Department of Psychology

Cognitive Science Faculty

• Core Faculty

  Faculty	Bio	Interests	Contact
  	Susan Brennan Professor, Cognitive Science	Language use and processing in communicative contexts; psycholinguistics; coordination in dialogue; collaborative cognition; human-computer interaction.	susan.brennan@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-322 Phone: (631) 632-9145
  	Nancy Franklin Associate Professor, Cognitive Science	False memory, metacognitive assessments of one's own memory, situation models.	nancy.franklin@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-338 Phone: (631) 632-7840
  	Richard Gerrig Professor, Cognitive Science Interim Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Education	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.	richard.gerrig@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-201 Phone: (631) 632-7847
  	Christian Luhmann Associate Professor, Cognitive Science	High-level cognition; causal and associative learning, probabilistic reasoning, economic and perceptual decision making, neuroimaging and computational modeling.	christian.luhmann@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-250 Phone: (631) 632-7086
  	Suparna Rajaram Distinguished Professor, Cognitive Science Director of Graduate Studies	Memory, amnesia, cognitive neuroscience, recollective experience, memory in the social context.	suparna.rajaram@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-252 Phone: (631) 632-7841
  	Lauren Richmond Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science	Everyday cognition, individual differences, working memory, aging, intervention.	lauren.richmond@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-342 Phone: (631) 632-7832
  	Arthur Samuel Distinguished Professor, Cognitive Science Director of the Cognitive Science Program	Perception, 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.	arthur.samuel@stonybrook.edu Psychology A-240 Phone: (631) 632-7792
  	Gregory Zelinsky Professor, Cognitive Science Joint Associate Professor, Computer Science	Visual cognition (attention, search, scene perception, and visual working memory), with emphasis on the behavioral and computational study of eye movements in visual search.	gregory.zelinsky@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-240 Phone: (631) 632-7827

• Affiliated Faculty

  Faculty	Bio	Interests	Contact
  	Jared Van Snellenberg Assistant Professor,   Cognitive Science Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology	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.	Jared.VanSnellenberg@stonybrookmedicine.edu HSC Level 10 Room 041H Phone: (631) 638-0064

• Research Faculty

  Faculty	Bio	Interests	Contact
  	Howard Rachlin Research Professor: Emeritus Distinguished Professor	Studying choice and  decision-making in humans and non-humans with the aim of understanding the psychological and economic basis of self-control, addiction, social cooperation, and altruism.	howard.rachlin@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-146 Phone: (631) 632-7807

• Emeritus Faculty

  David Cross

  David Emmerich

  Marvin Levine