Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
| Saman Abbaspoor Graduate student | Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Hippocampal circuit dynamics in freely behaving macaques during learning and memory of sequential experiences | ||
 | Rebecca Adler Doctoral Candidate | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Bethany Rittle-Johnson Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science |
 | Jo-Anne Bachorowski Associate Professor of Psychology | Email Website (615) 343-5915 307 Wilson Hall |
Clinical Science Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience vocal communication, including laughter, vocal expression of emotion, and indexical cues in speech |
 | Marcia Barnes Professor of Special Education | Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science Research Areas: cognitive processes and learning difficulties and disabilities; reading comprehension; early mathematics, inferential comprehension assessment and intervention | |
 | Deon T. Benton Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Website (615) 343-2206 219B Hobbs Building |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Developmental Science |
 | Robert Randolph Blake Centennial Professor Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Email Lab Website (615) 343-7010 512A Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Neural bases of human visual perception |
 | James R. Booth Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Lab Website @DrJamesBooth Jesup 107B |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Developmental Science Development of language, reading and related cognitive processes in typical and atypical populations |
 | Sarah Brown-Schmidt Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Website |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context language processing, conversation, memory, communication following brain injury and neurodegenerative disease |
 | Carissa Cascio Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences | Email Lab Website Website (615) 936-3598 2254 Village at Vanderbilt |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | Jason Chow Graduate Student | Email Website Wilson Hall 517 |
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Palmeri Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Individual differences in object recognition across modalities, deep neural networks, computational modeling |
| Keith N. Clayton Professor of Psychology Emeritus | Email Lab Website (615) 322-0060 |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | |
| David Coggan Postdoctoral scholar | Faculty Advisor: Frank Tong Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience I study regions of the brain involved in vision through a range of neuroimaging techniques | ||
 | Loïc Daumail PhD Candidate | Faculty Advisor: Frank Tong Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Research on visual perception: attention, consciousness. | |
 | Evgeniia Diachek Doctoral Student | Email Hobbs 302 |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Representation of linguistic knowledge in the mind and brain, language and other high-level cognitive functions |
 | Melissa Evans Graduate Student | Email Website |
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Brown-Schmidt Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Studying language production and memory |
 | Lisa Fazio Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Lab Website Website 615-875-8301 Hobbs 315A |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Developmental Science |
 | Justin Flanagan Graduate Student | Email 515 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Rene Marois Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | Jeffery J. Franks Professor of Psychology, Emeritus | Email (615) 322-0059 533 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | Bethany Gardner | Email Website |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience psycholinguistics, pragmatics |
 | Isabel Gauthier David K. Wilson Chair of Psychology Vice Chair Department of Psychology Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences | Email Lab Website Website 308A Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Individual differences in high-level vision, expertise, object recognition |
| Isabel Gauthier David K. Wilson Chair of Psychology Vice Chair Department of Psychology Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences | Email Lab Website Website 308A Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Individual differences in high-level vision, expertise, object recognition |
| Jordan Gunn | Faculty Advisor: Sean Polyn Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
 | Suzana Herculano-Houzel Associate Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website Website 615-875-9086 066 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science Neuroscience Quantitative Methods Interdisciplinary What are different brains made of? What is the extent of brain diversity, what are the rules and constraints, how does that happen in evolution, and what difference does it make? |
 | Kari Hoffman Associate Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website 533 WH |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience My lab studies the neural computations underlying perception, learning, and memory. We study cell assembly activity and network dynamics using high-density recording arrays, selective stimulation, and wireless recording technologies. |
 | Laura Janakiefski | Email Lab Website Website Hobbs 306 |
Faculty Advisor: Megan Saylor Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science language development, cognitive development, word learning, memory |
