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Cognitive Science
Dr. Dedre Gentner
Director
Cognitive Science
Northwestern University
2029 Sheridan Road, #214
Evanston, IL 60201-2710
Email: cogsci@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 467-2035
Fax: (847) 491-7859
Web: http://www.cogsci.northwestern.edu/

Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the mind, combining knowledge and expertise from multiple disciplines—computer science, psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, and biology, among other fields. In addition to an undergraduate major, the Cognitive Science Program offers a number of mechanisms for facilitating graduate education and research. These include a certificate program, fellowship support for incoming and advanced graduate students, travel grants, tutorials, and a visiting speaker series.

Faculty

The primary appointment for those faculty with joint or affiliate status in another program is noted in parentheses.

Professors: Galen V. Bodenhausen (Psychology), James R. Booth (Communication Sciences & Disorders), Ann R. Bradlow (Linguistics), Justine M. Cassell (Communication Studies), Allan M. Collins, Daniel C. Edelson, Kenneth D. Forbus (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science), Dedre Gentner (Psychology), Darren Gitelman, Robert O. Gjerdingen (Music), Sanford C. Goldberg (Philosophy), Louis M. Gomez (Education & Social Policy), Robert A. Gundlach, Kristian J. Hammond (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science), James Charles Houk (Physiology), Nina Kraus (Communication Sciences & Disorders), Carol D. Lee (Education & Social Policy), Dan P. McAdams (Education & Social Policy), Douglas L. Medin (Psychology), Marek-Marsel Mesulam (Cogn Neur&Alzheimers Dis), Donald A. Norman, Andrew J. Ortony (Education & Social Policy), Kenneth Alan Paller (Psychology), Penelope L. Peterson (Education & Social Policy), Janet B. Pierrehumbert (Linguistics), Brian Reiser (Education & Social Policy), William R. Revelle (Psychology), Lance Rips (Psychology), Joel P. Rosenfeld (Psychology), Sara A. Solla (Physiology), Brian Sternthal (Marketing), Cynthia K. Thompson (Communication Sciences & Disorders), Leigh Thompson (Management and Organizations), Gregory Ward (Linguistics), Sandra R. Waxman (Psychology), Peter Richard Webster (Music), Sandra Weintraub, Laura Ann Wilber, Uriel J. Wilensky (Education & Social Policy), Beverly Ann Wright (Communication Sciences & Disorders)
Associate Professors: Richard D. Ashley (Music), Lawrence A. Birnbaum (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science), Amy Elizabeth Booth (Communication Sciences & Disorders), Christian M. Brendl (Marketing), Wendi L. Gardner (Psychology), Matthew A. Goldrick (Linguistics), Susan J. Hespos (Psychology), Ian D. Horswill (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science), Mark Elliot Jung Beeman (Psychology), Stefan H. Kaufmann (Linguistics), Jennifer Amy Lackey (Philosophy), Viorica Marian (Communication Sciences & Disorders), David Neil Rapp (Education & Social Policy), Paul J. Reber (Psychology), Baron Wayne Reed (Philosophy), Jennifer Anne Richeson (Psychology), Christopher K. Riesbeck (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science), Bruce L. Sherin (Education & Social Policy), Miriam G. Sherin (Education & Social Policy), Satoru Suzuki (Psychology), Patrick C. Wong (Communication Sciences & Disorders)
Assistant Professors: Joan y Chiao (Psychology), Brady Z. Clark (Linguistics), Steven Franconeri (Psychology), Darren Robert Gergle (Communication Studies), Jay A. Gottfried (Neurology), Marcia Grabowecky, William S. Horton (Psychology), Jessica Maye (Communication Sciences & Disorders), Bryan A. Pardo (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science), Dongsun Yim (Communication Sciences & Disorders), Masaya Yoshida (Linguistics)
Adjunct Professors: Linda Uttal