جست‌وجوی استاد و پژوهشگر

Josefa Pandeiradaمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر

• Evolutionary Psychology
• Cognitive Psychology
• Adaptive Memory
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Josefa Pandeirada is an Integrated Member of the Cognition Team at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, specializing in evolutionary approaches to human memory. Her research investigates how memory functions as an adaptation to solve evolutionarily relevant problems through phenomena such as the survival processing effect, animacy effect, and contamination effect. Her primary research focuses on the Adaptive Memory Framework , which examines memory enhancements in contexts critical to ancestral survival including threat detection (contamination avoidance), social dynamics (animate object prioritization), and reproductive success. She employs experimental methodologies like eye-tracking and pupillometry to document superior retention of evolutionarily relevant information. Recent publications (2020-2023) demonstrate continued innovation in extending the animacy effect to prospective memory, analyzing disgust responses through physiological measures, and establishing cross-demographic face attractiveness norms. Her work bridges cognitive psychology with evolutionary theory, revealing how memory mechanisms reflect ancestral environmental pressures. Dr. Pandeirada maintains active research profiles through CiênciaVitae, ORCID, and ResearchGate, with institutional affiliation confirmed by her ua.pt email address. She collaborates extensively with researchers including Nairne, Fernandes, and Vasconcelos within the Cognition Team framework.

Amy Schaferمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Psycholinguistics
• Spoken Language Processing
• Prosody and Intonation
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Amy Schafer is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her research focuses on psycholinguistics, spoken language processing, and the interplay between prosody/intonation and information structure (e.g., given, new, and focused information). She investigates these phenomena across adult, child, native, non-native, and bilingual populations, primarily in English, Korean, Japanese, and Austronesian languages. Education: PhD, University of Massachusetts–Amherst Her research extends to field psycholinguistics, particularly through the HALA Project, which examines early signs of language endangerment and attrition in heritage speakers. She co-founded the College of LLL’s Language Analysis and Experimentation Laboratories (LAE Labs) in 2001, providing facilities for experimental tasks like eye-tracking and discourse processing. Currently, she explores prosody, event structure, and referential processing in Japanese- and Korean-speaking English learners. Professor Schafer teaches courses such as LING 412 (Introduction to Psycholinguistics), LING 640Y (Graduate Psycholinguistics), LING 632 (Experimental Methods), and seminars on psycholinguistics and eye-tracking methods.

• Cognitive Neuroscience of Language
• Auditory Phonetics
• Neurophonology
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Carsten Eulitz is a Professor for General Linguistics/Neurolinguistics at the University of Konstanz's Department of Linguistics. He holds leadership roles including Head of the Department of Linguistics (since 2018), former Vice-Rector for Academics (2007–2009), and has served on numerous university committees. His research focuses on the cognitive neuroscience of language, particularly auditory phonetics, neurophonology, and the neurobiological basis of language processing using EEG, MEG, and fMRI. He explores lexical representation, speech perception, and syntactic/semantic integration in both healthy and clinical populations. Education includes a Habilitation in Psychology (University of Konstanz, 1999), an M.D. from Humboldt University (1991), and postdoctoral training in neuropsychiatry and experimental audiology. His work investigates how language processing is organized in the brain, with studies on morphological complexity, prosody, and bilingualism. Key contributions include insights into the underspecification of phonological features in lexical representations and neural mechanisms underlying speech comprehension. His articles (e.g., on ERP and MEG studies, semantic decomposition in compounds) reveal a focus on neural correlates of linguistic structure and real-time processing. Awards section remains empty as none were explicitly mentioned. He has advised no listed students, but his roles in academic leadership and research centers (e.g., Lurija Institute of Rehabilitation Science) indicate involvement in training and institutional development.

Miranda Scolariمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Visual Selective Attention
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Perceptual Processing
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Miranda Scolari is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Texas Tech University, where she leads the Selective Attention & Perception (SAP) Lab. Her research focuses on the neural mechanisms of visual selective attention and its perceptual and behavioral consequences. Dr. Scolari's primary research interests include visual selective attention, neural mechanisms of attention, perceptual processing, and interactions between attention and other cognitive processes. She employs fMRI, TMS, and behavioral methods to investigate how the human visual system functions as a limited-capacity processor that must select important information while ignoring irrelevant clutter. Her work particularly examines how attentional mechanisms recruit brain regions that process visual input to facilitate behavioral goals. Her recent publications reveal consistent research themes in object-based attention, space-based attention, feature-based attention, and the role of pupil size as an indicator of attentional processes. Her work has appeared in leading journals including Attention, Perception & Psychophysics , Journal of Vision , and Journal of Neuroscience . Dr. Scolari has received competitive research grants from the Psychological Sciences department to support dissertation research. She has successfully mentored several PhD students including Sean O'Bryan (first PhD graduate from her lab), Winson Yang, Ema Bidiwala, and Guangsheng Liang. Her lab has produced numerous publications on attentional mechanisms, visual perception, and cognitive neuroscience. Her lab, the Selective Attention & Perception Lab, explores the functions and limitations of the human visual system when faced with perceptual challenges in natural environments that contain visual input exceeding processing capacities.

