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Edward S. Awh
Behavioral and neural studies of memory and attention
Ed Awh is a professor in the Department of Psychology, The Institute for Mind and Biology, and the Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative B...
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Xuechunzi Bai
Stereotypes, diversity, computational social psychology
Xuechunzi Bai joined the Department of Psychology as an Assistant Professor in July 2024. Dr. Bai completed her A.B. degree at the University of Tokyo...
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Wilma A. Bainbridge
The intrinsic memorability of images; multi-modal approaches to memorability/memory; intersection of perception and memory; the visual content of long-term memories; neuroscience of memory; computational techniques: machine learning, computer vision; deep neural networks
Wilma A. Bainbridge is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology. She received her B.A. in Cognitive Science from Yale University, studyi...
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Akram Bakkour
Cognitive neuroscience; neuroeconomics; computational psychiatry; learning and memory; decision making
Akram Bakkour joined the Department of Psychology as an Assistant Professor in July 2020. He received his undergraduate degree in Neuroscience from Br...
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Marc G. Berman
The ability of natural environments to improve affect, attention and memory; brain network efficiency and its relationship to broad behaviors (e.g., self-control); multivariate analysis; motivation and effort; worry, rumination, and depression; environmental neuroscience
Marc Berman is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and is involved in the Cognition, Social and Integrative Neuroscience programs. Understandi...
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Lin Bian
Social cognition; stereotypes and biases; motivation; intergroup relations; sociomoral reasoning
Lin Bian joined the Department of Psychology as an Assistant Professor in 2021. Before moving to the University of Chicago, she was the Evalyn Edwards...
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Jean Decety
Behavioral economics; developmental psychology; emotion and empathy; functional and structural neuroimaging; morality and social decision-making; political psychology and neuroscience; psychopathy; social neuroscience; social norms
Jean Decety is the Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and the College. Professor Decety received a Ph.D....
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Lydia Emery
Close Relationships, Social Class, the Self
Lydia Emery joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2023. She received her B.A. in Psychology and English from Haverford College and her Ph.D....
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David A. Gallo
Memory accuracy and distortion; healthy aging and Alzheimer’s disease; metacognitive and nonconscious processes; cognitive neuroscience and evolution
David A. Gallo joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2005. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1997, his Ph.D. from Washingt...
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Susan Goldin-Meadow
Language development and creation; gesture’s role in communicating, thinking, and learning
Susan Goldin-Meadow is the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Comparative Human Development at the Un...
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Kyshia Henderson
Kyshia Henderson joined the department in 2023 as a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow. She received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Californ...
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Leslie M. Kay
Roles of context in perception; olfactory neurophysiology; olfaction and cognition; sensorimotor integration; oscillatory dynamics; computational neuroscience; behavioral neuroscience
I received my BA in Liberal Arts from St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico and then worked for the original GenBank project at Los Alamos Nation...
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