Faculty

Regular Faculty

Carmel Levitan, Chair

Professor, Cognitive Science

B.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., UC Berkeley

Carmel Levitan studies multisensory interactions, researching how the different senses integrate information.

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Carolyn Brighouse

Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs; Professor, Cognitive Science, Philosophy

B.A., University of Liverpool; M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California

Caro Brighouse's interests include philosophy of science, philosophy of space and time, and philosophy of physics.

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Shengyun Gu

Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science

B.A., Tianjin Medical University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Connecticut; Ph.D., East China Normal University

Shengyun Gu is a linguist whose research aims to better understand language (including its structure, acquisition, and processing) through the lens of Shanghai Sign Language and American Sign Language (ASL).

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Justin Li

Associate Professor, Cognitive Science and Computer Science

B.S., Northwestern University; Ph.D, University of Michigan

Justin Li teaches in cognitive science and computer science, and is interested in how people and artificial agents perform knowledge search.

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Stephanie Nelli

Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science

B.A., UNC Chapel Hill; Ph.D., UC San Diego

Stephanie Nelli uses neuroscience and machine learning to study the computational principles underlying rapid learning and flexible decision-making.

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Aleksandra (Sasha) Sherman

Associate Professor, Cognitive Science

B.A., Rutgers University; Ph.D., Northwestern University

Research areas: psychology of art, art perception, and multisensory perception.

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Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Alan Knoerr

Associate Professor, Mathematics, Cognitive Science, Emeritus

B.A., Oberlin College; Sc.M., Ph.D., Brown University

Alan Knoerr is an applied mathematician who teaches a broad range of courses in mathematics; he also teaches in the cognitive science and computer science programs.

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Dylan Sabo

Resident Associate Professor, Philosophy, Cognitive Science

Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Dylan Sabo’s areas of philosophical interest include philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of language.

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Kevin Urstadt

Resident Associate Professor, Cognitive Science

B.A., Rutgers; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

Kevin Urstadt's research interests include functional neuroanatomy, neuroscience of addiction, and neurocircuitry of hunger.

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Advisory Committee

Michael Shelton

Professor, Spanish and French Studies

B.S., St. Cloud State University; M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Michael Shelton is a linguist, specializing in phonology and psycholinguistics.

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Affiliated Faculty

Mariška Bolyanatz Brown

Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies

B.A., Gordon College, Massachusetts; M.A., University of Illinois, Chicago; Ph.D., UCLA

Mariška Bolyanatz Brown (IPA: [məˈɾiʃkə boʊliˈɑnɪts bɹɑʊn]) is a linguist whose work focuses on socially conditioned variation in speech production and perception in Spanish.

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Emeriti/ae Faculty

Diana Card Linden

Professor, Cognitive Science, Emerita (1982-2017)

Cognitive Science

linden@oxy.edu

Linden is a neurobiologist and educational therapist studying cognitive abilities in individuals of all ages.

Saul Traiger

Professor, Cognitive Science, Philosophy; Emeritus (1985-2021)

Philosophy

Cognitive Science

traiger@oxy.edu

Saul Traiger teaches courses in 17th- and 18th-century philosophy, the foundations of cognitive science, contemporary epistemology, and the philosophy of mind.

Faculty

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Carmel Levitan, Chair

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