Allison E Jackمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Autism spectrum disorders
• fMRI
• Cerebellum
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Dr. Allison Jack is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at George Mason University, specializing in neurodevelopmental disorders with a focus on autism spectrum disorders. Her research employs fMRI, behavioral analysis, and genetic approaches to investigate social perception differences, particularly in understudied populations such as autistic girls and women. Her education includes postdoctoral training at Yale University's Child Study Center, a PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Virginia, and dual BAs in Psychology and English from the College of William & Mary. Research interests center on autism etiology, cerebellar contributions to social learning, neural responses to social stimuli, sex differences in ASD manifestation, and developing predictive models for treatment outcomes. Current projects examine cerebellar function in autistic adolescents and elevated autistic traits in women/nonbinary individuals. Publications consistently focus on neuroimaging approaches to autism, with recurring themes in cerebellar function, oxytocin pathways, and demographic representation in ASD research. Awards include: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award James Hudson Brown-Alexander B. Coxe Postdoctoral Fellowship She anticipates accepting graduate students with emphasis on neurodiverse applicants. Teaches PSYC 313 (Child Development) and PSYC 100 (Basic Concepts in Psychology).

Andrea Heberleinمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس ارشد

• Social Psychology
• Mind Perception
• Doctor-Patient Interaction
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Andrea Heberlein serves as a Distinguished Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at Boston College. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and teaches undergraduate courses including Science of Emotion, Self, Mind, & Society, Social Psychology, and Research Practicum in Social and Cognitive Methods from her office in McGuinn Hall 306. Her academic credentials include: Ph.D., University of Iowa Dr. Heberlein's research centers on situational influences on mind perception (how humans attribute mental states to others) and the social psychology of doctor-patient interactions. This work bridges social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and clinical applications to investigate implicit bias, emotion recognition, and social cognition, with direct implications for mental health care delivery and medical communication. Her publication trajectory reveals a shift from foundational neuroscience studies on emotion recognition and brain structures (amygdala, prefrontal cortex) in the 2000s toward contemporary investigations of implicit bias in healthcare settings. Recent work emphasizes empathic nonverbal behavior in medical contexts and systemic disparities in mental health care, demonstrating consistent translation of basic social cognitive research into real-world clinical applications.

David Rakisonمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Developmental Psychology
• Computational Modeling
• Cognitive Development
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David Rakison is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. His research focuses on infant perception, conceptual development, and causal reasoning, combining behavioral methodologies with computational modeling. He investigates how infants categorize objects, understand motion properties, and develop concepts through action and perception. Research Interests: Developmental Psychology: Studying early cognitive and perceptual development. Computational Modeling: Building frameworks to understand infant learning mechanisms. Causal Reasoning: Exploring how infants infer causality and animacy from dynamic events. Evolutionary Perspectives: Examining evolved detection mechanisms for threats like snakes and spiders. Recent work emphasizes developmental cascades—a theoretical framework to explain cumulative cognitive changes in infancy. His lab also investigates autism's impact on conceptual development and compares it with typically developing infants. Awards & Grants: None explicitly listed in the provided materials. Labs & Collaborations: Rakison leads a research lab focused on infant cognition, integrating experimental and computational approaches to understand foundational concepts in early childhood.

Tao Gaoمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Human Social Perception
• Cognitive Modeling
• Artificial Intelligence
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Tao Gao is an Associate Professor jointly appointed in the Department of Communication and Department of Statistics at UCLA. His research focuses on human social perception and cognition, aiming to reverse-engineer human social commonsense to inform AI development. He holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Yale University, followed by postdoctoral work at MIT's Center for Brain, Mind, and Machine, and prior roles at GE Global Research. Education: Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology (Yale University), Postdoctoral Fellowship at MIT's CBMM, and Research Scientist at GE Global Research. Research Interests: Human animacy perception, theory of mind, AI commonsense, and human-AI collaboration. His interdisciplinary work combines cognitive science, AI, robotics, and computer vision to model how humans perceive intentions, beliefs, and social concepts, and translate these insights into computational systems. Recent Articles: Focus on intentional commitment, cooperative communication, animacy perception, and multi-agent systems. His work explores how social cognition principles can improve AI's trustworthiness and collaboration with humans. Advising & Grants: No student advisees listed; active in research labs and collaborations with industry/academia. Current projects emphasize cognitive-inspired AI and socially intelligent robots. Labs/Teams: Previously affiliated with GE's Computer Vision and Machine Learning labs. At UCLA, contributes to interdisciplinary efforts in communication and statistical AI.

