychological Sciences | Behavioral neuroscience of social communication including vocalizations |
| Jay Rueckl | Professor | Psychological Sciences | Reading, word identification, and morphology, Implicit and explicit memory, Connectionist networks and dynamical systems |
| John Salamone | Distinguished Professor | Psychological Sciences | Neurochemistry and Behavior |
| Mikhael Shor | Associate Professor | Economics | Industrial organization & antitrust, experimental economics, auction theory |
| Erika Skoe | Speech Language & Hearing Sciences | The influence of enriched or impoverished experiences on linguistic and cognitive function | |
| William Snyder | Professor | Linguistics | Child Language Acquisition, Comparative Grammar, Models of Language Processing |
| Tammie Spaulding | Associate Professor | Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences | Language development; Specific Language Impairment |
| Adrian Stegovec | Assistant Professor | Linguistics | syntax, linguistic typology, linguistic variation, syntax-semantics interface |
| Ian Stevenson | Associate Professor | Psychological Sciences | Computational Neuroscience, Statistical Analysis of Neural Data, Adaptation and Plasticity |
| Umay Suanda | Assistant Professor | Psychological Sciences | Early cognitive, social, and language development, word learning, caregiver-toddler communication. |
| Whit Tabor | Associate Professor | Psychological Sciences | Dynamical systems theory, artificial neural networks, language (structure, processing, change, learning), sentence processing, artificial grammar, recursion, experimental semiotics, theory of computation. |
| Rachel Theodore | Associate Professor | Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences | Speech perception, spoken language processing, perceptual learning, dyslexia, hearing impairment |
| Evelyn Tribble | Professor | English | Shakespeare, performance, memory, and skill. |
| Eduardo Urios-Aparisi | Associate Professor | Literatures, Cultures, & Languages | Cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor theory applied to cinema and art |
| Harry van der Hulst | Professor | Linguistics | Phonological Theory, SL Phonology, Evolution of Language, Phonological Acquisition, Phonetics-Phonology Interface |
| Manuela Wagner | Professor | Literatures, Cultures, & Languages | Early language development in “normal” and “exceptional” circumstances, second language acquisition, pragmatics, brain development |
| Dimitris Xygalatas | Associate Professor | Anthropology | Ritual, cooperation, and the interaction between cognition and culture |
| Eiling Yee | Associate Professor | Psychological Sciences | Semantic memory/neural representation of concepts; spoken word recognition |
| Na Zhang | Assistant Professor | Human Development & Family Sciences | the application of mindfulness interventions in diverse family contexts including divorced families, bereaved families, and multigenerational families. |