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Affiliated Faculty Research in Cognitive Science

  • Benjamin Bergen

    Dr. Benjamin Bergen’s research focuses on language, cognition, computation, and the brain.

    bkbergen@ucsd.edu | website

  • Lera Boroditsky

    Dr. Lera Boroditsky’s research investigates the relationship between the mind, world, and language. In addition, her research looks at how humans create meaning, imagine, use knowledge, and how the languages we speak shape the ways we think.

    lera@ucsd.edu | website

  • Sarah Creel

    Dr. Sarah Creel’s research interests are: language development, word recognition, eye tracking, cognitive control, and music perception.

    screel@ucsd.edu | website

  • Gedeon Deak

    Dr. Gedeon Deak’s research interests are: categorizations and generalization in children, cognitive flexibility and its development in children, flexible cognition and human language, embodied learning models of social development, infant-parent communication and joint attention, logical skill and metacognition in children, and word learning in children.

    gdeak@ucsd.edu | website

  • Terry Jernigan

    Dr. Terry Jernigan’s research investigates brain development and neuropsychiatric conditions using brain imaging techniques, specifically magnetic resonance imaging. Her work also looks at the development of human brain architectures, behavioral phenotypes, and individual differences in social, emotional, and cognitive functions.

    tjernigan@ucsd.edu | website

  • Jamie Pineda

    Dr. Jamie Pineda’s research has investigated the neurobiology of social cognition, attention, face perception, addiction, monoamines, and brain-computer interfaces.

    jpineda@ucsd.edu