• Social Neuroscience
• Social Perception
• Decision Making
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Johannes Schultz is an Assistant Professor at the University of Bonn's Institute for Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research and Acting Director of the Center for Economics and Neuroscience. He investigates social perception and decision-making using neuroimaging and behavioral methods. His work examines how the brain processes animacy, social cues, and economic choices, with applications in schizophrenia research. Key research areas include neural mechanisms of social avoidance, animacy perception from visual motion, and metacognition in clinical populations. He employs fMRI, psychophysics, and economic task paradigms to study subcortical and cortical networks. Selected publications analyze: Animacy's role in behavior prediction (2022) Metacognition in schizophrenia (2022) Subcortical networks for social avoidance (2019) Intraparietal sulcus in animacy perception (2019)

Melissa Kibbeمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Cognitive Development
• Working Memory
• Object Representation
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Melissa Kibbe is an Associate Professor at Boston University and Director of the Developing Minds Lab. Her research explores how infants, children, and adults process and represent information about objects, focusing on perceptual features, animacy, numerosity, and verbal labels. She investigates cognitive systems like working memory, attention, and decision-making through behavioral and computational methods. Kibbe holds a PhD from Rutgers University. Key research interests include non-symbolic arithmetic in young children, object representation limits in infants, and social categorization strategies. Her work bridges developmental psychology and cognitive science, emphasizing memory-guided planning and the interplay between perception and cognition. Recent studies examine how children reason with mutually exclusive possibilities and the role of socio-economic factors in executive function. Publications highlight topics like episodic-like memory in infancy, catastrophic object representation failures, and the development of precision in arithmetic operations. Kibbe’s lab, the Developing Minds Lab, explores these themes through experimental and computational approaches.

Marina Bednyمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Brain development and plasticity
• Cognitive neuroscience
• Conceptual development
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Marina Bedny is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University’s Krieger School of Arts & Sciences. Her research focuses on neuroplasticity and cognitive development, particularly how sensory experience shapes brain organization and conceptual understanding. Her lab investigates cortical plasticity in blind individuals, studying how 'visual' cortex regions repurpose for language, mathematics, and executive functions. She also examines conceptual development, exploring how blind and sighted individuals form abstract concepts like sight-related verbs or light phenomena. Key research themes include: Cortical Plasticity: Functional reorganization of occipital cortex in blindness, including cross-modal processing and executive control functions. Conceptual Development: Role of sensory experience in forming knowledge about events (e.g., 'sparkling'), objects, and mental states. Developmental Mechanisms: Sensitive periods for neural specialization and the interplay between genes and environment. Her lab’s recent work highlights functional flexibility in developing cortex, with studies demonstrating that visual deprivation leads to recruitment of occipital areas for higher-order cognition. Collaborative projects explore Braille reading neurobiology and computational models of semantic processing. Bedny mentors graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience, with active programs for undergraduate research assistants and blind/visually impaired summer interns. Lab activities include: Summer research internships for blind/visually impaired students Undergraduate research assistantships (10+ hours/week commitment) Collaborations on neuroimaging (fMRI) and behavioral experiments Bedny’s research has been published in Cerebral Cortex , Cognition , and NeuroImage , with a focus on bridging philosophical questions about the human mind with empirical neuroscience methods.

