Cognitive Science Faculty

• Core Faculty
  Faculty	Bio	Interests	Contact
  Faculty	Bio Susan Brennan Professor, Cognitive Science Director of the Cognitive Science Program	InterestsLanguage use and processing in communication; psycholinguistics; multi-modal dialogue; human-AI interaction.	Contact susan.brennan@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-322 Phone: (631) 632-9145
  Faculty	Bio Richard Gerrig Professor, Cognitive Science Director of Graduate Studies	Interests Psycholinguistics, especially the implications of non-conventional language for theories of language processing  and processes that give rise to and that follow from readers' experiences of being transported by narratives.	Contact richard.gerrig@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-201 Phone: (631) 632-7847
  Faculty	Bio Suparna Rajaram Distinguished Professor, Cognitive Science Director of Graduate Studies	InterestsMemory, amnesia, cognitive neuroscience, recollective experience, memory in the social context.	Contact suparna.rajaram@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-252 Phone: (631) 632-7841
  Faculty	Bio Lauren Richmond Associate Professor, Cognitive Science	InterestsEveryday cognition, cognitive aging, individual differences, working memory, aging, intervention.	Contact lauren.richmond@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-342 Phone: (631) 632-7832
  Faculty	Bio Gregory Zelinsky Professor, Cognitive Science Joint Associate Professor, Computer Science	InterestsVisual cognition (attention, search, scene perception, and visual working memory), with emphasis on the behavioral and computational study of eye movements in visual search.	Contact gregory.zelinsky@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-240 Phone: (631) 632-7827

• Affiliated Faculty
  Faculty	Bio	Interests	Contact
  Faculty	Bio Marie Huffman Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics	InterestsPhonetics, including howfine details of pronunciation are affected by linguistic structure and communicative context. Her recent research addresses how speakers adapt pronunciation due to partnerlanguage/dialect and communicative setting and how the sound systems of L1 and L2 interact in adult language learners.	Contact Email:   marie.huffman@stonybrook.edu
  Faculty	Bio Jared Van Snellenberg Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology	Interests Neural mechanisms of psychosis (hallucinations and delusions); working memory and cognitive control; memory impairment in schizophrenia; functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) methods development; resting state functional connectivity; multiband (simultaneous multi-slice) fMRI; multimodal imaging (MRI, PET, MRS, EEG, etc.); back-translational clinical neuroscience; meta-analysis; linear modeling.	Contact Jared.VanSnellenberg@stonybrookmedicine.edu HSC Level 10 Room 041H Phone: (631) 638-0064

• Research Faculty
  Faculty	Bio	Interests	Contact
  Faculty	Bio Arthur Samuel Research Professor, Cognitive Science	InterestsPerception, language, attention, and memory.  The majority of his research in the last two decades has investigated  both bottom-up and top-down processes in speech recognition.	Contact arthur.samuel@stonybrook.edu Psychology A-240 Phone: (631) 632-7792

• Emeritus Faculty
  Faculty	Bio	Interests
  Faculty	Bio Nancy Franklin Emerita Professor, Cognitive Science	InterestsMemory and memory errors, including applications to the criminal justice system. Dr. Franklin regularly serves as an expert witness, both for current trials and post-conviction cases, on the reliability of eyewitness identification and memory.