 | Angela L. Jefferson, PhD Director, Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer Professor of Neurology, Psychology, & Psychiatry | Email Lab Website Website 615-322-8676 |
Clinical Science Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience cardiovascular and cerebrovascular mechanisms affecting neuropsychological functioning, including mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer |
 | Ikhwan Jeon Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Frank Tong Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | |
 | Jinhyeok Jeong | Email 517 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Palmeri Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | Joseph S. Lappin Research Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website (941) 323-5489 510 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Career-long aim: Identifying visual information and the mechanisms of its selective recognition. |
 | Madison Lee Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Daniel Levin Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Visual Cognition, Self-regulation, Technology-Enhanced Learning | |
 | Daniel Levin Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Lab Website (615) 322-1518 108B Jesup |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context |
 | Gordon Logan Centennial Professor of Psychology | Email Website (615) 322-2529 506 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience I am interested in cognitive control, including attention, automaticity and skill, strategies, and response inhibition. |
 | René Marois Director of Graduate Studies Professor Winkelried Family Chair in Neuroscience | Email Website (615) 322-1779 530 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Behavioral and neural bases of Human Attention and Legal Decision-making |
 | Ashleigh Maxcey Senior Lecturer and Research Assistant Professor | Email Lab Website Website 615-322-2874 529 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Studies a type of forgetting of visual information from memory called recognition-induced forgetting |
 | Andrew McAvan Graduate Student | Email Wilson Hall 415C |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Human spatial navigation and decision making in non-Euclidean VR spaces. |
 | Rankin Williams McGugin Research Assistant Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website Website (615) 322-5522 604 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | Timothy P. McNamara Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Social and Natural Sciences Professor - Department of Psychology | Email Lab Website (615) 322-4150 509 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Human memory & cognition; spatial memory & navigation |
 | Huiyuan Miao | Faculty Advisor: Frank Tong Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience | |
 | Amy Needham Professor of Psychology and Human Development Member, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center | Email Lab Website (615) 322-8380 217A Hobbs Building |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science Perceptual-motor learning during early development |
 | Hamed Nejat Graduate Student | Email Website |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Analysis and mathematical modeling of Prediction, Attention, Memory and Learning with focus on human/non-human primates. |
 | Laura R. Novick Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development Associate Professor of Psychology, College of Arts and Science | Email Lab Website (615) 343-6072 213B Hobbs |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Diagrammatic reasoning (particularly with diagrams in biology such as evolutionary trees) |
 | Laura R. Novick Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development Associate Professor of Psychology, College of Arts and Science | Email Lab Website (615) 343-6072 213B Hobbs |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Diagrammatic reasoning (particularly with diagrams in biology such as evolutionary trees) |
| Richard Odom Professor of Psychology, Emeritus | Email (615) 322-0052 528 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | |
 | Thomas Palmeri Department Chair Distinguished Professor of Psychology Professor of Computer Science Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Email Lab Website (615) 343-7900 507 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience visual cognition, categorization, perceptual expertise, computational cognitive modeling, model-based cognitive neuroscience, deep learning models |
 | Sohee Park Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website Website (615) 322-3435 525 Wilson Hall |
Clinical Science Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Psychosis-Spectrum, Self Disorders |
 | Ebony Pearson Graduate Student | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Duane Watson Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | Lasyapriya Pidaparthi Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Wilson Hall 428 |
Faculty Advisor: Frank Tong Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Raunak Pillai | Faculty Advisor: Lisa Fazio Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
 | Sean Polyn Associate Professor of Psychology Associate Professor of Psychiatry | Email Lab Website (615) 322-2536 504 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognitive and neural dynamics of the human memory system, neuroimaging, electrophysiology, and computational modeling |
| Weiqiang (Tom) Qian Ph.D Candidate | Email Lab Website Website (615)775-7628 Hobbs 207 |
Faculty Advisor: Craig Smith Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Quantitative Methods I study the finer details of the appraisal processes in emotion experiences. | |
