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Steven K. Shevell

Eliakim Hastings Moore Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology and Ophthalmology & Visual Science

Office: BPSB 125D | Lab: BPSB 112

Phone: (773) 702-8842 | Lab: (773) 702-9412

shevell@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Human vision (especially color vision); mathematical psychology

Steven Shevell is a professor of Psychology and of Ophthalmology & Visual Science and a faculty member in the graduate program in Computational Neuros...

Richard A. Shweder

Harold Higgins Swift Distinguished Service Professor

Office: Rosenwald Hall 305B

Phone: (773) 702-1524

rshd@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Psychological anthropology and cultural psychology, with special reference to the anthropology of thought and cross-cultural human development; symbol systems and intellectual processes; cultural belief systems; culture and moral development; rationality and moral reasoning; person perception; concepts of the person; culture and health behavior; multiculturalism, immigration and norm conflict between cultures.

Richard A. Shweder is a cultural anthropologist and the Harold Higgins Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development at the University of...

Edward K. Vogel

Professor

Office: BPSB 125A

Phone: (773) 834-3816

edvogel@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Attention; memory capacity; individual differences in cognition; neural measures of working memory

Ed Vogel is a professor in the Department of Psychology, The Institute for Mind and Biology, and the Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative...

Amanda Woodward

William S. Gray Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology; Dean, Division of the Social Sciences

Office: Green Hall 412 | Labs: Green Hall 212-216, 222

Phone: (773) 834-1375

woodward@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Infant Cognition; social cognitive development; imitation; theory of mind

Amanda Woodward, who has served as Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences since 2017, is the William S. Gray Distinguished Service Professor of P...

Jai Yu

Assistant Professor

Office: BPSB 328

Phone: (773) 834-7836

jaiyu@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Memory formation; knowledge creation; neural correlates of experience, memory and knowledge across brain states; activity coordination across multiple brain regions; neural circuits; behavioral neuroscience; computational neuroscience

Jai Yu joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in July 2020. His research aims to understand the neurophysiological mechanisms that enable the cr...