BCS Faculty

Allen, James F.: Dessauer Professor, Computer Science and Brain & Cognitive Sciences; E-mail:; Interests: computational linguistics, conversational agents; Phone: 585-275-5288; Office: Computer Studies 732
Aslin, Richard N.: William R. Kenan Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science; Director, Rochester Center for Brain Imaging; E-mail:; Interests: development, vision, audition, speech recognition; Phone: 585-275-8687; Office: Meliora 406
Bavelier, Daphne: Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Radiology, and Center for Visual Science; Associate Director, Rochester Center for Brain Imaging; E-mail:; Interests: visual cognition, plasticity; Phone: 585-275-8714; Office: Meliora 403
Carlson, Greg: Professor, Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences; E-mail:; 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; E-mail:; Interests: physiology, vision, cognition, brain-evoked potentials; Phone: 585-275-8679; Office: Meliora 243
Como, Peter: Associate Professor, Neurology and Brain & Cognitive Sciences; E-mail:; Interests: movement and inherited neurological disorders; Phone: 585-275-8726; Office: Medical Center 5-5221
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; E-mail:; Interests: mechanisms of spatial orientation in health and disease; Phone: 585-273-1696, Fax: 585-442-8766; Office: Medical Center 6-8535
Gildea, Daniel: Assistant Professor, Computer Science; E-mail:; 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
Haber, Suzanne: Professor, Pharmacology and Physiology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Brain & Cognitive Sciences; E-mail:; Interests: Basal Ganglia and degenerative disease; Phone: 585-275-6959; Office: MC 5-6518
Ison, James R.: Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Surgery (Otolaryngology Division), and Center for Visual Science; E-mail:; Interests: audition, sensory reflexes, sensory function, sensori-motor control; Phone: 585-275-8461; Office: Meliora 167
Jacobs, Robert A.: Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, and Center for Visual Science; E-mail:; 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; E-mail:; Interests: language production and comprehension, language modeling; Phone: 585-276-3611; Office: Meliora 418
Kellogg, Carol K.: Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences; E-mail:; Interests: neuropharmacology, development, hormones, behavior, GABA; Phone: 585-275-4801; Office: Meliora 186
Klorman, Rafael: Professor, Clinical & Social Sciences in Psychology and Brain & Cognitive Sciences; E-mail:; Interests: psychopathology, psychophysiology, development, psychopharmacology; Phone: 585-275-2595; Office: Meliora 453
Knill, David C.: Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science; E-mail:; Interests: visual perception, visuo-motor control, psychopsychics, computational vision; Phone: 585-275-4597; Office: Meliora 275
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; E-mail:; Interests: functional organization of vision, color vision; Phone: 585-273-5000; Office: Lattimore 317
Makous, Walter: Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Ophthalmology, and Center for Visual Science; E-mail:; Interests: visual information processing; Phone: 585-275-2460; Office: Meliora 253
Marvin, Elizabeth West: Professor, Eastman School of Music, Brain & Cognitive Sciences; E-mail:; Interests: music cognition; Phone: 585-274-1076; Office: ESM 26 Gibbs Street
McDonough, Joyce: Chair, Linugistics; Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences; E-mail:; 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; E-mail:; Interests: segregation of function between parallel visual pathways; Phone: 585-275-4872; Office: Medical Center 3-5731
Mink, Jonathan: Associate Professor, Neurology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Pediatrics Chief, Child Neurology, Brain & Cognitive Sciences; E-mail:; 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
Newport, Elissa L.: Chair of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, and George Eastman Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences; E-mail:; 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; E-mail:; 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; E-mail:; Interests: neural plasticity, learning, memory; Phone: 585-275-8452; Office: Meliora 106
O'Neill, William E.: Associate Professor, Neurobiology & Anatomy and Brain & Cognitive Sciences; E-mail:; Interests: audition, echolocation, vocal motor control, aging; Phone: 585-275-4023; Office: Medical Center 6-8531
Paige, Gary D.: Professor, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Neurology, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, and Center for Visual Science; E-mail:; 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; E-mail:; Interests: cortical mechanisms of motion and form perception; visual memory; Phone: 585-275-8668; Office: Medical Center 5-6409
Pinaud, Raphael: Assistant Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and the Center for Visual Science; E-mail:; 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; E-mail:; Interests: theories of coding, representation and computation in the brain; Phone: 585-275-0760; Office: Meliora 402
Runner, Jeff: Associate Professor, Linguistics, Brain & Cognitive Sciences; E-mail:; 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
Schieber, Marc H.: Professor, Neurology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Center for Visual Science and Brain & Cognitive Sciences; E-mail:; Interests: finger movements, finger muscles, motor cortex, motor reorganization, motoric choice; Phone: 585-275-3369; Office: Medical Center 6-8537
Supalla, Ted: Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Linguistics, and American Sign Language; E-mail:; Interests: sign language structure and creolization, psycholinguistics; Phone: 585-273-5130 (TTY), 585-273-3525 (TTY); Office: Meliora 422, Lattimore 116
Tadin, Duje: Assistant Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science; E-mail:; 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; E-mail:; Interests: psycholinguistics, language and reading comprehension; Phone: 585-275-5491; Office: Meliora 420
Tremere, Liisa: Assistant Professor (Research); E-mail:; Phone: 585-276-4023; Office: Meliora 107
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
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

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