 | Ramnarayan (Ram) Ramachandran Assistant Professor of Hearing and Speech Sciences | Email 615-322-4991 065 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Neuronal basis of auditory and multisensory perception and behavior |
| Adam Ramsey | Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
 | John Rieser Professor Emeritus, Psychology and Human Development Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development | Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Developmental Science | |
 | Bethany Rittle-Johnson Professor and Chair, Psychology & Human Development Anita S. and Antonio M. Gotto Chair in Child Development | Email Lab Website (615) 322-8301 102B Jesup |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Developmental Science How children learn math |
| Norbert O. Ross Associate Professor of Anthropology Associate Professor of Anthropology and Psychology | Email (615) 322-6114 007 Garland Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | |
 | Amirsaman Sajad Research Assistant Professor | Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience I investigate how the brain monitors the outcome of our actions/decisions and uses this to improve our subsequent actions and decisions | |
 | Howard Sandler Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Emeritus | Email (615) 322-8141 |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science |
 | Megan Saylor Professor of Psychology and Human Development Department Chair | Email Lab Website 102b Jesup |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science |
 | Jonathan Schaefer Assistant Professor of Psychology | Clinical Science Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | |
 | Jeffrey D. Schall Adjoint Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website (615) 322-0868 525 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Neuorophysiological, anatomical, and computational studies of visual attention, executive control, and decision making |
 | Adriane E. Seiffert Principal Senior Lecturer and Research Assistant Professor of Psychology Director of Undergraduate Studies, A&S | Lab Website (615) 322-4595 534 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Dynamics of Perception and Cognition |
 | Craig A. Smith Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development | Email (615) 567-3472 219A Hobbs Building |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Study of Emotion, Stress, Coping, and Adaptation from a Cognitive Perspective |
 | William Smith Professor of Psychology, Emeritus | Email (615) 322-0065 |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | Conor Smithson Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Isabel Gauthier Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | |
 | Jisoo Sun | Email Lab Website Website |
Faculty Advisor: Isabel Gauthier Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | Frank Tong Centennial Professor of Psychology Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Email Lab Website Website (615) 322-1780 531 Wilson |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Neural bases of human visual perception, face and object recognition, visual attention, awareness, and working memory |
| Jana Ulrich Research Analyst I | Email 622 B Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Arts and Science | |
 | Sophia Vinci-Booher Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email 6153437365 |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Developmental Science Neuroscience |
 | Mark Wallace Louise B. McGavock Chair of Neuroscience Professor of Psychology Professor of Hearing & Speech Sciences, Pharmacology, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences | Email Lab Website 615-936--6709 7110 MRB III |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience |
 | Qimeng Wang Graduate Student | Email 313 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Jon Kaas Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience |
 | Duane Watson Professor of Psychology and Human Development Frank W. Mayborn Chair in Cognitive Science | Email Lab Website (615) 875-8083 Hobbs 215B |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context |
 | Duane Watson Professor of Psychology and Human Development Frank W. Mayborn Chair in Cognitive Science | Email Lab Website (615) 875-8083 Hobbs 215B |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context |
 | Eric D. Wilkey Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Lab Website (615)343-9140 Hobbs 313A |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Developmental Science |
 | Thilo Womelsdorf Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website Wilson 006 |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Circuit- and systems- level studies of attentional control and learning |
 | Geoffrey F. Woodman Professor of Psychology E. Bronson Ingram Chair of Neuroscience, Director of National Eye Institute T32 | Email Lab Website Website (615) 322-0049 502 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Attention, memory, neurophysiology of selective processing and cognitive control |
 | Zengbo Xie Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Wilson Hall 405 |
Faculty Advisor: Geoffrey Woodman Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Working Memory, Long term Memory, Attention, Neuroimaging, Computational Models |
 | David H. Zald Adjoint Professor of Psychology Director of the Affective Neuroscience Laboratory | Clinical Science Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Neuropsychology and neuroimaging, functions of the orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala and their relationship to psychiatric conditions |