Research Programs
Our research spans a large domain and straddles several disciplines in the behavioral, neural, and computational sciences. All of it is connected by the idea that to understand behavior we must study not only behavior but also the processes - both neural and computational - on which it depends. While the faculty have active research programs in many regions of the large domain, in several areas we have notable concentrations of strength. Some of these concentrations of expertise are in recognized perceptual or cognitive systems; others cover broader issues that cut across systems and link research projects that deal with different behaviors and species.
Faculty Research Interests
- Brain Changes During Sensitive Periods for Learning
- Comparisons of Sign Languages of the World
- Computational Cognition and Perception
- Electrophysiological Indicators of Cognitive Function
- Experience and the Development of Perceptual-Motor Systems
- Functional organization of visual pathways; Mechanisms of color vision
- Fundamental Limits to Vision
- Neurobiology of Vocal Learning and Plasticity
- Mechanisms of Sensory Systems Plasticity, Learning and Memory Formation
- Mechanisms Underlying the Acquisition of Language
- Mechanisms Underlying the Comprehension of Language
- Mechanisms Underlying the Production of Language
- Neural Mechanisms of Depth and Motion Perception
- Computational Models of Neural Representations and Computations
- Neurotransmitters and the Developing Nervous System
- Plasticity of Visual and Language Functions: The Case of Deafness and of Video Game Playing
- Role of Neuronal Activity in Visual Cortical Development
- Sensory and Perceptual Modulation of Reflexive Behaviors
- Serial Organization of Vision
- Visual Computations for Perception and Action
Major Research Groups
- Alliance for Vision Excellence
- Center for Computation and the Brain
- Center for Language Sciences
- Center for Visual Science
- The Consortium for Research on Eye Tracking in Infants
- Multi-University Research Group (MURI) on Complex Learning
- Music Cognition at Eastman/UR
- Resource for the Study of Neural Models of Behavior
- Rochester Center for Brain Imaging
- Sign Language Research Center
- The TRAINS Project: Natural Spoken Dialogue and Interactive Planning