Affiliates

Influences of managerial and stakeholder cognition on corporate social performance, reputation, and financial performance

Ethics of leaders and leadership, business ethics, philosophy of work

The Institute for Ethical Leadership

Intersection of machine learning and human learning, using probabilistic models and tools from pure mathematics

Why deviance arises in business settings, how to evaluate it, how to deter destructive deviance while promoting constructive deviance

Trying to understand the cellular and synaptic substrates underlying innocuous touch perception by elucidating the functional organization of sensory neurons in mouse hairy skin and uncovering the neural codes of touch perception in the spinal cord dorsal horn

Molecular mechanisms underlying sensory and cognitive function in mouse models of human diseases; understanding how mutations in chromatin remodeling proteins results in hyperactivity and circling behavior in mutant mice with the goal of bridging the molecular changes in neurons to the abnormal behavior observed in these mouse models

Sensory processing, decision-making, and neural plasticity in mice; recording and manipulation of specific neurons and neural circuits as mice perform learned tactile behaviors to understand sensory-guided decision-making from the synaptic to the network levels; how brain injury and neurological disorders impact neuronal activity and behavior

Modeling of human neurodevelopmental disorders in mouse with a particular focus on Tourette Syndrome (TS); using CRISPR-based approaches to generate mouse models that harbor recently discovered human point mutations found in sporadic forms of TS; using these models to investigate how circuit development and function in the brain are perturbed by the human mutations using a combination of mouse genetics, circuit labeling techniques, optogenetics, electrophysiology, and mouse behavior

Investigations of the molecular mechanisms regulating dendritic spine morphogenesis and synaptic plasticity

Machine learning, robotics, planning and learning in partially observable domains, reinforcement learning

Agent-centric models for simulating crowd dynamics that challenge foundational assumptions in crowd modeling, while providing solutions that are validated using comparisons to real data, and virtual reality experiments; solutions can be used to optimize the behavioral dynamics of real crowds and model the relationships between crowd flow and environment features, with applications in predictive analytics and crowd management, and environment layout design

Image interpretation using planning and learning techniques; methods of theory formation for classification, configuration, planning and design problems with biomedical applications

American Sign Language and Gesture recognition from video, human identification and intent recognition from video, human computer interaction, shape and motion representation for recognition

Developing computational models to learn generalizable and human-readable representations from unlabeled data, with a focus on natural language processing; reliance on mathematical frameworks such as Information theory; interest in applications of learned representations to practical problems such as entity linking

Chief Science Officer, Co-Founder of The Network Contagion Research Institute, which innovates methods in social cyber sciences; focus on the rise of incitement and information disorder in online social platforms

Decision Theory, Game Theory, Neuroeconomics

Experimental Economics, Decision and Game Theory, Uncertainty and Information Economics

Critical AI; Interdisciplinary approaches to literature and culture, especially the long nineteenth century; advent of data-driven machine learning in the invention of Sherlock Holmes

Behavior neuroscience and genetics with a focus on the 'nature-nurture' theme of genetics and cognitive behavior; genetics of compulsive behaviors (such as alcoholism and drug addiction) and neuro-sensory disorders (such as diabetic neuropathy and neuropathic pain); techniques utilized include molecular genetics, animal behavior models, and machine learning algorithms with statistics/bioinformatics models for neuro-behavior pattern analysis

Philosophy and psychopathology (especially disorders of self); phenomenological philosophy; Wittgenstein; philosophical aspects of psychoanalysis

Psycholinguistics, concepts/categorization, reasoning, problem-solving, decision-making, and metacognition

Word sense disambiguation and lexical semantics; morphology; multiword expressions; applications of natural language processing to education and information retrieval

Theoretical and comparative syntax of natural languages focusing on models of parameterization for deriving grammars from universal principles

Thoughts and utterances that don’t fit standard propositional models; speech acts; figurative speech, including metaphors, slurs, and ‘loaded’ language; cognitive perspectives and emotions; non-sentential representational systems such as maps and diagrams

Intentionality in thought and language and how they’re related; philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology and rational decision theory

Philosophy of science, especially philosophy of psychology

Dept. of Neurology 

Neuropsychology with a focus on neurodegeneration and brain-behavior relationships in neurologic populations, such as older adults with cognitive impairment and persons with multiple sclerosis (MS); interest in utilizing digital and sensor technology in the assessment and treatment of cognitive dysfunction

Dept. of Psychiatry

Clinical translational neuroscience of addiction, brain imaging, decision neuroscience, computational psychiatry

 Dept. of Neuroscience and Cell Biology

Bridging the genetics and mechanisms of disease to identify genes that are essential for human cognition and to define the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders focusing on autism and neuromuscular disorders; combining human genetics with molecular, cellular, and behavioral approaches in murine and zebrafish models to link human genetics to neuronal cell biology, intracellular signaling, and behavior

Dept. of Pharmacology & Medicine

Investigations of how ion channels (proteins, found in cell membranes, which open and close to allow the movement of charged atoms (ions) into and out of cells) work, what happens when they break, and how can we fix them; this movement of ions underlies the electrical currents critical for a vast range of biological processes. 

Interrogation of neural circuits involved in psychiatric disorders with the goal of better understand the maladaptive processes that affect the brains of individuals afflicted with drug addiction and comorbid disorders such as anxiety disorders, depression, or chronic pain, with the hope of advancing more effective treatment strategies

Social cognitive and perceptual processes involved in successful goal pursuit; self-regulation and self-control

Psychosocial and emotional factors involved in the development and course of chronic physical diseases; the role of mental representations (beliefs) in accounting for patients’ failure to undertake health-promoting behaviors for managing chronic medical conditions such as coronary disease

Development of positive, constructive life paths for children and youth and the organization of opportunities to allow this to happen in equitable ways; social-emotional learning, social-emotional and character development, emotional intelligence, social competence promotion, character education, primary prevention, school-based, evidence-based intervention, and socialization of identity

Computer models of syntactic parsing and language comprehension

Cognitive development; autobiographic memory and development of planning skills

Social perception, stereotypes and prejudice, science reform, applied philosophy of science

Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience and Health Concentration; how central and peripheral immune events influence the cognitive and emotional state of animals, and through what mechanisms this might occur

Obesity as a complex state characterized by behaviors including enhanced food motivation leading to chronic weight gain, and associated with neuronal adaptations in brain circuits that mediate food-seeking behaviors

Application of natural language processing and facial recognition models to the study of social cognition (stereotypes, psychological intersectionality, first impressions); social biases in machine learning

Understanding how chronic stress exposure alters behavior in both sexes and whether neural circuits can be leveraged to reverse maladaptive effects of stress exposure

Investigation of the underlying processes that govern how we encode, store, and retrieve information from memory and how these processes change/differ as a function of development, culture, and expertise

The relationship between communication and design, especially the uses of technological and organizational design, to augment human interaction and reasoning for decision-making and conflict-management; used of methods from discourse analysis and computational social science to examine language, argumentation, and social interaction in professional practice, organizational processes, and information infrastructures

Human interaction with information, particularly in information retrieval

Human-Computer Interaction, interaction design, mobile and ubiquitous computing, healthcare, everyday wellbeing, environmental sustainability, behavior change

The intersection of Big Data Analytics, Computational Social Science, and Multimedia Information Systems; focus on using mobile phones, sensors, and social media for understanding and influencing human behavior; development of new algorithms and design interfaces that support understanding human behavior while actively responding to issues like algorithmic bias and privacy concerns

Psycholinguistics; linguistic and cognitive factors modulating morphosyntactic processing in adult learners using behavioral and electrophysiological (ERP) techniques

Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic, Philosophy of Physics