Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscientists investigate higher order functions of the brain, underlying perception, cognition and consciousness. The UC Davis Neuroscience Consortium has a large number of faculty working at this level: 64 faculty members from 13 departments and 11 centers.
Faculty studying cognition
| Leonard Abbeduto, Ph.D. | Language development, assessment, and intervention in neurodevelopmental disabilities |
| Karen L. Bales, Ph.D. | Behavioral neuroscience of social bonds |
| Melissa D. Bauman, Ph.D. | Behavioral neuroscience, prenatal risk factors for neurodevelopmental disorders |
| David Bissig, M.D., Ph.D. | Alzheimer's disease; dementia |
| Eliza Bliss-Moreau, Ph.D. | Affective neuroscience |
| Erie D. Boorman, Ph.D. | Learning and decision-making |
| Lindsay C. Bowman, Ph.D. | Cognitive and environmental factors that influence development of the social brain |
| Rishidev Chaudhuri, Ph.D. | Computational neuroscience and neural data analysis |
| Xiaomo Chen, Ph.D. | Cognitive control and attention |
| David P. Corina, Ph.D. | Cognitive neuroscience of language and cognition |
| Jacqueline N. Crawley, Ph.D. | Understanding genetic causes of autism and developing effective therapeutics using mouse models |
| Charles S. DeCarli, M.D. | Advanced imaging tools, cognitive aging and dementia |
| Sarah Tomaszewski Farias, Ph.D. | Cognitive aging and dementia; early disease detection; life-course risk and protective factors; and behavioral interventions to delay cognitive and functional loss |
| Fernanda Ferreira, Ph.D. | Investigating how humans use language in real time and in cooperation with other cognitive systems. |
| Joy J. Geng, Ph.D. | Mechanisms of attentional control |
| Simona Ghetti, Ph.D. | Development of memory and metamemory |
| Katharine Graf-Estes, Ph.D. | Mechanisms that support early learning in infants from statistical regularities in language |
| Amanda E. Guyer, Ph.D. | Adolescent neurodevelopment in health and depression, anxiety and substance use |
| Tim Hanks, Ph.D. | Neural mechanisms of decision making and related disorders of brain function |
| Danielle Harvey, Ph.D. | Statistical analysis of complex correlated data; neuroimaging; longitudinal studies |
| Paul Hastings, Ph.D. | Development of physiological, social and emotional functioning from early childhood into adulthood |
| John M. Henderson, Ph.D. | Active vision and visual cognition |
| David Hessl, Ph.D. | Child clinical psychology; neuropsychology |
| Richard Huskey, Ph.D. | Cognitive control, decision-making and reward, neuroimaging, computational and behavioral modeling |
| Petr Janata, Ph.D. | Cognitive neuroscience of music |
| Zhaodan Kong, PhD | Robotics, human-autonomy teaming, control theory, machine learning, neuroengineering |
| Neal Kroll, Ph.D. | Human memory |
| Kristin Lagattuta, Ph.D. | Age-related changes and individual differences in emotion understanding, theory of mind, moral cognition, and past-to-future reasoning |
| Kevin Laugero, Ph.D. | Stress and nutrition interrelationships |
| Pamela J. Lein, Ph.D. | Impacts of environmental stressors on the developing and aging brain |
| Steven J. Luck, Ph.D. | Basic and translational cognitive neuroscience |
| Richard Maddock, M.D. | Anxiety disorders, magnetic resonance spectroscopy meditation |
| George (Ron) Mangun, Ph.D. | Cognitive neuroscience of attention |
| A. Kimberley McAllister, Ph.D. | Synapse formation and plasticity; neuroimmune contributions to development and disease |
| Oanh Meyer, Ph.D., M.A.S. | Cognitive and mental health disparities in racial/ethnic minorities and older adults |
| Lee M. Miller, Ph.D, | Auditory neuroscience and speech recognition |
| John H. Morrison, Ph.D. | Neurobiology of aging and neurodegenerative disorders; cortical structure and function |
| Karen Moxon, Ph.D. | Neural encoding and plasticity, neuroprosthetics, neuroengineering, brain-machine interfaces |
| Yuko Munakata, Ph.D. | Cognitive control over thoughts and actions, influences, consequences and mechanisms |
| Beth Ober, Ph.D. | Biological, Cognitive, Health and Mental Health Life Phases: Adulthood, Aging |
| John M. Olichney, M.D. | Alzheimer's disease; dementia |
| Temitayo Oyegbile-Chidi MD, PhD | Epilepsy and sleep disorders in children and young adults |
| Carolynn Patten, Ph.D., P.T., F.A.P.T.A. | Neural basis of human movement, investigating human motor control and learning from a perspective of neuromechanics |
| Elizabeth Prado, Ph.D. | Nutritional and other neurodevelopmental risks associated with poverty |
| Dan Ragland, Ph.D. | Behavioral, functional neuroimaging and electrophysiology methods; brain networks in learning and memory; effects of schizophrenia on learning and memory |
| Charan Ranganath, Ph.D. | Neural basis and functional organization of human learning and memory |
| Stephen K. Robinson, Ph.D. | Augmentation and extension of human capabilities and performance in safety-critical environments. |
| Julie Schweitzer, Ph.D. | Attention and impulsivity in children and adults in typical development and in ADHD |
| Kia Shahlaie, M.D., Ph.D. | Deep brain stimulation techniques to improve learning and memory function; traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease |
| Daniel I. Shapiro, Ph.D. | Early identification of and treatment for mental illness |
| Jeffrey Sherman, Ph.D. | Cognitive processes underlying social psychology and behavior; stereotyping and prejudice |
| Jill L. Silverman, Ph.D. | Curative, precision strategies for single gene caused neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), intellectual disabilities and pediatric epilepsies |
| Tony Simon, Ph.D. | Attention, and spatial and temporal processing in development and neurodevelopmental disorders |
| Marjorie Solomon, Ph.D., M.B.A. | Cognitive neuroscience and autism specturm disorders |
| Mitchell Sutter, Ph.D. | Neural mechanisms of sound perception and modulation by attention, decisions, actions |
| Tamara Swaab, Ph.D. | Cognitive and Neural Architectures of Language Processing across the Lifespan |
| Johnna Swartz, Ph.D. | Brain development and the development of mood and anxiety disorders |
| Alyssa Weakley, Ph.D. | Novel technology-based approaches to support cognition, daily function, and quality of life. |
| Jennifer L. Whistler, Ph.D. | Effects of clinically important drugs and drugs of abuse on the brain |
| Brian Wiltgen, Ph.D. | Neurobiology of learning and memory |
| Andrew Yonelinas, Ph.D. | Memory, perception and amnesia |
| Jie (JZ) Zheng, Ph.D. | Human memory and emotion, human intracranial electrophysiology and neuromodulation |