Faculty
The faculty is very active in the science and profession of cognitive psychology.
As a group, its members have authored hundreds of book chapters and scholarly articles.
| Simon Dennis | Associate Professor: Human memory and learning, natural language processing, connectionist models of cognition, information retrieval | Ph.D., University of Queensland, Australia, 1993 |
| Richard J. Jagacinski | Professor: Engineering Psychology; Behavioral applications of control theory; Decision making in guiding dynamic systems; Aging; Environmental and social effects of technology |
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1973 |
| Neal F. Johnson | Emeritus Professor: Human learning and memory; Psycholinguistics; Reading; Psychological implications of language structure; The nature of the decision units used in the production of behavior | Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1962 |
| Gail McKoon | Professor: Psycholinguistics; Reading; Memory; Aging | Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1975 |
| John E. Opfer | Assistant Professor: Conceptual development; Representation of knowledge; Naive biology; Numerical cognition | Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2000 |
| Alexander A. Petrov | Assistant Professor: Perceptual learning, reinforcement learning, connectionist models of relational structure, memory-based models, analogy, computational cognitive neuroscience, cogntiive architectures, spatial vision | Ph.D., New Bulgarian University, 1998 |
| Mark A. Pitt | Professor: Psycholinguistics; Spoken word recognition; Mathematical Modeling. | Ph.D., Yale University, 1989 |
| Roger Ratcliff | Professor: Mathematical modeling of cognitive processes; Simple decisions and reaction time; Memory models; Implicit memory; Methodology; Aging and reaction time; Neural modeling including single cell recording | Ph.D., University of Auckland, New Zealand, 1974 |
| Harvey G. Shulman | Associate Professor: Memory; Attention; Human performance and human factors; Attention and cognition; Memory and emotion; Divided attention | Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1969 |
| James T. Todd | Professor: Visual perception and cognition; Perceptual-motor coordination; Computational modeling of sensory processes; Computer graphics | Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1977 |
| Laura Wagner | Assistant Professor: Language Acquisition; Event Representation; Pre-Linguistic Concepts; Connections between Linguistic and Conceptual Development | Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1998 |
