Cognitive Science Faculty

• Core Faculty

  Faculty	Bio	Interests	Contact
  	Susan Brennan Professor, Cognitive Science Director of the Cognitive Science Program	Language use and processing in communication; psycholinguistics; multi-modal dialogue; human-AI interaction.	susan.brennan@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-322 Phone: (631) 632-9145
  	Richard Gerrig Professor, Cognitive Science Director of Graduate Studies	Psycholinguistics, especially the implications of non-conventional language for theories of language processing  and processes that give rise to and that follow from readers' experiences of being transported by narratives.	richard.gerrig@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-201 Phone: (631) 632-7847
  	Suparna Rajaram Distinguished Professor, Cognitive Science Director of Graduate Studies	Memory, amnesia, cognitive neuroscience, recollective experience, memory in the social context.	suparna.rajaram@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-252 Phone: (631) 632-7841
  	Lauren Richmond Associate Professor, Cognitive Science	Everyday cognition, cognitive aging, individual differences, working memory, aging, intervention.	lauren.richmond@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-342 Phone: (631) 632-7832
  	Gregory Zelinsky Professor, Cognitive Science Joint Associate Professor, Computer Science	Visual cognition (attention, search, scene perception, and visual working memory), with emphasis on the behavioral and computational study of eye movements in visual search.	gregory.zelinsky@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-240 Phone: (631) 632-7827

• Affiliated Faculty

  Faculty	Bio	Interests	Contact
  	Marie Huffman Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics	Phonetics, including howfine details of pronunciation are affected by linguistic structure and communicative context. Her recent research addresses how speakers adapt pronunciation due to partnerlanguage/dialect and communicative setting and how the sound systems of L1 and L2 interact in adult language learners.	Email:   marie.huffman@stonybrook.edu
  	Jared Van Snellenberg Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology	Neural mechanisms of psychosis (hallucinations and delusions); working memory and cognitive control; memory impairment in schizophrenia; functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) methods development; resting state functional connectivity; multiband (simultaneous multi-slice) fMRI; multimodal imaging (MRI, PET, MRS, EEG, etc.); back-translational clinical neuroscience; meta-analysis; linear modeling.	Jared.VanSnellenberg@stonybrookmedicine.edu HSC Level 10 Room 041H Phone: (631) 638-0064

• Research Faculty

  Faculty	Bio	Interests	Contact
  	Arthur Samuel Research Professor, Cognitive Science	Perception, language, attention, and memory.  The majority of his research in the last two decades has investigated  both bottom-up and top-down processes in speech recognition.	arthur.samuel@stonybrook.edu Psychology A-240 Phone: (631) 632-7792

• Emeritus Faculty

  Faculty	Bio	Interests
  	Nancy Franklin Emerita Professor, Cognitive Science	Memory and memory errors, including applications to the criminal justice system. Dr. Franklin regularly serves as an expert witness, both for current trials and post-conviction cases, on the reliability of eyewitness identification and memory.