54 faculty and 14 courses in Cognitive Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- John D. E. Gabrieli, Grover M. Hermann Professor h-index 156
Notable: “Rethinking Feelings: An fMRI Study of the Cognitive Regulation of Emotion” (2002) · 2,533 citations
- Nancy Kanwisher, Walter A Rosenblith Professor h-index 116
Notable: “The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for Face Perception” (1997) · 7,950 citations
- Robert Desimone, Doris and Don Berkey Professor; Director McGovern Institute for Brain Research h-index 100
Notable: “Neural Mechanisms of Selective Visual Attention” (1995) · 8,336 citations
- Earl K Miller, Picower Professor of Neuroscience h-index 89
Notable: “An Integrative Theory of Prefrontal Cortex Function” (2001) · 12,805 citations
- Rebecca R Saxe, John W Jarve (1978) Professor in Brain & Cognitive Science; Associate Dean of Science h-index 83
Notable: “People thinking about thinking peopleThe role of the temporo-parietal junction in “theory of mind”” (2003) · 2,362 citations
- Mary C Potter, Professor Emerita h-index 48
Notable: “A two-stage model for multiple target detection in rapid serial visual presentation.” (1995) · 1,300 citations
- Laura E Schulz, John & Dorothy Wilson Professor h-index 45
Notable: “A Theory of Causal Learning in Children: Causal Maps and Bayes Nets.” (2004) · 1,236 citations
- Pawan Sinha, Professor h-index 42
Notable: “Face Recognition by Humans: Nineteen Results All Computer Vision Researchers Should Know About” (2006) · 672 citations
- Joshua B Tenenbaum, Whitehead Professor h-index 27
Notable: “Learning to share visual appearance for multiclass object detection” (2011) · 339 citations
- Alan Pradip Jasanoff, Eugene McDermott Professor in the Brain Sciences and Human Behavior
- Alan V Hein, Professor Emeritus
- Alexander Rakhlin, Richard Larson Professor
- Ann M. Graybiel, Institute Professor
- Brandon Weissbourd, Assistant Professor
- Drazen Prelec, Digital Equipment Corp LGO Professor of Management
- Edward A Gibson, Professor
- Edward H Adelson, John and Dorothy Wilson Professor
- Edward Stuart Boyden, Y. Eva Tan Professor of Neurotechnology
- Elly Nedivi, William R. (1964) and Linda R. Young Professor
- Emery N Brown, Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering
- Emilio Bizzi, Institute Professor Emeritus
- Evelina Fedorenko, Associate Professor
- Fan Wang, Professor
- Feng Zhang, James & Patricia Poitras Professor in Neuroscience
- Gloria Choi, Professor
- Guoping Feng, James W (1963) & Patricia T Poitras Professor
- Ila Fiete, Professor
- James DiCarlo, Peter de Florez Professor; Director MIT Siegel Family Quest for Intelligence
- Josh McDermott, Uncas (1923) and Helen Whitaker Professor
- Kenneth N Wexler, Professor Emeritus
- Kwanghun Chung, Eugene McDermott Professor in the Brain Sciences and Human Behavior
- Li-Huei Tsai, Picower Professor
- Linlin Fan, Assistant Professor
- Mark Bear, Picower Professor of Neuroscience
- Mark Thomas Harnett, Associate Professor
- Martha Constantine-Paton, Professor Emerita
- Matthew A Wilson, Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience
- Mehrdad Jazayeri, Professor
- Michale S Fee, Glen V. (1946) and Phyllis F. Dorflinger Professor and Department Head
- Morgan Hwa-Tze Sheng, Professor
- Mriganka Sur, Paul E. (1965) and Lilah Newton Professor; Director Simons Center for the Social Brain
- Myriam Heiman, John and Dorothy Wilson Professor; Director The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
- Nidhi Seethapathi, Assistant Professor
- Polina Anikeeva, Matoula S. Salapatas Professor
- Robert Mark Richardson, Visiting Professor
- Roger Levy, Professor
- Sara Prescott, Assistant Professor
- Steven Flavell, Associate Professor
- Susan Hockfield, Whitehead Professor of Neuroscience; President Emerita
- Susumu Tonegawa, Picower Professor
- Sven Dorkenwald, Silverman (1968) Family Career Development Assistant Professor
- Tomaso A Poggio, Eugene McDermott Professor in the Brain Sciences
- Troy Littleton, Menicon Professor of Neuroscience
- William Quinn, Professor, Brain & Cognitive Science/Biology
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.