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Achtman, Rebecca
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Interests: behavioural and cognitive neuroscience, neural correlates of shape perception, the role of local cues in object recognition, developmental visual disorders (e.g. ambylopia)
Phone: 585-273-5323
Office: Meliora 405
Allen, James F.
Dessauer Professor, Computer Science and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
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Interests: computational linguistics, conversational agents
Phone: 585-275-5288
Office: Computer Studies 732
Allen, Paul
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Phone: 585-273-2132
Office: Meliora 168
Anderson, Ashley
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-275-0751
Office: Meliora 408
Anzai, Akiyuki
Research Associate
Email:
Phone: 585-275-0860
Office: Meliora 248
Aslin, Richard N.
William R. Kenan Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science; Director, Rochester Center for Brain Imaging
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Interests: development, vision, audition, speech recognition
Phone: 585-275-8687
Office: Meliora 406
Austin, Alison
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-275-0751
Office: Meliora 408

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Badyulina, Galina
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-275-6281
Office: Meliora 421
Bardhan, Neil
Graduate Student
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Interests: speech perception, acoustic phonetics, and imaging
Phone: 585-275-4258
Office: Lattimore 514
Bavelier, Daphne
Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Radiology, and Center for Visual Science; Associate Director, Rochester Center for Brain Imaging
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Interests: visual cognition, plasticity
Phone: 585-275-8714
Office: Meliora 403
Beck, Jeffrey
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Interests: dynamical systems with emphasis on systems with threshold or firing time dynamics
Bradstreet, Heather
Laboratory Technician, Nordeen Lab
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Phone: 585-275-8460
Office: Meliora 151

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Carbary, Kathleen
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-275-4084
Office: Lattimore 510
Carlson, Greg
Professor, Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
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Interests: semantic theory, linguistic theory, sentence processing, discourse
Phone: 585-275-8053
Office: Lattimore 515
Chapman, Robert M.
Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science
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Interests: physiology, vision, cognition, brain-evoked potentials
Phone: 585-275-8679
Office: Meliora 243
Clark, Patricia
Staff Interpreter, Sign Language Research Center
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Interests: language change as seen in historical American Sign Language; translation and interpretation process
Phone: 585-273-5129
Office: Lattimore 116
Clayards, Meghan
Graduate Student
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Interests: interactions between speech perception and spoken word recognition, cue-weighting, eye-tracking
Phone: 585-275-3075
Office: Meliora 409
Como, Peter
Associate Professor, Neurology and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
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Interests: movement and inherited neurological disorders
Phone: 585-275-8726
Office: Medical Center 5-5221
Cook, Susan Wagner
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Phone: 585-273-4727
Office: Meliora 425
Corser, Kathy
Graduate Program Coordinator
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Phone: 585-275-1844
Office: Meliora 358

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Dambra, Christine
Bookkeeper
Email:
Phone: 585-275-7115
Office: Meliora 360
Davis, Sarah
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-275-2508
Office: Meliora 428
DeAngelis, Gregory
Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Biomedical Engineering, and the Center for Visual Science
Interests: neural mechanisms of depth perception, spatial direction and motion
Email:
Phone: 585-275-8677
Office: Meliora 245
Duffy, Charles J.
Professor, Neurology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Ophthalmology, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, and Center for Visual Science
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Interests: mechanisms of spatial orientation in health and disease
Phone: 585-273-1696, Fax: 585-442-8766
Office: Medical Center 6-8535
Dye, Matt
Research Associate
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Interests: cross-modal plasticity and deafness; effects of action video games on visual development
Phone: 585-275-0759 (voice), 585-506-1876 (TTY)
Office: Meliora 133B

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Elliott, Caroline
Administrative Assistant
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Phone: 585-275-8673
Office: Meliora 456

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Faber, Benjamin
Graduate Student
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Interests: theoretical syntax, language learnability, and language acquisition
Phone: 585-275-4534
Office: Meliora 127
Frank, Austin
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-275-2508
Office: Meliora 428
Freemesser, Chris
Systems Administrator, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science
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Phone: 585-275-0786
Office: Meliora 244

