People / Faculty
| Edward Adelson, Ph.D. | John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Vision Science psychophysics; computer vision; visual perception |
| Mark Bear, Ph.D. | Picower Professor of Neuroscience synaptic plasticity; visual cortex; developmental brain disorders |
| Robert Berwick, Ph.D | Professor of Computational Linguistics grammar theory; computational linguistics |
| Emilio Bizzi, M.D., Ph.D. | Institute Professor neural control of movements |
| Edward Boyden, PhD | Benesse Career Development Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering neuroengineering; psychiatry; neural circuits |
| Emery Brown, M.D., Ph.D. | Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Health Sciences & Technology neural signal processesing; point processes; general anesthesia |
| Stephan Chorover, Ph.D | Professor of Psychology |
| Martha Constantine-Paton, Ph.D. | Professor of Biology synaptogenesis; development; disease |
| Suzanne Corkin, Ph.D. | Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience memory systems; neurodegeneration; neuroimaging |
| Robert Desimone, Ph.D. | Doris and Don Berkey Professor of Neuroscience attention; vision; synchrony |
| James DiCarlo, MD, PhD | Associate Professor of Neuroscience object recognition; neuronal computation; visual perception |
| Michale Fee, Ph.D. | Professor of Neuroscience songbirds; neural sequences |
| John Gabrieli, Ph.D. | Grover Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology and Cognitive Neuroscience memory; brain imaging; cognition |
| Edward Gibson, Ph.D. | Professor of Cognitive Sciences language processing; quantitative linguistics; culture and cognition (piraha) |
| Ki Goosens, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Neuroscience fear and stress; viral-mediated gene transfer; tetrode recording |
| Ann Graybiel, Ph.D. | Institute Professor basal ganglia; habit learning; multielectrode recording |
| Alan Hein, Ph.D. | Professor of Experimental Psychology |
| Richard Held, Ph.D. | Emeritus |
| Susan Hockfield, Ph.D. | Professor of Neuroscience and President, MIT |
| Neville Hogan, Ph.D. | Professor of Mechanical Engineering motor control; robotics |
| Alan Jasanoff, Ph.D. | Norman C. Rasmussen Career Development Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Biomedical Engineering functional MRI; neural systems; reward learning |
| Nancy Kanwisher, Ph.D. | Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience human cognitive neuroscience; fMRI; vision and perception |
| Yingxi Lin, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Neuroscience GABAergic synapses; neuronal activity; circuit homeostasis |
| Troy Littleton, M.D., Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Biology molecular neuroscience; neurotransmitter release; synaptic plasticity |
| Carlos Lois, M.D., Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Neuroscience neurogenesis; genetics; development |
| Earl Miller, Ph.D. | Picower Professor of Neuroscience, Associate Director, Picower Institute executive; neurophysiology; cognition |
| Christopher Moore, Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Neuroscience cortex; dynamics; blood |
| Elly Nedivi, Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Neurobiology synaptic plasticity; activity-dependent genes |
| Aude Oliva, Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience computational visual cognition; scene understanding; visual memory |
| Tomaso Poggio, Ph.D. | Eugene McDermott Professor in the Brain Sciences and Human Behavior computational neuroscience; vision; learning theory |
| Mary Potter, Ph.D. | Professor of Psychology picture perception and memory; attention; visual perception |
| Drazen Prelec, Ph.D. | Digital Equipment Corporation LFM Professor of Management in the Sloan School neuroeconomics; judgment and decision making; bayesian models |
| William Quinn, Ph.D. | Professor of Neurobiology drosophila; memory |
| Whitman Richards, Ph.D. | Professor of Cognitive Sciences cognition and perception; computation |
| Ruth Rosenholtz, Ph.D. | Principle Research Scientist of Visual Cognition vision; computational modeling; behavioral experiments |
| Rebecca Saxe, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience Fred and Carole Middleton Career Development Professorship development; social cognition; neuroimaging |
| Peter Schiller, Ph.D. | Dorothy W. Poitras Professor in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics visual systems; oculomotor systems |
| Gerald Schneider, Ph.D. | Professor of Neuroscience axon development; regeneration |
| Laura Schulz, Ph.D. | Class of 1943 Career Development Assistant Professor of Cognitive Sciences cognitive development; causal learning; exploratory play |
| Sebastian Seung, Ph.D. | Professor of Computational Neuroscience connectomics; structure and function of neural networks |
| Morgan Sheng, M.B.B.S., Ph.D. | Menicon Professor of Neurobiology molecular cellular neuroscience; synaptic plasticity; diseases of synapses |
| Pawan Sinha, Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Computational Neuroscience computational vision; object recognition |
| Jean-Jacques Slotine, Ph.D. | Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Information Sciences, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Director of the Nonlinear Systems Laboratory dynamics, robotics |
| Mriganka Sur, Ph.D., FRS | Department Head and Newton Professor in Neuroscience cerebral cortex; development, plasticity and dynamics; brain disorders |
| Joshua Tenenbaum, Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Computational Cognitive Science bayesian models of cognition; learning and inference; computational cognitive science |
| Susumu Tonegawa, Ph.D. | Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience learning and memory; mental retardation and psychiatric diseases; genetic engineering |
| Li-Huei Tsai, Ph.D. | Picower Professor of Neuroscience, Director, Picower Institute epigenetic regulation of learning and memory; alzheimer's disease; neurogenesis |
| Kenneth Wexler, Ph.D. | Professor of Psychology and Linguistics language acquisition; psycholinguistics; genetics of language |
| Matthew Wilson, Ph.D. | Associate Department Head, Sherman Fairchild Professorship in Neurobiology and Picower Scholar hippocampal learning and memory; sleep |
| Richard Wurtman, Ph.D. | Cecil H. Green Distinguished Professor of Neuropharmacology synapses; brain membrane synthesis; neurotransmitters |
| Weifeng Xu, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Neuroscience synaptic plasticity; excitability; electrophysiology |
