Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Faculty
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 math 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Isabel Gauthier David K. Wilson Chair of Psychology Associate 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 |
![]() | Suzana Herculano-Houzel Associate Professor of Psychology Associate Director for Communications, Vanderbilt Brain Institute | Email Lab Website Website 615-875-9086 066 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science Neuroscience Quantitative Methods Interdisciplinary |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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) |
![]() | Thomas Palmeri Distinguished Professor of Psychology Department Chair | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 | |
![]() | 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 | |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Sophia Vinci-Booher Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email 6153437365 Hobbs 321 |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Developmental Science |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 Website 615-421-1611 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 |
![]() | Cristina Zepeda Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Lab Website Website 615-343-0387 Hobbs 317A |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Developmental Science Metacognition, motivation, learning and transfer, self-regulated learning, and using educational technology to support learners |