Faculty
Kevin Almeroth - Computer Science
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Computer networks and protocols, wireless networking, multicast communication, large-scale multimedia systems, educational technology, and mobile applications
F Gregory Ashby - Psychology
Ph.D., Purdue University
Perceptual and cognitive processes, mathematical psychology
Charles Bazerman - Education
Ph.D., Brandeis University
Cultural studies of science and technology, writing in society, rhetoric, discourse theory
Mary E. Brenner - Education
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Cultural influences on learning, situated cognition and mathematical cognition
Wallace L. Chafe - Linguistics
Ph.D., Yale University
American Indian linguistics, discourse, spoken and written language
Edward Chang - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Stanford University
Perception-based multimedia databases, machine learning, interactive TV, Web-based information system.
Pat Clancy - Linguistics
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Language acquisition, psycholinguistics, discourse, Japanese and Korean linguistics
Leda Cosmides - Psychology
Ph.D., Harvard University
Evolutionary psychology, cognition, domain-specific reasoning
Helen Couclelis - Geography
Ph.D., Cambridge University
Spatial cognition and behavioral geography, urban and regional theory and modeling, planning, the philosophy of science
Susanna A. Cumming - Linguistics
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Discourse analysis, computational linguistics, Western Austronesian linguistics
John W. Du Bois - Linguistics
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Discourse, sociocultural linguistics, Mayan linguistics
Richard P. Duran - Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Cultural psychology, literacy, assessment
Miguel P. Eckstein - Psychology
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Computational models of human vision, visual search, attention, perceptual learning,
perception of medical images
Michael Gazzaniga - Psychology
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Cognitive neuroscience; brain imaging and anatomy; visual psychophysics
Michael Gerber - Education
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Cognitive disabilities/interventions, intelligent instructional systems, educational effects of VR/CAVE applications
Tamsin German - Psychology
Ph.D., University of London
Cognitive and conceptual development: the acquisition of mental state concepts, children's understanding of tool use and artifact function, the relationship between counterfactual thinking and causal reasoning
Barry Giesbrecht - Psychology
Ph.D., University of Alberta
Spatial and temporal dynamics of selective visual attention; attention and performance; contextual influences of attention; cognitive neuroscience
Reginald G. Golledge - Geography
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Spatial cognition, behavioral geography, and decision making
Stefan Th. Gries - Linguistics
Ph.D., University of Hamburg
Corpus and computational linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and construction grammar
John M. Hajda - Music
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Perception of musical timbre, cognition of film music and other multimedia, music and communication
Mary Hegarty - Psychology
Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University
Comprehension, reasoning, spatial cognition, individual differences
Paul Z. Hernadi - English
Ph.D., University of Vienna and Ph.D., Yale University
Literary theory, history of criticism, comparative literature, modern drama
Tobias Höllerer - Computer Science
Ph.D., Columbia University
Human computer interaction; computer graphics; virtual and augmented reality; 3D displays and interaction; visualization; and wearable and ubiquitous computing
Stanley B. Klein - Psychology
Ph.D., Harvard University
Social cognition, mental representation of self, memory
Amy Kyratzis - Education
Ph.D., City University of New York
Language and communicative development; gender differences in language;language socialization
Jack M. Loomis - Psychology
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Visual space perception, auditory space perception, spatial behavior, spatial cognition
B. S. Manjunath - Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, neural networks,learning algorithms, content based search in multimedia databases
Richard E. Mayer - Psychology
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Human learning, problem-solving, educational psychology, human-computer interaction, mathematical and scientific reasoning
Michael B. Miller - Psychology
Ph.D., Dartmouth College
Human memory and decision making; cognitive neuroscience; neuroimaging
Daniel R. Montello - Geography
Ph.D., Arizona State University
Spatial perception, cognition and behavior; cognitive aspects of cartography and GIS; environmental psychology and behavioral geography
Robin L. Nabi - Communication
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
the interplay between emotion and cognition in understanding the effects of mediated messages
Marcos Novak - Media Arts and Technology
M.S., Ohio State University
Media and virtual architecture; transvergence; transarchitecture
Yukari Okamoto - Education
Ph.D., Stanford University
Educational psychology
Geoffrey Raymond - Sociology
Ph.D, University of California, Los Angeles
The organization of talk in interaction; sociology of science and technology; sociology of mass communication
Martin Raubal - Geography
Dr. techn., Vienna University of Technology
Cognitive engineering for geospatial services, cognitive semantic interoperability, location based decision services, spatial cognition and wayfinding, time geography, agents and artificial intelligence
Michael Rescorla - Philosophy
Ph.D., Harvard University
Philosophy of language, mind, psychology, logic
Russell Revlin - Psychology
Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University
Reasoning, psycholinguistics, cognitive processes
Laura Romo - Education
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Health education and communication, children's understanding of illness and disease transmission
Steven Smith - Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology
Ph.D., University of Arkansas
neuropsychological and personality assessment and the intersection of personality and cognitive processes
Terrence R. Smith - Geography, Computer Science
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Spatial data processing, spatial analysis, spatial databases, knowledge-based approaches to geographic information systems
Sandra A. Thompson - Linguistics
Ph.D., Ohio State University
Discourse and grammar, language universals, Chinese linguistics
John Tooby - Anthropology
Ph.D., Harvard University
Evolutional psychology, hominid-behavioral evolution, behavioral ecology, evolutionary genetics
Matthew Turk - Computer Science
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Computer vision, human-computer interaction, perceptual user interfaces, imaging systems
Yuan-Fang Wang - Computer Science
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Computer vision, computer graphics, artificial intelligence
René Weber - Communication
Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.), University of Technology Berlin, Germany
Media Communication, cognitive communication science, research methods & statistics
Aaron Z. Zimmerman - Philosophy
Ph.D., Cornell University
Self-Knowledge, philosophy of mind, epistemology, psychological concepts,
moral psychology and rationality
Rebecca Zwick - Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Applied statistics, educational and psychological measurement, test
validity and fairness