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Gardner, Margaret
Laboratory Technician, Chapman Lab
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Phone: 585-275-8142
Office: Meliora 166
Gebhart, Andrea
Research Associate
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Interests: language acquisition and development
Phone: 585-275-7192
Office: Meliora 494
Gegg-Harrison, Whitney
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-275-3075
Office: Meliora 409
Gildea, Daniel
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
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Interests: statistical approaches to natural language processing, in particular for the tasks of machine translation and language understanding
Phone: 585 275-7230
Office: Computer Studies Bldg. 730
Gillis, Jennifer
Administrator
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Phone: 585-275-2852
Office: Meliora 360
Gomez Gallo, Carlos
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-275-8479
Office: 734 Computer Studies Building
Green, Shawn
Graduate Student
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Interests: malleability of visual attentional skills, plasticity
Phone: 585-273-4863
Office: Meliora 133
Greenwald, Hal
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-275-3322
Office: Meliora 235

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Haber, Suzanne
Professor, Pharmacology and Physiology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
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Interests: Basal Ganglia and degenerative disease
Phone: 585-275-6959
Office: MC 5-6518
Hauser, Angela
Laboratory Technician, Bavelier lab
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Phone: 585-275-0695
Office: Meliora 404
Heller, Daphna
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Interests: Online use of common ground information, non truth-conditional meaning, Hebrew
Phone: 585-275-4084
Office: Lattimore 510
Hirshorn, Elizabeth
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-275-3075
Office: Meliora 409
Holtzman, David
Research Associate
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Phone: 585-273-4561
Office: Meliora 117
Horwitz, Suzanne
Laboratory Technician, Aslin lab
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Phone: 585-275-4621
Office: Meliora 410
Hussain, Shaista
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-275-8463
Office: Meliora 171
Hwang, Jaewon
Graduate Student
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Interests: Multisensory integration and decision making
Phone: 585-273-1767
Office: Medical Center 6-7518

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Ison, James R.
Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Surgery (Otolaryngology Division), and Center for Visual Science
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Interests: audition, sensory reflexes, sensory function, sensori-motor control
Phone: 585-275-8461
Office: Meliora 167
Issen, Laurel
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-275-2203
Office: Meliora 242

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Jacobs, Robert A.
Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, and Center for Visual Science
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Interests: cognitive and perceptual learning, neural computation
Phone: 585-275-0753
Office: Meliora 416
Jaeger, T. Florian
Assistant Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science
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Interests: language production and comprehension, language modeling
Phone: 585-276-3611
Office: Meliora 418
Jin, Wenjun
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Phone: 585-275-5237
Office: Meliora 156
Jovancevic, Jelena
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-275-7259
Office: Meliora 238

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Kellogg, Carol K.
Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
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Interests: neuropharmacology, development, hormones, behavior, GABA
Phone: 585-275-4801
Office: Meliora 186
Kidd, Celeste
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-275-0751
Office: Meliora 408
Kim, Christina
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-275-7093
Office: Meliora 407
Klein, Natalie
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-275-6281
Office: Meliora 421
Klorman, Rafael
Professor, Clinical & Social Sciences in Psychology and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
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Interests: psychopathology, psychophysiology, development, psychopharmacology
Phone: 585-275-2595
Office: Meliora 453
Knill, David C.
Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science
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Interests: visual perception, visuo-motor control, psychopsychics, computational vision
Phone: 585-275-4597
Office: Meliora 275

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Lehnert-LeHouiller, Heike
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Phone: 585-275-4258
Office: Lattimore 514
Lennie, Peter
Robert L. and Mary L. Sproull Dean of the Faculty of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering; Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and the Center for Visual Science
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Interests: functional organization of vision, color vision
Phone: 585-273-5000
Office: Lattimore 317
Li, Renjie
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-273-4877
Office: Meliora 133

