Cognitive Science at Yale University

51 faculty and 0 courses in Cognitive Science at Yale University.

Faculty

• John Bargh, James Rowland Angell Professor Psychology and Cognitive Science and of Management h-index 102
  Notable: “The unbearable automaticity of being.” (1999) · 3,616 citations
• Marcia Johnson, Sterling Professor of Psychology Emeritus h-index 95
  Notable: “Contextual prerequisites for understanding: Some investigations of comprehension and recall” (1972) · 2,155 citations
• Richard Aslin, Senior Scientist, Haskins Laboratories h-index 84
  Notable: “Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants” (1996) · 5,689 citations
• Joshua Knobe, Professor of Philosophy, of Linguistics and of Psychology h-index 62
  Notable: “The Folk Concept of Intentionality” (1997) · 746 citations
• Brian Scholl, Professor Psychology; Chair of Cognitive Science Program h-index 60
  Notable: “Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for “top-down” effects” (2015) · 1,204 citations
• Frank Keil, Charles C & Dorathea S Dilley Professor of Psychology and Linguistics h-index 59
  Notable: “Explanation and Understanding” (2005) · 1,348 citations
• Melissa Ferguson, Professor of Psychology h-index 36
  Es on the implicit cognitive processes that enable evaluation, goal-pursuit, self-control, and social behavior. Three recent topics of research in the lab are how we can update our impressions of others, how we control our behavior, and how
  Notable: “Everyday Sexism: Evidence for Its Incidence, Nature, and Psychological Impact From Three Daily Diary Studies” (2001) · 789 citations
• Gal Zauberman, Joseph F. Cullman, 3rd Professor of Marketing h-index 33
  Notable: “Discounting Time and Time Discounting: Subjective Time Perception and Intertemporal Preferences” (2009) · 634 citations
• Woo-kyoung Ahn, Professor of Psychology h-index 31
  Higher-level reasoning processes. In particular, I study how people learn and represent concepts and causal relations, and how causal explanations shape our thinking processes. I study basic cognitive processes underlying concept and cau
  Notable: “Feature Centrality and Conceptual Coherence” (1998) · 317 citations
• Julie Van Dyke, Agency Acct Assoc Haskins Laboratories h-index 28
  Notable: “Computational principles of working memory in sentence comprehension” (2006) · 869 citations
• Al Powers, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry h-index 27
  Notable: “Pavlovian conditioning–induced hallucinations result from overweighting of perceptual priors” (2017) · 743 citations
• Julia Leonard, Assistant Professor of Psychology h-index 22
  Notable: “Beyond the 30-Million-Word Gap: Children’s Conversational Exposure Is Associated With Language-Related Brain Function” (2018) · 795 citations
• Nathan Novemsky, Professor Marketing and Professor Psychology h-index 16
  Notable: “The Boundaries of Loss Aversion” (2005) · 716 citations
• Kenneth Pugh, Associate Professor Linguistics, Haskins Laboratories h-index 6
  Notable: “An open resource for transdiagnostic research in pediatric mental health and learning disorders” (2017) · 723 citations
• Nicolò Cesana-Arlotti, Assistant Professor of Psychology h-index 5
  Notable: “Precursors of logical reasoning in preverbal human infants” (2018) · 287 citations
• Isaac Davis, Lecturer, Cognitive Science Program h-index 4
  Notable: “A multidimensional approach to individual differences in empathy” (1980) · 4,781 citations
• Tyler Brooke-Wilson, Assistant Professor of Philosophy h-index 1
  Notable: “Language-Informed Synthesis of Rational Agent Models for Grounded Theory-of-Mind Reasoning On-the-fly” (2025) · 1 citations
• Athulya Aravind, Associate Professor of Linguistics
  Es on how people acquire their native language. I’m particularly interested in how a child first breaks into language, when some piece of their linguistic knowledge begins to adult-like, and what developmental steps occur along the way. Cur
• Brian Scassellati, Professor of Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
• Claire Bowern, Professor of Linguistics
• Dan Kahan, Elizabeth K Dollard Professor of Law and Professor Psychology
• David Gelernter, Professor of Computer Science
• David Watts, Alison Richard Professor of Anthropology
• Daylian Cain, Senior Lecturer
  Es on "judgment and decision-making" and "behavioral business ethics." In other words, he studies the reasons why smart people do dumb things. Cain is a leading expert on conflicts of interest, especially the "perverse effects of disclosing
• Fred Volkmar, Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry
• Gabor Brody, Lecturer, Research Scientist
• Gideon Yaffe, Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence
• Hal Blumenfeld, Mark Loughridge and Michele Williams Professor of Neurology
• Holly Rushmeier, Professor of Computer Science
• Ian Quinn, Professor of Music
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• Jason Dana, Associate Professor of Management and Marketing
• Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Linguistics
• Jennifer Richeson, Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology
• Julian Jara-Ettinger, Assistant Professor of Psychology
• Julie Dorsey, Professor of Computer Science
  Photorealistic image synthesis, material and texture models, illustration techniques, and interactive visualization of complex scenes, with an application to urban environments. In addition to serving on numerous conference program
• L.A. Paul, Millstone Family Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Cognitive Science
• Maria Pinango, Associate Professor of Linguistics
• Marynel Vázquez, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
• Michael Della Rocca, Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy
• Raffaella Zanuttini, Professor of Linguistics
• Ravi Dhar, George Rogers Clark Professor Management and Professor Psychology
  Es on using psychological principles, such as limited self-control and ability to process information, to investigate fundamental aspects about the formation of consumer preferences in order to understand consumer behavior in the marketplac
• Robert Frank, Professor of Linguistics
  Notable: “Causal Interventions on Continuous Variables: A Case Study on Verb Bias in Steering Vectors for In-Context Learning” (2026)
• Shane Frederick, Richard Ely Professor of Marketing
• Steven Zucker, Professor of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering
• Sun-Joo Shin, Professor of Philosophy
• Tamar Gendler, Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy, Professor Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
• Tom McCoy, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
• Tom Tyler, Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies
• Veneeta Dayal, Dorothy R. Diebold Professor of Linguistics
• Yarrow Dunham, Assistant Professor of Psychology
• Zoltan Szabo, John S. Saden Professor Philosophy and Linguistics

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.