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Brain and Cognition Division
The Brain and Cognition division offers a comprehensive program in Cognitive Neuroscience, encompassing both human and animal approaches to questions about functional organization and neural architecture of cognition. Specific areas of faculty interest include memory, attention and performance, aging, language, emotion, and the development and refinement of brain imaging methods. The research of the faculty in this division makes use of a vast array of methods, including functional and structural MRI, psychophysiological recordings (e.g., ERP, MEG), eye-tracking, neuropsychological testing, and optical readings (EROS and NIRS)in humans, as well as single unit recording, and pharmacological and lesion preparations in animals.
Because of the highly collaborative nature of the work of members of this division and the hands-on methodological training offered, students in the program have exposure to, and are encouraged to gain direct experience with, a number of these methods. This program is strongly research oriented. Each student works directly with a faculty adviser on original research from the onset of his/her graduate career, including the conducting of a first-year project.
Brain and Cognition Division Faculty| Diane M. Beck (Assistant Professor) |  | Cognitive and neural mechanisms of visual attention, awareness, and perception. | | Office: Room 531 | (217) 244-1118 | dmbeck AT uiuc DOT edu |
| Neal J Cohen (Professor) |  | Interdisciplinary, cognitive neuroscience study of human learning and memory, with a focus on identifying and characterizing the brain's multiple memory systems, particularly the hippocampal system, through the study of amnesia. | | Office: Room Beckman 2165 | (217) 244-4339 | njc@uiuc.edu |
| Florin Dolcos (Assistant Professor - Fall 2010) |  | Neural correlates of affective-cognitive interactions in healthy and clinical populations. We use functional neuroimaging methods (e.g., fMRI, ERP) in conjunction with electrophysiological (e.g., skin conductance) and behavioral (e.g., performance in cognitive tasks, personality questionnaires) measurements. | | Office: Room TBA | | fdolcos@cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu |
| Monica Fabiani (Professor) |  | Memory; cognition and aging; neuroimaging; optical imaging; cognitive neuroscience. | | Office: Room 517 | (217) 244-1117 | mfabiani@illinois.edu |
| Kara D. Federmeier (Associate Professor) |  | Neurobiological basis of meaning, including how world knowledge derived from multiple modalities is organized in the brain, how it is used during language comprehension, and how it is accessed and used by the two cerebral hemispheres. | | Office: Room 831 | (217) 333-8303 | kfederme AT illinois DOT edu |
| Susan M. Garnsey (Associate Professor & Associate Head for Graduate Affairs) |  | Language processing; resolution of syntactic and lexical ambiguity and context effects on that resolution; the effect of prosody on disambiguation; on-line techniques for measuring language comprehension; word recognition; and language/brain relationships. | | Office: Room 810 | (217) 244-1120 | sgarnsey@psych.illinois.edu |
| Paul E. Gold (Professor) |  | Cellular, molecular, and systems regulation of learning, memory and neural plasticity in rodents, including in models of aging, stress, and mental retardation. | | Office: Room 529 | (217) 244-0673 | pgold@illinois.edu |
| Brian D. Gonsalves (Assistant Professor) |  | Functional MRI & ERP investigations of human memory. | | Office: Room 530 | 244-1713 | bgon AT uiuc DOT edu |
| Gabriele Gratton (Professor) |  | Gabriele Gratton's interests are in cognitive neuroscience and attention and performance. | | Office: Room 519 | (217) 244-1019 | grattong@uiuc.edu |
| Donna L Korol (Associate Professor) |  | Neural mechanisms of learning, memory, and forgetting in rodents with an emphasis on life-span changes in modulation of synaptic plasticity by exercise and hormones. | | Office: Room 525 | (217) 333-3659 | dkorol@illinois.edu |
| Gregory A Miller (Professor of Psychology and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry) |  | I am interested in understanding mechanisms relating cognitive, emotional, and physiological aspects of normal and abnormal human behavior, using the methods of clinical, cognitive, and affective psychophysiology / neuroscience. | | Office: Room 711 | (217) 333-4507 | gamiller@uiuc.edu |
Associated Faculty from Other Divisions| Aaron S. Benjamin (Associate Professor) |  | Human learning, memory, and decision-making | | Office: Room 827 | (217) 333-6822 | asbenjam [at] uiuc [dot] edu |
| Michael Coles (Professor Emeritus) |  | The utility of measures of brain activity, derived using non-invasive procedures, in understanding human cognitive function. | | Office: Room 509 | (217) 333-2122 | m-coles@uiuc.edu |
| Gary S. Dell (Professor) |  | Language production and comprehension; connectionist models of psycholinguistic phenomena. | | Office: Room 833 | (217) 244-1294 | gdell@cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu |
| Florin Dolcos (Assistant Professor - Fall 2010) | | Neural correlates of affective-cognitive interactions in healthy and clinical populations. We use functional neuroimaging methods (e.g., fMRI, ERP) in conjunction with electrophysiological (e.g., skin conductance) and behavioral (e.g., performance in cognitive tasks, personality questionnaires) measurements. | | Office: Room TBA | | fdolcos@cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu |
| Emanuel Donchin (Professor Emeritus) | | | Professor Donchin is currently Professor in the University of South Florida Department of Psychology. | | Office: Room PCD4116 | (813) 974-0466 | edonchin@uiuc.edu |
| Sarah Grison (Director of Introductory Psychology) |  | Investigating the cognitive and neural mechanisms of visual selective attention processes and their association with memory; Applying principles of cognitive psychology to the scholarship of instruction to inform best practice, improve learning, develop programs, and create pedagogically appropriate texts and supplements | | Office: Room 635 | (217) 333-1094 | sgrison@uiuc.edu |
| Wendy Heller (Professor) |  | My research investigates the role of the brain in emotion, personality, and psychopathology, particularly anxiety and depression. | | Office: Room MC 715 | (217) 244-8249 | w-heller@uiuc.edu |
| Arthur F. Kramer (Professor) |  | Cognitive neuroscience, cognition & aging, selective attention, skill acquisition and training, human factors. | | Office: Room 515 | (217) 333-9532 | akramer@cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu |
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