Associated Faculty

Robert Hampton, Professor, Training Program Director. Dr. Hampton studies how rhesus monkeys learn, store, and manipulate information about their physical and social environments. His experiments help define relations between human and nonhuman cognition, and identify the neural substrates of learning and memory.

Patricia Bauer, Asa Griggs Candler Professor, Training Program Co-Director. Dr. Bauer studies the cognitive and social influences on learning from infancy through the college years, using a developmental cognitive neuroscience perspective.

Eugene Agichtein, Associate Professor. Dr. Agichtein’s work focuses on developing novel machine learning and data mining techniques to model data generated from the digital traces of people’s online information processing behavior, that is, creation, sharing, and searching in online environments.

Jocelyne Bachevalier, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor. Dr. Bachevalier studies the role of the medial temporal lobe and prefrontal cortex in learning and memory processes, emotional regulation, and sociality across the lifespan.

Daniel Dilks, Associate Professor. The goal of Dr. Dilks’ research is to understand the neural mechanisms involved in human visual processing, from infancy to adulthood.

Dieter Jaeger, Professor. Dr. Jaeger’s work is guided by the premise that if we are to understand how neural computations support learning and memory, it is first necessary to determine the dynamical properties of the neural elements involved.

Robert Liu, Professor. Dr. Liu researches the neurobiology of social information processing and learning in mice and prairie voles, using techniques including electrophysiology, computational analyses, behavior, optogenetics, and molecular methods.

Stella Lourenco, Associate Professor. Dr. Lourenco studies how humans at different points in development make sense of the physical environment and represent important aspects of experience for use later and to support abstract thought.

Donna Maney, Professor. Dr. Maney studies how vocal learning is shaped by early social reward.

Joseph Manns, Associate Professor. Dr. Manns’ research connects neuroscience with psychology to ask how the functional circuitry of the hippocampal system supports learning and memory in our everyday lives.

Ilya Nemenman, Professor of Physics and Biology. Dr. Nemenman studies information processing phenomena, such as learning, adaptation, decision making, across scales and across different biological systems.

Lynne Nygaard, Professor. Dr. Nygaard studies the perceptual, cognitive, biological, and social under-pinnings of human spoken communication.

Rohan Palmer, Assistant Professor. Dr. Palmer’s research focuses on identification of genetic and environmental/learning factors associated with alcohol, tobacco, and other substance use disorders, and by extension behavioral and neurocognitive antecedents that increase the likelihood of drug consumption (e.g., impulsivity, conduct disorder, novelty seeking).

Mar Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. Dr Sanchez studies the neurobiology of stress and emotional regulation in nonhuman primates.

Samuel Sober, Associate Professor. Dr. Sober studies how the brain learns and controls complex behaviors.

Lena Ting, Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Ting's research focuses on the neuromechanics of balance and gait using methods from neurophysiology, rehabilitation, robotics, and biomechanics.

Michael Treadway, Associate Professor. Dr. Treadway studies the pathophysiology of reward processing deficits in the context of psychopathology, especially major depression.

Phillip Wolff, Professor. Dr. Wolff’s studies learning and cognitive processes, with special interest in planning, causal reasoning, word meaning, and mental health.

Larry Young, William P. Timmie Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Young studies the neural and genetic mechanisms that underlie social cognitive processes such as social learning and memory and social attachment.