Our Faculty
COGNITIVE AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
kristina backer
Auditory perception, cognitive neuroscience
Email: kbacker@ucmerced.edu
ramesh balasubramaniam
Cognitive, neurophysiological and dynamical systems approaches to action
Email: ramesh@ucmerced.edu
Heather Bortfeld
Infant development, speech perception, language processing
Email: hbortfeld@ucmerced.edu
carolyn dicey jennings
Philosophy of mind and cognitive science, attention, perception, consciousness and action
Email: cjennings3@ucmerced.edu
hanna gunn
Epistemology, applied ethics
Email: hgunn@ucmerced.edu
daniel hicks
Philosophy of science, data ethics, science policy
Email: dhicks4@ucmerced.edu
colin holbrook
Decision-making under contexts of threat, morality, group prejudice, and the attribution of mental states
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, experimental semantics, human-computer interaction and political language
Email: tmatlock@ucmerced.edu
david noelle
Computational cognitive neuroscience, learning and memory and cognitive control
Email: dnoelle@ucmerced.edu
lace padilla
Visual decision making, spatial cognition, applied perception and education
Email: lace.padilla@ucmerced.edu
Rachel Ryskin
Language comprehension and production, learning and memory, predictive processing
Email: rryskin@ucmerced.edu
paul smaldino
Social organization, evolutionary dynamics, mathematical and computational modeling of complex systems, 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
Paul Smaldino
Cognitive and Information Sciences Graduate Program Chair
Email: psmaldino@ucmerced.edu
Website: cogsci.ucmerced.edu