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CCNS DIRECTORS

Gregory Hickok Gregory S. Hickok
Director of CCNS
Professor, Cognitive Sciences, School of Social Sciences
PH.D., Brandeis University
Research Interests: neuroanatomy of language, neural plasticity, neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience
Lab: Laboratory for Cognitive Brain Research
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Emily Grossman Emily Grossman
Associate Director of CCNS
Assistant Professor, Cognitive Sciences, School of Social Sciences
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 2002, Psychology
Research Interests: neural basis of visual perception, biological motion
Lab: Visual Perception and Neural Imaging
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CCNS FACULTY

Alyssa Brewer Alyssa A. Brewer
Assistant Professor, Cognitive Sciences
School of Social Sciences
M.D., Stanford Medical School
Ph.D., Neuroscience, Stanford University
Research interests: neuroimaging of visual perception, visual deficits, and neurological disorders
Lab: Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
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Lawrence Cahill

Lawrence Cahill
Associate Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior
School of Biological Sciences
PH.D., University of California, Irvine, 1990
Research interests: neural mechanisms of emotionally influenced memory
Lab: Cahill Lab
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Chuansheng Chen Chuansheng Chen
Psychology and Social Behavior
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Interests: Culture, ethnicity, and adolescent development; brain imaging of language and mathematical learning; culture and creativity; methodological issues in cross-cultural research
Lab: Laboratory for Within-Culture and Cross-Cultural Studies of Human Development
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Steven Cramer Steven Cramer
Associate Professor, Neurology School of Medicine
Associate Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine
M.D., University of Southern California, 1988, Medicine
M.S., Harvard Medical School, 1997, Clinical Investigation
Research interests: Stroke; Spinal Cord Injury; Motor System; Plasticity after CNS Injury; Brain Imaging
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Charlie Chubb Charlie Chubb
Professor, Cognitive Sciences
School of Social Sciences
Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, NYU, 1985
Research Interests: Visual perception, Mathematical modeling, Histogram contrast analysis
Lab: Movement and Vision Lab
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Barbara Dosher Barbara Dosher
Dean and Professor, Cognitive Sciences
School of Social Sciences
Ph.D. University of Oregon 1977
Research interests: Human information processing, memory retrieval, attention, visual perception
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  Ron Frostig
Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior
Ph.D. UCLA 1985
Research interests: Functional imaging of cortical plasticity
Lab: Frostig Lab
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Nicole Gage Nicole Gage
Assistant Researcher
Director, Cognitive Neurosciences of Language Lab
Research interests: neural substrates of human speech and language, using behavioral, psychophysical, and neuroimaging (magnetoencephalography, or MEG) techniques, with parallel lines of investigation: healthy adults and children, and children with neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism.
Lab: Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lab
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Donald D. Hoffman Donald D. Hoffman
Professor, Cognitive Sciences, School of Social Sciences
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science
Professor, Philosophy, School of Humanities
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983
Research interests: Vision, mind-body problem
Lab: http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/
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Jeffrey Krichmar Jeffrey Krichmar
Assistant Professor, Cognitive Sciences
School of Social Sciences
Ph.D., George Mason University
Research Interests: cognitive robotics, computational models of learning and memory, effect of neural architecture on neural function, embodiment
Lab: http://vesicle.nsi.edu/nomad/
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Frithjof Kruggel
M.D., Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Germany, 1989
Research interests
: Biomedical image analysis, brain functioning, morphometry of the human brain
Lab: http://sip.eng.uci.edu/

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David Lyon
Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine
Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, 2001
Research interests: Visual Cortex, Dorsal Pathway, Pulvinar Nucleus, Optical Imaging, Single Cell Electroporation, Rabies Virus
Lab: http://www.ucihs.uci.edu/anatomy/lyon.html
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James McGaugh
Research Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior
School of Biological Sciences
Ph.D. Physiological Psychology, UC Berkeley 1959
Research interests: Neurobiology of learning and memory
Lab: McGaugh Lab
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Lutfi Tugan Muftuler
Assistant Professor in residence, Department of Radiological Sciences
Affiliated faculty of Cognitive Sciences
Research interests: High field system development, fMRI, MREIT
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Michael Derek Rugg
Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior
School of Biological Sciences Director, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
Ph.D., University of Leicester, 1979, Psychology
Research Interests: Cognitive and neural bases of human memory; age-related changes in memory function
Lab: Functional NeuroImaging of Memory Laboratory
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Kourosh Saberi
Associate Professor, Cognitive Sciences, School of Social Sciences
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1993
Research Interests: Auditory perception and neuroimaging, music perception, spatial hearing, psychophysics
Lab: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~saberi/
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John Serences
Assistant Professor, Cognitive Sciences, School of Social Sciences
Ph.D., John Hopkins University
Research Interests: Cognitive neuroscience of perception and cognitive control
Lab: Perception and Cognitive Control Lab
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George Sperling
UCI Distinguished Professor, Cognitive Sciences, School of Social Sciences
UCI Distinguished Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior, School of Biological Sciences
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1959
Research Interests: Empirical studies of human information processing. Mathematical, computational, and neural models of visual processes. Brain imaging: EEG, MEG, fMRI.
Lab: Human Information Processing Laboratory
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Ramesh Srinivasan
Associate Professor, Cognitive Sciences, School of Social Sciences
Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University
Research Interests: Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain Development, Consciousness, Perception, EEG, Brain Dynamics
Lab: Human Neuroscience Laboratory
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Charles E. Wright
Associate Professor, Cognitive Sciences, School of Social Sciences
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Interests: Cognitive psychology, human motor control, Fitts task, aimed movements, handwriting, immersive virtual reality, 1/f noise, quantitative models.
Lab: Movement and Vision Lab
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Norman M. Weinberger
Research Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior, School of Biological Sciences
Ph.D., Western Reserve University, 1961, Psychology
Research Interests: Neurobiology of learning and memory, cortical plasticity, auditory system, cholinergic function, music
Lab: Weinberger Laboratory
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Mary Louise Kean
Professor, Cognitive Sciences, School of Social Sciences
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975, Linguistics
Research Interests: Cognitive neuropsychology, biological foundation of higher mental processes
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Fan-Gang Zeng
Professor, Otolaryngology
School of Medicine PH.D., Syracuse University, 1990
Research interests: Cochlear Implant, Auditory Neuroscience, Psychophysics, Speech Perception, Auditory Neuropathy
Lab:
www.ucihs.uci.edu/hesp/research.html
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