Core Graduate Program Faculty

Ramesh Balasubramaniam (Fall 2013) cognitive, neurophysiological, and dynamical systems approaches to action

Rick Dale conversation, language evolution, dynamical systems, philosophy of cognitive science

Evan Heit experimental and computational approaches to reasoning, memory, and categorization

Chris Kello neural networks, complex systems, speech, language, search

Paul Maglio human-computer interaction, distributed cognition, service science

Teenie Matlock cognitive linguistics, experimental semantics, human-computer interaction

David Noelle computational cognitive neuroscience, learning and memory, cognitive control

Michael Spivey language processing, eye movements, embodied cognition, dynamical systems

Anne Warlaumont neural networks, emergence of vocal communication, infant-caregiver interaction

Jeffrey Yoshimi philosophy of cognitive science, dynamical systems theory, neural networks

Affiliate Graduate Program Faculty

Our graduate program also has a number of affiliate faculty, who sometimes serve as both collaborators and committee members.

David Ardell, Molecular Cell Biology

Stefano Carpin, Engineering

Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán, Engineering

Yihsu Chen*, Engineering

Jeff Gilger, Psychology

Marcelo Kallman, Engineering

Holley Moyes, Anthropology

Shawn Newsam, Engineering

Steve Nicholson, Political Science

Peter Vanderschraaf*, Philosophy

Tony Westerling*, Engineering

Ming-Hsuan Yang, Engineering

* = also primary members of the Cognitive and Information Sciences Academic Personnel Unit

Our Broader CogSci Community

As an active cognitive science community, our diverse seminar series and broad collaborations often bring together researchers from multiple groups in the university. Friends of CogSci @ UC Merced include:

Gregg Camfield, Literature

Alberto Cerpa, Computer Science and Engineering

Michael Colvin, Computational Biology

Lilian Davila, Computational Materials Science

Michael Dawson, Quantitative and Systems Biology

Maurizio Forte, World Heritage

Ajay Gopinathan, Quantitative and Systems Biology

Qinghua Guo, Environmental Engineering

Linda Hirst, Nanoscience and of Physics

Arnold Kim, Computational Biology

Lara Kueppers, Ecology

Ruth Mostern, History

Jason Raymond, Biochemistry

Lin Tian, Physics

Ming-Hsuan Yang, Engineering