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man with short hair standing in front of a white board with formulas and other writing. William (Bill) D. Thompson
Dept of Psychology
cognition, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, learning, Problem solving, Reasoning, decision-making, Bayesian statistics, natural language processing, machine learning, computational modeling, collective decision-making, social networks
Anne Collins Anne Collins
Dept of Psychology
learning, decision making, computational modeling, executive functions
Alison Gopnik Alison Gopnik
Dept of Psychology
A.I., learning, philosophy, psychology, cognitive development, theory of mind, young children, children's causal knowledge, Bayes Net formalism
Fei Xu Fei Xu
Dept of Psychology
cognitive development, language development, learning mechanisms, statistical learning and statistical inference, conceptual development, developmental psychology, word learning, physical reasoning, social cognition in infants and children, learning in infants and young children, computational models of cognitive development, Bayesian probabilistic models, cognitive development and AI models, psychology and philosophy
photo of Amitai Shenhav Amitai Shenhav
Dept of Psychology
cognitive neuroscience, motivation, decision-making, executive functions, computational modeling
Frederic Theunissen Frederic Theunissen
Dept of Integrative Biology
Dept of Neuroscience
behavior, cognition, brain, psychology, birdsong, vocal learning, audition, neurophysiology, speech perception, computational neuroscience, theoretical neuroscience
Celeste Kidd Celeste Kidd
Dept of Psychology
attention, curiosity, learning, computational modeling, cognitive development, machine learning, belief formation
Zachary Pardos Zachary Pardos
School of Education
knowledge representation, adaptive learning, artificial intelligence, learning analytics, Recommender Systems, higher education, data science, Digital Learning Environments, cognitive modeling, Big Data in Education, Knowledge Tracing, Formative Assessment, intelligent tutoring systems, Online Learning, psychometrics, Educational Data Mining
Michael Silver Michael Silver
Dept of Neuroscience
School of Optometry
cognitive neuroscience, pharmacology, psychedelics, learning, attention, visual perception, neuroimaging
David Whitney David Whitney
Dept of Psychology
cognitive neuroscience, cognition, attention, visual perception, vision, visually guided action, human factors
headshot of Richard Ivry Richard Ivry
Dept of Neuroscience
Dept of Psychology
cognitive neuroscience, behavior, cognition, brain, attention, coordination, psychology, motor and perceptual processes in normal and neurologically impaired populations, temporal processing, executive control
Gasper Begus at UC Berkeley Photo Hagit Caspi Gašper Beguš
Dept of Linguistics
AI interpretability, computational linguistics, AI policy, AI, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, neuroscience, philology, Generative AI, deep learning, speech processing, NLP, phonology, articulatory and acoustic phonetics, historical linguistics, marine biology, language and law, Indo-European linguistics
Michael Ranney Michael Ranney
School of Education
Dept of Psychology
Problem solving, knowledge representation & reorganization, explanatory coherence & inference, conceptual change, societal implications, science instruction, global climate change psychology, numeracy in journalism, naïve/informal physics, computational models of cognition, perceptual-cognitive interactions, intelligent tutoring systems, understandings of biological evolution, Reasoning, qualitative & quantitative thinking
headshot of Philip Cowan Philip Cowan
Dept of Psychology
couple relationships, family factors in children's development, parenting, fatherhood, preventive intervention with families
David Bates David Bates
Dept of Rhetoric
artificial intelligence, enlightenment, early Modern European intellectual history, 20th century European and American intellectual history, history and theory of media and technology, history of political thought
Anne E. Cunningham Anne E. Cunningham
School of Education
education, literacy, reading development, children and technology, teacher professional development
Jack Gallant in outdoor setting Jack L. Gallant
Dept of Neuroscience
computational neuroscience, vision science, attention, fMRI, language, natural scene perception, brain encoding, brain decoding
Terry Regier Terry Regier
Dept of Linguistics
language and thought, computational linguistics, semantic universals, lexical semantics
Jitendra Malik Jitendra Malik
Division of Computer Science (EECS)
computer science, electrical engineering, vision science, computer vision, robotics
Sheri Johnson Sheri Johnson
Dept of Psychology
bipolar disorder, healthy lifestyles, time-restricted eating, impulsivity, suicidality, community-engaged research / scholarship
Kurt C. Organista Kurt C. Organista
School of Social Welfare
social welfare, race/ethnicity, HIV prevention, social behavior
Keanan Joyner Keanan Joyner
Dept of Psychology
alcohol and substance use disorder, externalizing, electroencephalogram (EEG), event-related potentials, ecological momentary assessment, behavioral economics, behavioral genetics
Dor Abrahamson Dor Abrahamson
School of Education
mathematical cognition, design-based research, mixed-media design for mathematics learning environments, embodied interaction
Jorge Otero-Millan Jorge Otero-Millan
School of Optometry
ocular motor control, vision while moving, measuring eye movements, eye movements for diagnosis
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