Brennan, Susan. Ph.D. Stanford University, 1990. Professor, Cognitive Science
Language use and processing in communicative contexts; psycholinguistics; coordination in dialogue; collaborative cognition; human-computer interaction.

Franklin, Nancy. Ph.D. Stanford, 1989. Associate Professor, Cognitive Science
False memory, metacognitive assessments of one's own memory, situation models.

Gerrig, Richard. Ph.D. Stanford, 1984. Professor, Cognitive Science
Psycholinguistics, especially the implications of non-conventional language for theories of language processing and processes that give rise to and that follow from readers' experiences of being transported by narratives.

Luhmann, Christian Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, 2006. Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science
High-level cognition; causal and associative learning, probabilistic reasoning, economic and perceptual decision making, neuroimaging and computational modeling.

Rajaram, Suparna. Ph.D. Rice, 1991. Professor, Cognitive Science
Cognitive processes and neural structures that govern human memory and amnesia; explicit and implicit memory.

Samuel, Arthur. Ph.D. UCSD, 1979. Professor, On leave for the 2011-2012 academic year, Cognitive Science
Perception, language, attention, and memory. The majority of his research in the last two decades has investigated both bottom-up and top-down processes in speech recognition.

Zelinsky, Gregory. Ph.D., Brown, 1994. Associate Professor and Area Head, Cognitive Science
Visual cognition (attention, search, scene perception, and visual working memory), with emphasis on the behavioral and computational study of eye movements in visual search.