Faculty

Cognitive Psychology Faculty


Geoffrey Bingham

Geoffrey Bingham

Professor Emeritus, Psychological and Brain Sciences

  • gbingham@iu.edu

Research Interests
perception/action; visual event perception; optic flow; space perception; motor coordination and control; sfm and shape perception; visually guided reach-to-grasp

Joshua W. Brown

Joshua W. Brown

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
develop computational models of brain circuitry involved in cognitive control; test computational model predictions with fMRI; investigate the neural bases of cognitive impairment in psychopathology, especially substance abuse and schizophrenia, using fMRI and computational modeling, apply temporal interference electrical neurostimulation to test causal hypotheses and develop clinical treatments.

Jerome Busemeyer

Jerome Busemeyer

Distinguished Professor and Provost Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Research Interests
quantum cognition; dynamic, emotional, and cognitive models of judgment and decision making; neural network models of function learning, interpolation, extrapolation; methodology for comparing and testing complex models of behavior; measurement theory with error contaminated data

Thomas Busey

Thomas Busey

Professor, Psychological Brain Sciences

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
human expertise; forensics; decision making; visual perception; electrophysiology; mathematical modeling

Natasha Chaku

Natasha Chaku

Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
adolescence; cognition; puberty; positive development; quantitative methods

Jonathon Crystal

Jonathon Crystal

Provost Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Associate Department Chair

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
comparative cognition; episodic memory; metacognition; time perception; circadian rhythms; learning and memory; disorders of memory; Alzheimer's

Emily Fyfe

Emily Fyfe

Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Director of Pedagogy

**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
cognitive development; math cognition; learning and transfer; problem solving; experimental educational research methods

Jason Gold

Jason Gold

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Director of Undergraduate Studies

**Not accepting graduate students**

Research Interests
sensation and perception; psychophysics

Robert Goldstone

Robert Goldstone

Distinguished Professor and Chancellor’s Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
conceptual and perceptual learning; computational models of thought; visual cognition and pattern recognition; analogical reasoning, judgment, and decision making

Karin H. James

Karin H. James

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Director of Graduate Studies

**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
action and perception interactions during learning; development of object recognition; effects of handwriting on cognitive development, perceptual expertise, gesture processing and active learning in adults

Tom James

Tom James

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
visual and haptic perception; object recognition; cross-sensory integration; priming and adaptation; functional neuroimaging

Mike Jones

Mike Jones

W.K. Estes Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Department Chair

**Not accepting graduate students**

Research Interests
computational models of memory and language; dynamics of knowledge and language acquisition; categorization and concept learning; attention in reading and visual navigation; artificial intelligence; specifically swarm intelligence

Daniel P. Kennedy

Daniel P. Kennedy

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Director, Imaging Research Facility

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
social neuroscience; autism spectrum disorders; social perception; eye tracking; brain connectivity; functional MRI

Ben Motz

Ben Motz

Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Associate Director, eLearning Research and Practice Lab, Pervasive Technology Institute

**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
concept learning; learning strategies; behavioral science; experimental research methods in education

Robert Nosofsky

Robert Nosofsky

Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
Cognitive Science, Categorization, Recognition Memory, Similarity Scaling, Computational Modeling

N. Bonnie Nozari

N. Bonnie Nozari

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
cognitive and neural basis of language production in spoken and typed production; monitoring; error detection; computational models of language production; interface of language production and decision making; language production and cognitive control

David B. Pisoni

David B. Pisoni

Distinguished Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Chancellor’s Professor, Cognitive Science

Adjunct Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences; Linguistics; Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine

**Not accepting graduate students**

Research Interests
psycholinguistics; speech perception; production and synthesis; perceptual development; spoken language comprehension; voice I/O technology; human factors; hearing impairment; cochlear implants; individual differences; multi-modal perception of speech

Tim Pleskac

Tim Pleskac

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2025**

Richard Shiffrin

Richard Shiffrin

Distinguished and Luther Dana Waterman Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Member, National Academy of Sciences

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

**Not accepting graduate students**

Research Interests
Short- and long-term memory; forgetting; attention; perception; decision making; visual search; mathematical and computer simulation modeling; the practice of science

Peter Todd

Peter Todd

Provost Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2025**

Jennifer Trueblood

Jennifer Trueblood

Ruth N. Halls Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Director, Cognitive Science Program

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2025**

  • jstruebl@iu.edu
  • Psychology Building 363