Our Faculty
COGNITIVE AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
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Zenaida Aguirre-Munoz
Language and Cognition; STEM Education, Bilingualism/Biliteracy, Equity-Centered Assessment, Teacher Development
Email: zaguirre-munoz@ucmerced.edu
kristina backer
Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, Speech Perception, Audiovisual Processing, Bilingualism
Email: kbacker@ucmerced.edu
ramesh balasubramaniam
Sensorimotor Neuroscience, Music Cognition, Perception-Action, Dynamical systems.
Email: ramesh@ucmerced.edu
Heather Bortfeld
Infant development, speech perception, language processing
Email: hbortfeld@ucmerced.edu
colin holbrook
Decision-making under threat, morality, cooperation, overtrust in AI.
Email: cholbrook@ucmerced.edu
chris kello
Neural networks, complex systems, speech, language and search
Email: ckello@ucmerced.edu
paul maglio
Human-computer interaction, distributed cognition and service science
Email: pmaglio@ucmerced.edu
Tyler Marghetis
Cognitive ecologies, conceptual revolutions, cultural diversity, communication, complex systems
Email: tmarghetis@ucmerced.edu
teenie matlock
Cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, semantics, metaphor
Email: tmatlock@ucmerced.edu
david noelle
Computational cognitive neuroscience, learning and memory and cognitive control
Email: dnoelle@ucmerced.edu
lace padilla
Visual cognition, uncertainty and decision-making, data visualization, spatial cognition, cognition for the global good
Email: lace.padilla@ucmerced.edu
Rachel Ryskin
Language comprehension and production, learning and memory, predictive processing
Email: rryskin@ucmerced.edu
paul smaldino
Social and cultural evolution, complex systems, collective behavior, formal modeling, philosophy of science
Email: psmaldino@ucmerced.edu
michael spivey
Language processing, eye movements, embodied cognition and dynamical systems
Email: spivey@ucmerced.edu
jeffery yoshimi
Philosophy of cognitive science, dynamical systems theory and neural networks
Email: jyoshimi@ucmerced.edu
Contact
Kristina Backer
Cognitive and Information Sciences Graduate Program Chair
Email: kbacker@ucmerced.edu
Website: cogsci.ucmerced.edu