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  • Erik Altmann, Ph.D. 1996, Carnegie Mellon University. Department of Psychology: memory, attention, and executive function; computational and mathematical modeling of human performance.
  • Joe Arvai, Ph.D. 2001, University of British Columbia. Environmental Science and Policy Program: the role of affect in judgment; judgment under stress, risk, and uncertainty; decision analysis.
  • Mark Becker, Ph. D. 2000, University of University of California, San Diego. Department of Psychology: visual cognition and attention, scene viewing, how emotional stimuli, working memory, and long term memory influence the allocation of attention.
  • Alan Beretta, Ph.D. 1987, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Department of Linguistics and Languages: neurolinguistics.
  • Frank Biocca, Ph.D. 1989, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Media Interface and Network Design (M.I.N.D.) Laboratory, Deparment of Telecommunications: human-computer interaction.
  • Ryan Bowles, Ph.D. 2006, University of Virginia. Department of Psychology: working memory, vocabulary ability, cognitive aging, quantitative methodologies for measurement and change.
  • Tom Carr, Ph. D. 1975, George Peabody College at Vanderbilt University. Department of Psychology: attention, knowledge representation, executive control, and performance under stress.
  • Michael Casby, Ph.D. 1980, University of Kansas. Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders: child language development and disorders, developmental disabilities, language-learning disabilities, emergent literacy.
  • Joyce Chai, Ph.D. 1998, Duke University. Department of Computer Science and Engineering: natural Language Processing, Information extraction and retrieval, and intelligent user interfaces.
  • Soo-Eun Chang, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders: Neural bases of speech perception and production, neurophysiology bases of stuttering.
  • Judith Danovitch, Ph.D. 2005, Yale University. Department of Psychology: cognitive development, reasoning about information and expertise, cognition and emotion.
  • Laura Dilley, Ph.D. 2005, MIT. Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders: spoken language processing, word segmentation, perception and cognitive representation of intonational and lexical tone systems.
  • Laura Dillon, Ph.D. 1984, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Department of Computer Science: formal notations and analysis techniques supporting software specification, design, modeling, and verification.
  • Fred C. Dyer, Ph.D. 1984, Princeton University. Department of Zoology: mechanisms and evolution of visual behavior in insects; Ecology and evolution of social behavior in insects.
  • Kimberly Fenn, Ph.D. 2006, University of Chicago. Department of Psychology: acquisition and consolidation of memory and skill learning, attention in learning and auditory perception, complex syntactical rule learning.
  • Thomas Getty, Ph.D. 1980, University of Michigan. Department of Zoology and Kellogg Biological Station: the role of information in various aspects of animal behavior.
  • D. Zach Hambrick, Ph.D. 2000, Georgia Institute of Technology. Department of Psychology: effects of working memory, age, and domain-specific knowledge on cognition.
  • Lauren Harris, Ph.D. 1965, University of Minnesota. Department of Psychology: neuropsychological analysis of human cognition, individual differences in spatial ability, lateralization (infants and children), history of psychology.
  • William M. Hartmann, Ph.D. 1965, Oxford University. Department of Physics and Astronomy: theoretical and experimental psychoacoustics.
  • Julie Libarkin, Ph.D. 1999, University of Arizona. Department of Geological Sciences: expert-novice differences in cognitions about geological phenomena.
  • Yen-Hwei Lin, Ph.D. 1989, University of Texas at Austin. Department of Linguistics and Languages: phonology, phonology-morphology interface, phonology-phonetics interface.
  • Taosheng Liu, Ph.D. 2001, Columbia University. Department of Psychology: brain mechanisms of perception and attention, object recognition, neuroimaging.
  • Devin McAuley, Ph.D. 1995, Indiana University at Bloomington. Department of Psychology: time and rhythm, auditory perception, attention.
  • Kelly Mix, Ph.D. 1995, University of Chicago. College of Education: cognitive development, early childhood number and math concepts, language and cognition.
  • Marcin Morzycki, Ph.D. 2005, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Department of Linguistics and Languages: formal semantics, syntax-semantics interface, grammar of modification.
  • Alan Munn, Ph.D. 1993, University of Maryland. Department of Linguistics and Languages: syntax, semantics, psycholinguistics.
  • Joel Nigg, Ph.D. 1996, University of California at Berkley. Department of Psychology: causes and correlates of psychopathology, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Charles Owen, Ph.D. 1998, Dartmouth College, Department of Computer Science and Engineering: virtual and augmented reality; realistic embodied agents; computer game design and development. 
  • Tim Pleskac, Ph.D. 2004, University of Maryland. Department of Psychology: cognitive decision theory, sequential risk taking and decision making, cognitive models, diffusion/random walk models, learning and memory.
  • Brad Rakerd, Ph.D. 1982, University of Connecticut. Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders: sound localization, speech perception, and hearing impairment.
  • Susan Ravizza, Ph.D. 2000, University of California, Berkeley. Department of Psychology: fMRI, behavioral, and neuropsychological studies of cognitive control, language, and motor coordination.
  • Cristina Schmitt, Ph.D. 1996, University of Maryland. Department of Linguistics and Languages: syntax, syntax/semantics interface, aphasia.
  • Jon Sticklen, Ph.D. 1987, Ohio State University. Department of Computer Science: knowledge-based systems, task specific architectures for expert level decision making, computation-based problem solving.
  • Kurt Stirewalt, Ph.D. 1997, Georgia Institute of Technology. Department of Computer Science: practical use of formal and semi-formal graphical models in the design, verification, and maintenance of interactive and concurrent software systems.
  • George Stockman, Ph.D. 1977, University of Maryland. Department of Computer Science: computer vision, knowledge representation and artificial intelligence.
  • Laura Symonds, Ph.D. 1982, University of Pennsylvania. Department of Psychiatry and Department of Radiology: cognitive and emotional modification of pain.
  • Leigh VanHandel, Ph.D. 2005, Stanford University. College of Music: music, language, music perception and cognition, computer-assisted research in music theory.
  • John J. Weng, Ph.D. 1989, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Department of Computer Science: computer vision, speech, robotics, machine learning and machine mental development.
  • Rose T. Zacks, Ph.D. 1967, University of California at Berkeley. Department of Psychology: attention, memory, and cognitive aging.
  • David Zhu, Ph.D. 1999, University of California, Davis. Department of Psychology, Department of Radiology: MR imaging technique development and functional MRI applications.
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