Jelena Mirkovicمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Psychology of Language Learning
• Cognitive Mechanisms
• Neural Mechanisms
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Dr. Jelena Mirkovic is an Associate Professor and REF Unit of Assessment Lead at York St John University's School of Education, Language and Psychology. She specializes in the psychology of language learning and use, with expertise in cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying linguistic abilities. Education: PhD in Psychology from University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA MSc in Psychology from University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA BSc in Psychology from University of Belgrade, Serbia Dr. Mirkovic's research focuses on how language learning and use are supported by domain-general learning and memory mechanisms. She employs behavioral studies and computational modeling approaches to investigate these questions in both adults and children. Her work bridges cognitive psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience to understand the fundamental processes of language acquisition and processing. Her publication record reveals a consistent trajectory examining cognitive mechanisms in language processing, particularly memory systems, grammatical processing, and semantic-syntactic interactions. She frequently employs cross-linguistic and developmental perspectives to uncover universal principles of language cognition, with significant contributions to understanding how sleep affects language consolidation and how children process complex linguistic structures. Scientific Contributions: Extensive publication record in top cognitive science and psychology journals including Cognition, Cognitive Science, and Journal of Memory and Language Editor of the influential volume 'Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition' (2016) Development of computational models explaining language learning mechanisms As a Postgraduate Research Supervisor, Dr. Mirkovic mentors students in psychological research methods and child development. She teaches undergraduate courses including Biological Bases of Behavior, Advanced Topics in Brain and Behavior, Cognition, and Language Development, as well as postgraduate courses in Psychological Research Methods and Child Development. Her work has significant implications for understanding language disorders, second language acquisition, and educational practices related to language development across the lifespan.

Erin Goddardمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس ارشد

• Visual Perception
• Neuroscience
• Cognitive Psychology
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Dr. Erin Goddard is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Psychology, University of New South Wales (UNSW) , where she has been since 2020. Her research focuses on the mechanisms of the human visual system, particularly how attention, memory, and task demands influence visual processing. She integrates behavioral methods (psychophysics) with advanced neuroimaging techniques like fMRI and MEG to investigate phenomena such as feature binding , color constancy , and resolving visual ambiguity . Funded by the Australian Research Council, her work has significant implications for understanding brain dynamics in visual perception. PhD from the University of Sydney (2011) Postdoctoral positions at University of Sydney, Macquarie University, and McGill University Research Interests: Dr. Goddard’s work bridges visual perception , neuroimaging , and cognitive neuroscience . She investigates how the brain processes chromatic and achromatic signals , attentional modulation , and dynamic visual coding . Her recent studies focus on MEG-based temporal analysis , fMRI adaptation , and cross-modal interactions in visual cortex. Scientific Contributions: ARC Discovery Project (2022-2026): $554,463 for studying brain interactions in visual uncertainty ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (2020-2023): $426,979 for neural dynamics of color constancy Teaching: Dr. Goddard teaches courses including Perception and Cognition (PSYC2071) , Vision and Brain (PSYC3221) , and Research Internship (PSYC3361) . Her lab website is goddardlab.psy.unsw.edu.au .

Colin Palmerمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Visual perception
• Face perception
• Gaze perception
• +۶ مورد دیگر

Colin Palmer is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore. Holding a Ph.D. and B.BNSc. (Hons.) from Monash University, his research explores how the brain extracts social information from visual stimuli through approaches including visual psychophysics, computational modelling, and 3D-graphical rendering. Education: Ph.D., B.BNSc. (Hons.) from Monash University His work focuses on: Visual perception mechanisms Face and gaze perception Biological motion analysis Sensory coding and social cognition Clinical applications in autism, schizophrenia, and face prosopagnosia Recent publications highlight interdisciplinary research at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, and computational modeling. Key themes include animacy detection, eye contact perception, and social attention mechanisms. He leads the Social Vision Lab , advancing mechanistic understanding of social perception through sensory processing studies.

Daniel Janiniمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر ارشد

• Visual Cognition
• Neuroimaging
• Computational Modeling
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Dr. Daniel Janini is a Humboldt Research Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin's Department of Neurocognitive and Experimental Psychology. He holds a PhD in Psychology from Harvard University (with Dr. Talia Konkle) and a BS/BA in Biology/Cognitive Science from Case Western Reserve University. His research focuses on the neural dynamics of visual cognition, exploring how the brain processes visual information through domain-general vs. specialized mechanisms. Education: PhD in Psychology, Harvard University (Advisor: Dr. Talia Konkle) BS Biology & BA Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University (Advisor: Dr. Ela Plow) Research Interests: He investigates visual perception algorithms using behavioral experiments, fMRI, and computational models. Key areas include category selectivity emergence in the visual system, fMRI study design optimization for reliability, and domain-general learning algorithms. His work challenges traditional views of neurofunctional specialization by demonstrating how general-purpose models can explain human visual tasks like letter categorization and numerical estimation. Grants & Awards: Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2024–2025) ERC Consolidator Grant (TRANSFORM project, 2025–present) Supervision & Collaboration: Currently recruiting a Master’s student/research assistant for fMRI methodological research. Seeks candidates with Python/Matlab skills in neuroimaging. Labs & Teams: Member of the Neurocognitive and Experimental Psychology lab, leading projects on visual system modeling and large-scale fMRI dataset design optimization.