| Daniel Altschuler daltshul@gmail.com Linguistics, Hampshire College |  | Research interests: My primary research interests are in the areas of semantics and pragmatics of natural language, and in cognitive science more generally. The theme of my research is context dependence of temporal expressions (e.g. tense, aspect, adverbs) with the aim of better understanding how compositional semantics interacts with discourse structure and discourse coherence. I have also worked on the phonetics, phonology and documentation of Osage and have ongoing interests in metrics. |
| Luiz Amaral amaral@spanport.umass.edu Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Hispanic linguistics) |  | Research interests: Bilingual and Second Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics |
| Mary Andrianopoulos mva@comdis.umass.edu Communication Disorders |  | Research interests: Autism regarding the acoustic perceptual, micro- and macro-narrative structures, motor programming, planning and execution of speech |
| Louise Antony lantony@philos.umass.edu Philosophy |  | Research interests: Philosophical issues at intersection of epistemology and cognitive science, and feminst theory and cognitive science (e.g., implicit bias) |
| Meghan Armstrong armstrong@spanport.umass.edu Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Hispanic linguistics) |  | Research interests: I am interested in how intonation is used to convey epistemic meaning. My work deals with epistemic intonational marking in both adults and children. I am currently working on children's comprehension of intonationally-encoded epistemic meaning in Catalan and English. My recent work also deals with the role of facial gestures in the comprehension of intonational meaning. I am exploring this in typically-developing children and adolescents with high-functioning autism. |
| Lori Astheimer lastheimer@psych.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Behavioral Neuroscience) |  | Research interests: ERP measures of the relationship between attention and language processing |
| Jane Baran baran@comdis.umass.edu Communication Disorders |  | Research interests: Central auditory processing |
| Rajesh Bhatt bhatt@linguist.umass.edu Linguistics |  | Research interests: Syntax, syntax-semantics interface, Indo-Aryan languages, mathematical linguistics |
| Richard Bogartz bogartz@psych.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Developmental) |  | Research interests: Computational modeling; data analysis methods |
| Seth Cable scable@linguist.umass.edu Linguistics |  | Research interests: Formal semantic analysis of phenomena from understudied and/or endangered languages (especially Tlingit). |
| Kyle Cave kcave@psych.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Cognitive) |  | Research interests: Visual cognition and attention |
| Erik Cheries echeries@psych.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Developmental) |  | Research interests: The cognitive biases that underlie infants' representations of objects, agents, and early socio-moral intuitions |
| John Clement clement@educ.umass.edu Education |  | Research interests: Nonformal reasoning and learning in experts and in students such as the use of mental simulation, analogies, and thought experiments |
| Charles Clifton cec@psych.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Cognitive) |  | Research interests: Comprehension of written and spoken language |
| Andrew Cohen acohen@psych.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Cognitive) |  | Research interests: Decision-making, perceptual categorization, modeling |
| Rosie Cowell rcowell@psych.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Cognitive) |  | Research interests: The neural and cognitive mechanisms of visual perception and memory in the human brain. |
| Brian Dillon brian@linguist.umass.edu Linguistics |  | Research interests: I am interested in syntactic comprehension, and specifically, the role of working memory in online syntactic processing. |
| Lyn Frazier lyn@linguist.umass.edu Linguistics |  | Research interests: Normal adult language comprehension with a focus on the interface between syntax and meaning |
| Lisa Green lgreen@linguist.umass.edu Linguistics |  | Research interests: Syntax/Semantics with focus on African American English, syntactic variation, L1 Acquisition |
| Rod Grupen grupen@cs.umass.edu Computer Science |  | Research interests: Robotics (mechanics, control, representation) |
| Alice Harris acharris@linguist.umass.edu Linguistics |  | Research interests: Historical linguistics, morphology, psycholinguistic work on understudied languages |
| Lisa Harvey eharvey@psych.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Clinical) |  | Research interests: Early development of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) |
| Karen Helfer khelfer@comdis.umass.edu Communication Disorders |  | Research interests: Speech perception in complex listening environments; speech perception in middle-aged and older adults |
| David Huber dehuber@psych.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Cognitive) |  | Research interests: My research focuses on human perception and memory from a broad-based, computational perspective. |
| Linda Isbell lisbell@psych.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Social) |  | Research interests: Social Cognition; Affect and Cognition |
| Beth Jakob ejakob@psych.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Behavioral Neuroscience) |  | Research interests: Spider learning and vision, including eye movement tracking |
| Gaja Jarosz jarosz@linguist.umass.edu Linguistics |  | Research interests: Phonology, computational linguistics, and language acquisition |
| Alexandra Jesse ajesse@psych.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Cognitive) |  | Research interests: My research focuses on speech perception and spoken-word recognition, as well as intersensory perception, language processing, and learning processes as they relate to speech perception. |
| Gary S. Karpinski garykarp@music.umass.edu Music and Dance |  | Research interests: Aural skills acquisition; perception of tonality. |
