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James Allen

Professor Emeritus of Computer Science

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Interests: Natural language understanding; Discourse; Knowledge representation; Common-sense reasoning; Planning

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Loisa Bennetto

Bennetto, Loisa

Associate Professor of Psychology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Neuroscience

Office Location
492 Meliora Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8712
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Interests: Neurocognitive bases of autism; The role of multisensory processing in social-communication difficulties

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Fiebelkorn, Ian

Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Office Location
5-6419 Medical Center
Telephone
Office (585) 275-8668
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Interests: Cognition; Selective attention; Working memory; Visual processing

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Daniel Gildea

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3019 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-7230
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Interests: Machine translation; Semantic parsing; Algorithms for natural language processing

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Suzanne Haber

Haber, Suzanne

Professor, Pharmacology & Physiology, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Office Location
5-6518 Medical Center
Telephone
(585) 275-6959
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Interests: Basal Ganglia; degenerative disease

Krystel Huxlin

Huxlin, Krystel

Professor, Ophthalmology, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science

James V. Aquavella Professor, Ophthalmology

URMC Ombudsperson

Associate Director, Center for Visual Science

Office Location
2-6728 Medical Center
Telephone
(585) 275-5495
Web Address

Interests: Improving vision after damage

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Chris Kanan profile

Kanan, Christopher

Associate Professor, Computer Science, Center for Visual Science, Brain & Cognitive Sciences

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Interests: Artificial intelligence; Continual Learning; Vision; Brain-inspired algorithms

David Kornack

Kornack, David

Associate Professor, Neuroscience

Office Location
5-7215 Medical Center
Telephone
(MC) (585) 273-3140
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(Mel) (585) 273-4719
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Interests: Neurogenesis in the Developing and Adult Mammalian Brain

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Feng Vankee Lin

Lin, Feng Vankee

Associate Professor, Nursing, Psychiatry, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Neuroscience

Office Location
2w128 Helen Wood Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-6002
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Elizabeth Marvin West

Marvin, Elizabeth West

Minehan Family Professor, Eastman School of Music, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Office Location
26 Gibbs Street ESM
Telephone
(ESM) (585) 274-1076
Telephone
(Mel) (585) 275-1812
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Interests: music cognition

William Merigan

Merigan, William

Professor, Ophthalmology, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science

Office Location
G-4101 Medical Center
Telephone
(585) 275-4872
Web Address

Interests: In Vivo Adaptive Optics Imaging of the Retina

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Norman-Haignere, Samuel

Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Computational Biology, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Biomedical Engineering

Office Location
4.133 Saunders Research Building
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Interests: Auditory neuroscience and perception; Neural encoding of speech and music; Statistical modeling of neural responses; Temporal integration in sensory systems; Human intracranial recordings; Functional MRI; Cross-species comparisons

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Alison Peterman

Peterman, Alison

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy

Co-Chair, Department of Philosophy

Office Location
520 Lattimore
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Interests: History and philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception

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Lizabeth Romanski

Romanski, Lizabeth

Associate Professor, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Center for Visual Science

Associate Chair, Neurobiology & Anatomy

Telephone
(585) 273-1469
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Jeff Runner

Runner, Jeffrey T.

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Professor of Linguistics

Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Vice Provost and University Dean for Undergraduate Education

Office Location
317L Lattimore Hall

Interests: Experimental Syntax; Syntactic/Linguistic Theory; Binding Theory; Syntax Processing; Phrase Structure; Syntax/Semantics Interface

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Marc Schieber

Schieber, Marc

Professor, Neurology, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science

Office Location
6-8537 Medical Center
Web Address

Interests: Neural control of hand and finger movements

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David Temperley

Temperley, David

Professor of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music

Office Location
26 Gibbs Street
Telephone
(585) 274-1557
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Susan Peirce Thompson

Thompson, Susan Peirce

Adjunct Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Founder and CEO, Bright Line Eating Solutions, LLC

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Interests: The neuroscience of food addiction; The key factors that drive sustainable weight loss; Willpower

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White, Aaron

Assistant Professor, Linguistics

Office Location
511A Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8053
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Interests: computational psycholinguistics; syntactic and semantic theory; first language acquisition

David Williams

Williams, David

Professor, Optics, Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science

Allyn Chair, Medical Optics

Telephone
(585) 275-8672
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Interests: Limits of human vision

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Zhu, Yuhao

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Center for Visual Science

Bridging Fellow in Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Office Location
3501 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
office (585) 275-1192
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