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

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kristina backer

Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, Speech Perception, Audiovisual Processing, Bilingualism

Email: kbacker@ucmerced.edu

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ramesh balasubramaniam

Sensorimotor Neuroscience, Music Cognition, Perception-Action, Dynamical systems.

Email: ramesh@ucmerced.edu

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Heather Bortfeld

Infant development, speech perception, language processing

Email: hbortfeld@ucmerced.edu

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colin holbrook

Decision-making under threat, morality, cooperation, overtrust in AI.

Email: cholbrook@ucmerced.edu

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chris kello

Neural networks, complex systems, speech, language and search

Email: ckello@ucmerced.edu

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paul maglio

Human-computer interaction, distributed cognition and service science

Email: pmaglio@ucmerced.edu

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Tyler Marghetis

Cognitive ecologies, conceptual revolutions, cultural diversity, communication, complex systems

Email: tmarghetis@ucmerced.edu

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teenie matlock

Cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, semantics, metaphor

Email: tmatlock@ucmerced.edu

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david noelle

Computational cognitive neuroscience, learning and memory and cognitive control

Email: dnoelle@ucmerced.edu

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lace padilla

Visual cognition, uncertainty and decision-making, data visualization, spatial cognition, cognition for the global good

Email: lace.padilla@ucmerced.edu

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Rachel Ryskin

Language comprehension and production, learning and memory, predictive processing

Email: rryskin@ucmerced.edu

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paul smaldino

Social and cultural evolution, complex systems, collective behavior, formal modeling, philosophy of science

Email: psmaldino@ucmerced.edu

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michael spivey

Language processing, eye movements, embodied cognition and dynamical systems

Email: spivey@ucmerced.edu

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jeffery yoshimi

Philosophy of cognitive science, dynamical systems theory and neural networks

Email: jyoshimi@ucmerced.edu

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Kristina Backer

Cognitive and Information Sciences Graduate Program Chair

Email: kbacker@ucmerced.edu

Website: cogsci.ucmerced.edu

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