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Ma, Wei Ji
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Phone: 585-275-7170
Office: Meliora 496
Makous, Walter
Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Ophthalmology, and Center for Visual Science
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Interests: visual information processing
Phone: 585-275-2460
Office: Meliora 253
Marvin, Elizabeth West
Professor, Eastman School of Music, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
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Interests: music cognition
Phone: 585-274-1076
Office: ESM 26 Gibbs Street
Masharov, Mikhail
Graduate Student
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Interests: psycholinguistics, cognitive science
McDonald, Betsy
Research Associate
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Phone: 585-275-2505
Office: Meliora 422
McDonough, Joyce
Chair, Linugistics; Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
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Interests: phonetics, laboratory phonology, Athabaskan linguistics, morphological typology, speech processing
Phone: 585-275-2895
Office: Lattimore 505
Merigan, William
Professor, Ophthalmology, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, and Center for Visual Science
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Interests: segregation of function between parallel visual pathways
Phone: 585-275-4872
Office: Medical Center 3-5731
Metlay, Donald
Laboratory Technician, Sign Language Research Center
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Interests: sign language morphology and syntax
Phone: 585-273-5130 (TTY), 585-273-5165 (voice)
Office: Lattimore 116
Michalak, Phil
Graduate Student
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Miller, Carrie
Lab Technician, Newport lab
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Phone: 585-273-3256
Office: Meliora 423
Mink, Jonathan
Associate Professor, Neurology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Pediatrics Chief, Child Neurology, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
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Interests: Physiology of movement, function of the basal ganglia, pathophysiology of movement disorders (Dystonia, Chorea), Tourette syndrome, Batten disease
Phone: 585-275-2808
Office: Medical Center 5-5511
Morgan, Jessica
Graduate Student, Center for Visual Science
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Phone: 585-275-8143
Office: Meliora 255

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Nagy, Lana
Graduate Student, Center for Visual Science
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Phone: 585-275-8675
Office: Meliora 247
Newport, Elissa L.
Chair of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, and George Eastman Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
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Interests: language acquisition and its relationship to language structure; mechanisms of learning and development
Phone: 585-275-8689
Office: 362 Meliora (dept chair's office), 414 Meliora
Nordeen, Ernest J.
Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Neurobiology & Anatomy
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Interests: hormonal regulation of neural plasticity and learning
Phone: 585-275-8453
Office: Meliora 116
Nordeen, Kathy W.
Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Neurobiology & Anatomy
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Interests: neural plasticity, learning, memory
Phone: 585-275-8452
Office: Meliora 106

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O'Neill, William E.
Associate Professor, Neurobiology & Anatomy and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
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Interests: audition, echolocation, vocal motor control, aging
Phone: 585-275-4023
Office: Medical Center 6-8531
Oshiro, Tomokazu
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Interests: molecular mechanism of visual cortical map (ocular dominance, orientation preference) development
Phone: 585-275-1497
Office: Meliora 172

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Paige, Gary D.
Professor, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Neurology, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, and Center for Visual Science
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Interests: visual, vestibular, and adaptive control of spatial orientation and balance
Phone: 585-275-6395
Office: Medical Center 5-7425
Pasternak, Tatiana
Professor, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, and Center for Visual Science
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Interests: cortical mechanisms of motion and form perception; visual memory
Phone: 585-275-8668
Office: Medical Center 5-6409
Peterson, Sara
Website manager, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science
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Phone: 585-275-8659
Office: Meliora 274
Pinaud, Raphael
Assistant Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and the Center for Visual Science
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Interests: neural plasticity, auditory, visual, learning, memory formation, gene expression, protein regulation, function, perception
Phone: 585-276-4024
Office: Meliora 117
Pouget, Alexandre
Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Center for Visual Science
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Interests: theories of coding, representation and computation in the brain
Phone: 585-275-0760
Office: Meliora 402