| John Kingston jkingston@linguist.umass.edu Linguistics |  | Research interests: Phonetics, phonology, speech perception |
| James Kitts jkitts@soc.umass.edu Sociology |  | Research interests: Computational modeling; social networks, social interaction, and social cognition |
| Hilary Kornblith kornblith@philos.umass.edu Philosophy |  | Research interests: I work on issues in epistemology which are illuminated by results from the cognitive sciences. |
| Angelika Kratzer kratzer@linguist.umass.edu Linguistics |  | Research interests: Semantics, philosophy of language. Modality, mood, conditionals, embedded sentences, argument structure, event semantics, pronouns. |
| Jacquie Kurland jkurland@comdis.umass.edu Communication Disorders |  | Research interests: Treatment-induced brain reorganization in post-stroke aphasia |
| Erik Learned-Miller elm@cs.umass.edu Computer Science |  | Research interests: Computer vision and human intelligence |
| Joseph Levine jle@philos.umass.edu Philosophy |  | Research interests: Philosophical issues revolving around mental representation, intentionality, and consciousness. |
| Jennifer Mack jemack@umass.edu Communication Disorders |  | Research interests: Neural and cognitive bases of sentence comprehension and production, adult language disorders |
| John McCarthy jmccarthy@linguist.umass.edu Linguistics |  | Research interests: Phonology and morphology |
| Ethan Meyers emeyers@hampshire.edu Cognitive Science, Hampshire College |  | Research interests: My research develops statistical tools to understand how information is coded in neural activity. |
| Stephen Miller smiller@umass.edu Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Asian Languages and Literatures) |  | Research interests: Buddhism, cognitive science and literature |
| David Moorman moorman@cns.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Behavioral Neuroscience) |  | Research interests: Cellular and network encoding of cognitive function and psychiatric disease |
| Joanna Morris jmorris@hampshire.edu Hampshire College, Cognitive Science |  | Research interests: Visual word recognition, cognitive electrophysiology, morphological processing |
| Martina Nieswandt mnieswan@educ.umass.edu Education |  | Research interests: Cognitive, affective and motivational factors influencing learning and teaching of science in K-16 |
| Brendan O'Connor brenocon@cs.umass.edu Computer Science |  | Research interests: Natural language processing, computational social science |
| Magda Oiry moiry@linguist.umass.edu Linguistics and Languages, Literatures and Cultures (French) |  | Research interests: Interested by syntactic development in older children (3 to 12) in relation to mental states or Theory of Mind. |
| Barbara Partee partee@linguist.umass.edu Linguistics |  | Research interests: Formal semantics and its relations to pragmatics, syntax, philosophy of language, and cognitive science |
| Joe Pater pater@linguist.umass.edu Linguistics |  | Research interests: Phonology and its learning; experimental and computational methods |
| Alejandro Perez Carballo apc@umass.edu Philosophy | Research interests: Conceptual innovation; Moral and Mathematical thought and language; Reasoning. | |
| Alexander Pollatsek pollatsek@psych.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Cognitive) |  | Research interests: Reading, modeling, visual attention |
| Tom Roeper roeper@linguist.umass.edu Linguistics |  | Research interests: Theoretical and experimental approaches to language acquisition |
| Gwyneth Rost grost@umass.edu Communication Disorders |  | Research interests: Child language development and disorders |
| Caren Rotello caren@psych.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Cognitive) |  | Research interests: Our research seeks to understand basic processes in recognition memory and reasoning, using methods rooted in signal detection theory and neuroscience (EEG). |
| Lisa Sanders lsanders@psych.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Cognitive) |  | Research interests: Auditory perception, selective attention, and speech processing using event-related brain potentials |
| Kara Smith kara.smith@umass.memorial.org Neurology, UMass Memorial | Research interests: Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders | |
| Lee Spector lspector@hampshire.edu Cognitive Science, Hampshire College Computer Science, Amherst College Computer Science, UMass |  | Research interests:Artificial intelligence and the connections between cognition, computation, evolution, and the arts. |
| Rebecca Spencer rspencer@psych.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Cognitive, Developmental and Behavioral Neuroscience) |  | Research interests: Cognitive function of sleep across the lifespan |
| Jeffrey Starns jstarns@psych.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Cognitive) |  | Research interests: Memory for Events |
| Adrian Staub astaub@psych.umass.edu Psychological and Brain Sciences (Cognitive) |  | Research interests: I study lexical and syntactic processing, and their interaction, in both comprehension (especially using eye movements in reading) and production. |
| Florence Sullivan fsullivan@educ.umass.edu Education (TECS - Learning Technology) |  | Research interests: Collaborative learning with computational media including problem-solving, creativity and gender issues. |
| Christopher White cwmwhite@music.umass.edu Music and Dance |  | Research interests: Modeling of musical syntax. |
| Beverly Woolf bev@cs.umass.edu Computer Science |  | Research interests: Based on the psychology of learning, strategies for effective teaching, and the dynamics of human-machine interactions, we build computer systems that encode a deep understanding of the domain, the tutoring process, and the presumed knowledge of students to improve teaching and learning. |
| Yuki Yoshimura yuki@asianlan.umass.edu Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Asian Languages and Literatures) |  | Research interests: Second Language Acquisition |
| Kristine Yu krisyu@linguist.umass.edu Linguistics |  | Research interests: Prosody, phonetics, phonology |