Faculty
An asterisk (*) indicates faculty recruiting graduate students.
An asterisk (*) indicates faculty recruiting graduate students.
Associate Professor
website
stephana@ucsd.edu
(858) 224-3164
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Addiction, and Intelligence.
Professor
website
adamaron@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-1096
Social Psychology of Collective Action on the Climate Crisis
Assistant Professor
Neurobiology of social behavior, Molecular analysis of neural circuits, Comparative neurobiology.
Professor
Language acquisition, conceptual development, number representation.
Professor
Visual cognition, working memory, long-term memory.
Assistant Professor
Memory and misinformation across the adult lifespan.
Distinguished Professor
sandrabrown@ucsd.edu
(858) 444-6652
Alcohol and drug abuse across the life span.
Professor
website
ljcarver@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-4634
Brain basis of cognitive and social development.
Assistant Teaching Professor
echapman@ucsd.edu
Personality theories of psychopathology, development and treatment.
Assistant Teaching Professor
Sexual well-being, gender and sexual orientation, sexual fluidity, neural and physiological indicators of sexual response.
Professor
Mental well-being, climate change beliefs, dehumanization, sexuality and relationships.
Professor
website
vferreira@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-6303
Psycholinguistics and language production, computational modelling.
Associate Teaching Professor
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egeller@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-2555
Science of learning and instruction.
Professor
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tgentner@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-6763
Behavioral neurobiology, auditory perception and cognition, animal communication.
Professor
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mgorman@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-2466
Biological rhythms and behavioral neuroendocrinology.
Professor
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cgremel@ucsd.edu
(858) 534 -8933
Behavioral neuroscience, neural bases of decision-making and addiction.
Professor
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charris@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-4507
Human Emotion.
Professor
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gheyman@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-2482
Social cognition, social and cultural influences on development.
Assistant Professor
Computational social cognitive neuroscience; naturalistic fMRI; social interactions; person representation; psychological game-theory; artificial intelligence & affective computing; open-source software development.
Assistant Professor
Social Cognition, Person Perception, Computational modeling
Assistant Professor
Development of perception and cognition; early word learning; computational modeling.
Professor
Evolutionary psychology, prosocial behavior, empathy, forgiveness and revenge.
Professor
website
cmckenzie@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-8075
Judgment, decision-making, and reasoning.
Professor
Neuroscience and Behavior.
Associate Teaching Professor
Cognition and instruction.
Assistant Professor
Infant cognition and brain function; social development; social learning
Professor
Human learning and knowledge representation from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience.
Associate Professor
website
schachner@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-3676
Social cognition, cognitive development, causal inference, mental state inference, music cognition.
Professor & DEPARTMENT CHAIR
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jserences@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-3686
Attention and perceptual decision making.
Associate Professor
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carenwalker@ucsd.edu
(858) 246-2434
Cognitive development, causal inference, abstract reasoning, concept acquisition, imagination.
Professor
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pwinkielman@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-0682
Distinguished Professor
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jwixted@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-3956
Human memory, animal cognition, psychopathology.
Other Researchers Recruiting Graduate Students
Associate Research Scientist
Emeritus Professor
sanstis@ucsd.edu
Visual perception, motion perception, auditory and tactual perception, and cross-model integration.
President Emeritus
rca@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-3979
Mathematical and cognitive psychology.
Emeritus Distinguished Professor
mcole@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-2989
The effects of culture on cognitive development.
Emeritus Professor
ddeutsch@ucsd.edu
(858) 453-1558
Music perception, auditory illusions.
Emeritus Professor
vkonecni@ucsd.edu
Social psychology, psychology of music, experimental aesthetics, psychology of law.
Emeritus Professor
jkulik@ucsd.edu
Social psychology, behavioral medicine.
Emeritus Professor
dmacleod@ucsd.edu
Visual mechanisms in humans.
Emeritus Professor
jmandler@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-3937
Cognitive development.
Emeritus Distinguished Professor
dnorman@ucsd.edu
Founding Director, Design Lab, UC San Diego (now emeritus)
Emeritus Distinguished Professor
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hpashler@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-3974
Human learning, attention, cognition.
Emeritus Distinguished Professor
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vramachandran@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-6240 or (858) 534-7907
Cognitive neuroscience, vision, perception, physiological psychology.
Emeritus Distinguished Professor
lschreibman@ucsd.edu
Behavior modification, infantile autism, applied behavior analysis.
Emeritus Distinguished Professor
website
lsquire@ucsd.edu
(858) 642-3628
Biology of memory, human amnesia.
Emeritus Professor
bawilliams@ucsd.edu
Learning and motivation, history of psychology.
Ebbe Ebbesen