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Race, David
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Interests: sentence production and sentence comprehension
Phone: 585-275-7187
Office: Meliora 495
Rao, Vikranth
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-275-7261
Office: Meliora 497
Reeder, Patricia
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-275-2508
Office: Meliora 428
Rosecrans, Nathan
Graduate Student
E-mail:
Phone: 585-275-8463
Office: Meliora 171
Rothkopf, Constantin
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-275-7259
Office: Meliora 238
Runner, Jeff
Associate Professor, Linguistics, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
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Interests: Syntactic theory, syntax-semantics interface, phrase structure, the roles of structural and pragmatic constraints on noun phrase (co)-reference
Phone: 585-275-2626
Office: Lattimore 511A
Ruskin, David
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-275-6281
Office: Meliora 421

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Salverda, Anne Pier
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Phone: 585-273-5323
Office: Meliora 405
Sanada, Takahisa
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email:
Phone: 585-275-0860
Office: Meliora 248
Schieber, Marc H.
Professor, Neurology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Center for Visual Science and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
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Interests: finger movements, finger muscles, motor cortex, motor reorganization, motoric choice
Phone: 585-275-3369
Office: Medical Center 6-8537
Shukla, Mohinish
Postdoctoral fellow
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Phone: 585-275-7187
Office: Meliora 495
Skovbroten, Kristen
Graduate Student
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Phone: 585-275-7093
Office: Meliora 407
Subik, Dana
Laboratory Technician, Tanenhaus Lab
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Phone: 585-275-0514
Office: Meliora 415
Supalla, Ted
Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Linguistics, and American Sign Language
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Interests: sign language structure and creolization, psycholinguistics
Phone: 585-273-5130 (TTY), 585-273-3525 (TTY)
Office: Meliora 422, Lattimore 116

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Tadin, Duje
Assistant Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science
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Interests: neural mechanisms of visual perception
Phone: 585-275-8682
Office: Meliora 231
Tanenhaus, Michael K.
Beverly Petterson Bishop and Charles W. Bishop Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics; Director, Center for Language Sciences
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Interests: psycholinguistics, language and reading comprehension
Phone: 585-275-5491
Office: Meliora 420
Tredwell, Beth
Undergraduate Program Coordinator
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Phone: 585-275-0541
Office: Meliora 103
Tremere, Liisa
Assistant Professor (Research)
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Phone: 585-276-4023
Office: Meliora 107

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Watts, Andrew
Laboratory Technician, Jaeger lab, Tanenhaus lab
E-mail:
Phone: 585-273-1015
Office: Meliora 123
Weliky, Michael
Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science
E-mail:
Interests: visual cortical development, function, and plasticity
Phone: 585-273-4719
Office: Meliora 105
Westcott, Robin
Laboratory Technician, Weliky lab
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Phone: 585-275-5237
Office: Meliora 156
White, Katherine
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Interests: phonological acquisition and lexical development in infants; eye-tracking
Phone: 585-275-7192
Office: Meliora 494
Williams, David
Allyn Professor of Medical Optics, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Optics, Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering; Director, Center for Visual Science
E-mail:
Interests: optics and structure of the eye, limits of human vision, spatial and color vision
Phone: 585-275-8672
Office: Meliora 274A
Wolter, Lynsey
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Interests: semantics, pragmatics, sentence processing definiteness
Phone: 585-273-2366
Office: Lattimore 509

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Yee, Stephanie
Laboratory Technician, Ison lab
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Phone: 585-275-3295
Office: Meliora 185
Weliky, Michael
Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science
E-mail:
Interests: visual cortical development, function, and plasticity
Phone: 585-273-4719
Office: Meliora 105
Westcott, Robin
Laboratory Technician, Weliky lab
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Phone: 585-275-5237
Office: Meliora 156
White, Katherine
Postdoctoral Fellow
E-mail:
Phone: 585-275-7192
Office: Meliora 494
Williams, David
Allyn Professor of Medical Optics, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Optics, Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering; Director, Center for Visual Science
E-mail:
Interests: optics and structure of the eye, limits of human vision, spatial and color vision
Phone: 585-275-8672
Office: Meliora 274A
Wolter, Lynsey
Postdoctoral Fellow
E-mail:
Interests: semantics, pragmatics, sentence processing definiteness
Phone: 585-273-2366
Office: Lattimore 509

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