People / Faculty
| Edward H. Adelson, Ph.D. | John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Vision Science psychophysics; computer vision; visual perception |
| Mark Bear, Ph.D. | Picower Professor of Neuroscience Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator synaptic plasticity; visual cortex; devopmental brain disorders |
| Robert C. Berwick, Ph.D | Professor of Computational Linguistics grammar theory; computational linguistics |
| Emilio Bizzi, M.D., Ph.D. | Institute Professor neural control of movements |
| Edward S. Boyden, PhD | Benesse Career Development Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering neuroengineering; psychiatry; neural circuits |
| Emery N. 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 Neuroscience, Emerita memory systems; neurodegeneration; neuroimaging |
| Robert Desimone, Ph.D. | Doris and Don Berkey Professor of Neuroscience. Director, McGovern Institute for Brain Research attention; vision; synchrony |
| James DiCarlo, MD, PhD | Professor of Neuroscience. Department Head. object recognition; neuronal computation; visual perception |
| Michale Fee, Ph.D. | Professor of Neuroscience. Associate Department Head. songbirds; neural sequences |
| Guoping Feng, Ph.D. | Poitras Professor of Neuroscience synapse; circuit; optogenetics; OCD; autism; bipolar disorder |
| John D. E. Gabrieli, Ph.D. | Grover Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology and Cognitive Neuroscience. Director, Martinos Imaging Center at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Director, MIT Clinical Research Center. memory; brain imaging; cognition |
| Edward A. F. Gibson, Ph.D. | Professor of Cognitive Sciences language processing; quantitative linguistics; culture and cognition (piraha) |
| Ki Ann Goosens, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Neuroscience fear and stress; viral-mediated gene transfer; tetrode recording |
| Ann M. Graybiel, Ph.D. | Institute Professor basal ganglia; habit learning; multielectrode recording |
| Myriam Heiman, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Neuroscience striatum, neurodegeneration, neuronal profiling |
| Alan Hein, Ph.D. | Professor of Experimental Psychology |
| Richard Held, Ph.D. | Professor of Experimental Psychology, Emeritus |
| Susan Hockfield, Ph.D. | Professor of Neuroscience |
| Neville Hogan, Ph.D. | Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering motor control; robotics |
| Alan Jasanoff, Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Biological Engineering functional MRI; neural systems; reward learning |
| Mehrdad Jazayeri, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Neuroscience neural circuits, sensorimotor function, time perception |
| Nancy Kanwisher, Ph.D. | Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience human cognitive neuroscience; fMRI; vision and perception |
| Nelson Yuan-Sheng Kiang | Eaton-Peabody Professor, Emeritus |
| Frank Keller, Ph.D. | Visitng Associate Professor |
| Yingxi Lin, Ph.D. | Fred & Carole Middleton Career Development Assistant Professor of Neuroscience GABAergic synapses; neuronal activity; circuit homeostasis |
| J. Troy Littleton, M.D., Ph.D. | Professor of Biology molecular neuroscience; neurotransmitter release; synaptic plasticity |
| Josh McDermott, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor computational audition; auditory perception and cognition; music perception |
| Earl K. Miller, Ph.D. | Picower Professor of Neuroscience executive; neurophysiology; cognition |
| Elly Nedivi, Ph.D. | Professor of Neurobiology synaptic plasticity; activity-dependent genes |
| Aude Oliva, Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Cognitive Science computational visual cognition; scene understanding; visual memory |
| Tomaso A.Poggio, Ph.D. | Eugene McDermott Professor in the Brain Sciences and Human Behavior computational neuroscience; vision; learning theory |
| Mary C.Potter, Ph.D. | Professor of Psychology picture perception and memory; attention; visual perception |
| Drazen Prelec, Ph.D. | Digital Equipment Corporation Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management, Management Science & Economics neuroeconomics; judgment and decision making; bayesian models |
| William G. Quinn, Ph.D. | Professor of Neurobiology drosophila; memory |
| Whitman A. Richards, Ph.D. | Professor of Cognitive Sciences cognition and perception; computation |
| Rebecca R. Saxe, Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Cognitive Science development; social cognition; neuroimaging |
| Peter H. Schiller, Ph.D. | Dorothy W. Poitras Professor of Medical Physiology visual systems; oculomotor systems |
| Gerald E. Schneider, Ph.D. | Professor of Neuroscience axon development; regeneration |
| Laura Schulz, Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Cognitive Science cognitive development; causal learning; exploratory play |
| H. Sebastian Seung, Ph.D. | Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Physics Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator connectomics; structure and function of neural networks |
| Pawan Sinha, Ph.D. | Professor of Vision and Computational Neuroscience computational vision; object recognition |
| Jean-Jacques Slotine, Ph.D. | Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Information Sciences dynamics, robotics |
| Mriganka Sur, Ph.D., FRS | Paul E. Newton Professor of Neuroscience. cerebral cortex; development, plasticity and dynamics; brain disorders |
| Joshua Tenenbaum, Ph.D. | Professor of Cognitive Science and Computation bayesian models of cognition; learning and inference; computational cognitive science |
| Susumu Tonegawa, Ph.D. | Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience. Director, Riken-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics learning and memory; mental retardation and psychiatric diseases; genetic engineering |
| Li-Huei Tsai, Ph.D. | Picower Professor of Neuroscience. Director, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. epigenetic regulation of learning and memory; alzheimer's disease; neurogenesis |
| Kay Tye, PhD | Assistant Professor of Neuroscience neural circuits |
| Shimon Ullman, PhD. | Adjunct Professor |
| Kenneth N. Wexler, Ph.D. | Professor of Psychology and Linguistics language acquisition; psycholinguistics; genetics of language |
| Matthew Wilson, Ph.D. | Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience. Associate Director, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. hippocampal learning and memory; sleep |
| Richard Wurtman, M.D. | Cecil H. Green Distinguished Professor of Neuropharmacology, Emeritus synapses; brain membrane synthesis; neurotransmitters |
| Weifeng Xu, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Neuroscience synaptic plasticity; excitability; electrophysiology |
| Feng Zhang, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Neuroscience neuropsychiatric diseases;synthetic biology; neuroengineering |
| current as of 7/11/12 |
