MIT : Brain and Cognitive Sciences : People : Faculty




Edward Adelson, Ph.D.		John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Vision Science psychophysics; computer vision; visual perception



Mark Bear, Ph.D.		Picower Professor of Neuroscience synaptic plasticity; visual cortex; developmental brain disorders



Robert Berwick, Ph.D		Professor of Computational Linguistics grammar theory; computational linguistics



Emilio Bizzi, Ph.D.		Institute Professor motor cortex; muscle synergies; voluntary



Edward Boyden, PhD		Benesse Career Development Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering neuroengineering; psychiatry; neural circuits



Emery Brown, M.D., Ph.D.		Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Health Sciences & Technology neural signal processesing; point processes; general anesthesia



Stephan Chorover, Ph.D		Professor of Psychology



Martha Constantine-Paton, Ph.D.		Professor of Biology synaptogenesis; development; disease



Suzanne Corkin, Ph.D.		Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience memory systems; neurodegeneration; neuroimaging



Robert Desimone, Ph.D.		Doris and Don Berkey Professor of Neuroscience attention; vision; synchrony



James DiCarlo, MD, PhD		Associate Professor of Neuroscience object recognition; neuronal computation; visual perception



Michale Fee, Ph.D.		Professor of Neuroscience songbirds; neural sequences



John Gabrieli, Ph.D.		Grover Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology and Cognitive Neuroscience memory; brain imaging; cognition



Edward Gibson, Ph.D.		Professor of Cognitive Sciences language processing; quantitative linguistics; culture and cognition (piraha)



Ki Goosens, Ph.D.		Assistant Professor of Neuroscience fear and stress; viral-mediated gene transfer; tetrode recording



Ann Graybiel, Ph.D.		Institute Professor basal ganglia; habit learning; multielectrode recording



Alan Hein, Ph.D.		Professor of Experimental Psychology



Richard Held, Ph.D.		Emeritus



Susan Hockfield, Ph.D.		Professor of Neuroscience and President, MIT



Neville Hogan, Ph.D.		Professor of Mechanical Engineering motor control; robotics



Alan Jasanoff, Ph.D.		Norman C. Rasmussen Career Development Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Biomedical Engineering functional MRI; neural systems; reward learning



Nancy Kanwisher, Ph.D.		Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience human cognitive neuroscience; fMRI; vision and perception



Yingxi Lin, Ph.D.		Assistant Professor of Neuroscience GABAergic synapses; neuronal activity; circuit homeostasis



Troy Littleton, M.D., Ph.D.		Associate Professor of Biology molecular neuroscience; neurotransmitter release; synaptic plasticity



Carlos Lois, M.D., Ph.D.		Assistant Professor of Neuroscience neurogenesis; genetics; development



Earl Miller, Ph.D.		Picower Professor of Neuroscience, Associate Director, Picower Institute executive; neurophysiology; cognition



Christopher Moore, Ph.D.		Associate Professor of Neuroscience cortex; dynamics; blood



Elly Nedivi, Ph.D.		Associate Professor of Neurobiology synaptic plasticity; activity-dependent genes



Aude Oliva, Ph.D.		Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience computational visual cognition; scene understanding; visual memory



Tomaso Poggio, Ph.D.		Eugene McDermott Professor in the Brain Sciences and Human Behavior computational neuroscience; vision; learning theory



Mary Potter, Ph.D.		Professor of Psychology picture perception and memory; attention; visual perception



Drazen Prelec, Ph.D.		Digital Equipment Corporation LFM Professor of Management in the Sloan School neuroeconomics; judgment and decision making; bayesian models



William Quinn, Ph.D.		Professor of Neurobiology drosophila; memory



Whitman Richards, Ph.D.		Professor of Cognitive Sciences cognition and perception; computation



Ruth Rosenholtz, Ph.D.		Principle Research Scientist of Visual Cognition vision; computational modeling; behavioral experiments



Rebecca Saxe, Ph.D.		Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience Fred and Carole Middleton Career Development Professorship development; social cognition; neuroimaging



Peter Schiller, Ph.D.		Dorothy W. Poitras Professor in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics visual systems; oculomotor systems



Gerald Schneider, Ph.D.		Professor of Neuroscience axon development; regeneration



Laura Schulz, Ph.D.		Class of 1943 Career Development Assistant Professor of Cognitive Sciences cognitive development; causal learning; exploratory play



Sebastian Seung, Ph.D.		Professor of Computational Neuroscience connectomics; structure and function of neural networks



Morgan Sheng, M.B.B.S., Ph.D.		Menicon Professor of Neurobiology molecular cellular neuroscience; synaptic plasticity; diseases of synapses



Pawan Sinha, Ph.D.		Associate Professor of Computational Neuroscience computational vision; object recognition



Jean-Jacques Slotine, Ph.D.		Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Information Sciences, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,Director of the Nonlinear Systems Laboratory dynamics, robotics



Mriganka Sur, Ph.D., FRS		Department Head and Newton Professor in Neuroscience cerebral cortex; development, plasticity and dynamics; brain disorders



Joshua Tenenbaum, Ph.D.		Associate Professor of Computational Cognitive Science bayesian models of cognition; learning and inference; computational cognitive science



Susumu Tonegawa, Ph.D.		Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience learning and memory; mental retardation and psychiatric diseases; genetic engineering



Li-Huei Tsai, Ph.D.		Picower Professor of Neuroscience, Director, Picower Institute epigenetic regulation of learning and memory; alzheimer's disease; neurogenesis



Kenneth Wexler, Ph.D.		Professor of Psychology and Linguistics language acquisition; psycholinguistics; genetics of language



Matthew Wilson, Ph.D.		Associate Department Head, Sherman Fairchild Professorship in Neurobiology and Picower Scholar hippocampal learning and memory; sleep



Richard Wurtman, Ph.D.		Cecil H. Green Distinguished Professor of Neuropharmacology synapses; brain membrane synthesis; neurotransmitters



Weifeng Xu, Ph.D.		Assistant Professor of Neuroscience synaptic plasticity; excitability; electrophysiology



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