32 faculty and 40 courses in Cognitive Science at University of California, San Diego.
- Bradley Voytek, Professor and Chair h-index 45
Selected Publications Research Interests Bradley Voytek is a Professor and Department Chair of Cognitive Science, and Professor in the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute and the Neurosciences Graduate Program at UC San Diego.
- Ayse P. Saygin, Associate Professor h-index 37
Selected Publications Research Interests Cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychology, neuroimaging, visual perception, attention, multisensory integration, biological motion, social neuroscience, language comprehension, human-machine interactio
Notable: “Voxel-based lesion–symptom mapping” (2003) · 1,482 citations
- Lera Boroditsky, Professor h-index 36
Research Interests Relationships between mind, world and language. How we create meaning, imagine, and use knowledge. How the languages we speak shape the ways we think. Faculty Steven Barrera Anne Beatty-Martínez Benjamin Bergen Lera Borod
Notable: “Metaphoric structuring: understanding time through spatial metaphors” (2000) · 1,831 citations
- David Kirsh, Professor h-index 34
- Andrea Chiba, Professor h-index 31
Selected Publications Research Interests Spatial attention, associative learning, acetylcholine, amygdala. Selected Publications Quinn LK, Nitz DA, Chiba AA (2010) Learning-dependent dynamics of beta-frequency oscillations in the basal fore
- Gedeon Deák, Professor h-index 28
Selected Publications Research Interests Cognitive development in children, embodied learning, infant-parent interaction, cognitive flexibility. Selected Publications Liao, Y., Akalin Acar, Z., Makeig, S., & Deák, G. O. (2015). EEG
Notable: “The Development of Cognitive Flexibility and Language Abilities” (2004) · 283 citations
- Sarah Creel, Professor h-index 22
Selected Publications Research Interests Language development, word recognition, eye tracking, cognitive control, music perception. Selected Publications Creel, S. C., & Bregman, M. R. (2011). How Talker Identity Relates to Language Pro
Notable: “Distant Melodies: Statistical Learning of Nonadjacent Dependencies in Tone Sequences.” (2004) · 304 citations
- Anastasia Kiyonaga, Assistant Professor h-index 17
Research Interests How the brain generates and maintains transient mental representations to guide behavior. How the active content of thought intersects with perception, attention, and action. Faculty Steven Barrera Anne Beatty
Notable: “Examining the protective effects of mindfulness training on working memory capacity and affective experience.” (2010) · 903 citations
- Martin Zettersten, Assistant Professor h-index 14
Featured Publications Research Interests Language and cognitive development, active information-seeking and curiosity, statistical learning, word learning, big data in developmental research, infant looking time and eye-tracking methods. La
Notable: “Building a collaborative psychological science: Lessons learned from ManyBabies 1.” (2020) · 92 citations
- Anne Beatty-Martínez, Assistant Professor h-index 11
Research Interests How does cognition support language use? How does language use impact cognition? My research agenda capitalizes on the diversity and variability in language experience to better understand adaptive change in cognitio
Notable: “Interactional context mediates the consequences of bilingualism for language and cognition.” (2019) · 226 citations
- Drew E. Walker, Associate Teaching Professor h-index 6
Research Interests Social cognition; teaching and learning. Faculty Steven Barrera Anne Beatty-Martínez Benjamin Bergen Lera Boroditsky Andrea Chiba Seana Coulson Sarah Creel Virginia de Sa Gedeon Deák Steven Dow Shannon Ellis Jason Fleisch
Notable: “Hierarchical Encoding Makes Individuals in a Group Seem More Attractive” (2013) · 122 citations
- Amy Rae Fox, Assistant Teaching Professor
Research Interests Explore how humans create and appropriate tools for thinking. These cognitive technologies range from stunning interactive visualizations of data, simple charts and graphs, diagrams, systems of notation, to even the text
- Benjamin Bergen, Professor
Selected Publications Research Interests Language comprehension and production, including grammar, word meaning, metaphor, profanity, and talking while driving. Selected Publications Books: Bergen, Benjamin. (2016). What the F: What swearin
- Deanna Greene, Associate Professor
Research Interests Developmental cognitive neuroscience, brain network development, cortico-subcortical systems, neurodevelopmental disorders (primarily Tourette syndrome and its comorbid conditions, including ADHD and OCD), neuroimaging. F
- Douglas A. Nitz, Professor
Selected Publications Research Interests Neural basis of spatial cognition and episodic memory, hippocampus, parietal cortex, premotor cortex. Selected Publications Quinn LK, Nitz DA, Chiba AA (2010) Learning-dependent dynamics of beta-freq
- Eran Mukamel, Professor
Selected Publications Research Interests Computational analysis of large-scale neural data, electrophysiology of sleep and general anesthesia, computational epigenomics in brain cells. Selected Publications Environmental enrichment increase
- Federico Rossano, Associate Professor
Selected Publications Research Interests The development of social cognition in ontogeny and phylogeny; multimodal communication and its cross-cultural variability; cognitive development; comparative psychology; language evolution; social i
- Haijun Xia, Assistant Professor
- Jason Fleischer, Assistant Teaching Professor
Research Interests Using machine learning to extract knowledge from complex biological datasets. Gene expression changes with aging. Circadian metabolism and human health. Computational neuroscience models of episodic and working memory. Fa
- Jim Hollan, Distinguished Professor
Selected Publications Research Interests Cognitive ethnography, distributed and embodied cognition, human-computer interaction, multimodal interaction. Selected Publications Becvar Weddle, A. and Hollan, J. D. (2010) Scaffolding Embodied Pr
- Lara Rangel, Associate Professor
Featured Publications Research Interests Rhythmic coordination of brain activity, information processing in neural networks, dynamic interactions between neurons, learning, memory, neuromodulation. Featured Publications Rangel L.M., Alexand
- Lucy Lai, Assistant Teaching Professor
Research Interests Explore open questions in decision making, belief change, intellectual humility, and human-AI collaboration to address real-world challenges. Faculty Steven Barrera Anne Beatty-Martínez Benjamin Bergen Lera Boroditsky And
- Meenakshi Khosla, Assistant Professor
Research Interests Our work lies at the crossroads of neuroscience, artificial intelligence and large-scale data analyses, primarily in the development of large-scale data driven approaches to accelerate neuroscientific discovery. We build
- Philip Guo, Professor
- Scott Klemmer, Professor
- Seana Coulson, Professor
Selected Publications Research Interests Cognitive electrophysiology, cognitive semantics, experimental pragmatics, gesture comprehension, synesthesia. Selected Publications Davenport, T., & Coulson, S. (2011) Predictability and novelty
- Shannon Ellis, Associate Teaching Professor
Research Interests Data science educator and researcher, focused on teaching and learning. S tudying and addressing issues related to the barriers individuals face when it comes to accessing technical education. Faculty Steven Barrera
- Steven Barrera, Assistant Teaching Professor
Research Interests Using cognitive neuroscience and psychophysics to explore issues including multisensory integration, embodied cognition, distributed cognition, moral cognition, metacognitive awareness, and self-regulated learning. Facult
- Steven Dow, Professor
- Terry L. Jernigan, Distinguished Professor
Research Interests Terry Jernigan’s central research interest is the developing human mind and brain, focusing on the dynamic neurodevelopmental processes that give rise to human individuality – and on how these processes are im
- Virginia de Sa, Professor
- Zhuowen Tu, Professor
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.