Participating Faculty# Feel free to get in touch!# Name Role email Research Description and Lab Webpage Christina Gremel Associate Professor and Program Director cgremel@ucsd.edu Examines the neural mechanisms of decision-making and their disruption in drug dependence John Serences Professor jserences@ucsd.edu Examines neural and computational mechanisms that support selective attention and short-term memory Lindsey Powell Assistant Professor ljpowell@ucsd.edu Investigates the early development of social cognition and motivation Adam Aron Professor adamaron@ucsd.edu Researching how to shift beliefs and attitudes on the threat posed by human-caused global heating and how to bolster the ranks of collective action to end fossil energy and fossil finance Dave Barner Professor dbarner@ucsd.edu Investigates how children acquire abstract, uniquely human, concepts Tim Brady Associate Professor timbrady@ucsd.edu Investigates the intersection of visual cognition and memory, studying the capacity of visual memory and what visual information is best remembered Leslie Carver Professor ljcarver@ucsd.edu Investigates early social and cognitive development in typically developing infants, and those with a family history of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Karen Dobkins Professor kdobkins@ucsd.edu Investigate the components and mechanisms of human flourishing (e.g., personal well-being, compassion, connection to nature) vs. human suffering (loneliness, depression, discrimination) Nick Oesch Assistant Research Professor noesch@ucsd.edu How do neurons in the retina process information leading to perception and behavior? Dj Bambah-Mukku Assistant Professor bambahmukku@ucsd.edu How are neural circuits modulated by the sex, age and physiological state? Vic Ferreira Professor vferreira@ucsd.edu Research focuses on language production and communication Tim Gentner Professor tgentner@ucsd.edu Investigates the neural mechanisms that govern the sensory, perceptual, cognitive, and motor processing of acoustic communication signals and real-world sounds Gail Heyman Professor gheyman@ucsd.edu Investigate topics at the intersection of social and cognitive development, including how children make sense of the social world, and factors that affect their moral behavior Cory Miller Associate Professor comiller@ucsd.edu Investigates the neural basis of natural behavior in the primate brain
