Academic Faculty
Subrata Dasgupta
ICS Director
Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Computer Science and Professor of History
Cognitive aspects of creativity in science, art, and technology,
cognitive history of the creative tradition, historical foundation of cognitive science.
subrata@louisiana.edu
Istvan S. N. Berkeley
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Neural network analysis, foundations of cognitive science.
istvan@louisiana.edu
Claude G. Čech
Professor of Psychology
Memory and cognition, discourse processes, mental comparisons.
cech@louisiana.edu
Michele I. Feist
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science
Lexical semantics, spatial language.
feist@louisiana.edu
Matthew Isaak
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Visual perception and cognition, visual attention, perception of motion.
miisaak@louisiana.edu
Mike Kalish
Associate Professor of Cognitive Science
Category learning, Connectionist modeling.
kalish@louisiana.edu
Cheryl S. Lynch
Associate Professor of Psychology
Psychoneuroendocrinology, cognition.
csm5689@louisiana.edu
Anthony S. Maida
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Neurocomputation and computational neuroscience.
maida@cacs.louisiana.edu
Affiliate Faculty
Shalini Arehole
Associate Professor and Hawthorne BORSF Distinguished Professor of Communicative Disorders
Central auditory processing, evoked potentials.
sxa3201@louisiana.edu
Robert Bothwell
Associate Professor of Psychology
Social cognition, social perception, attribution in legal contexts.
rkb8517@louisiana.edu
Jack Damico
Doris Hawthorne Eminent Scholar of Communicative Disorders
Qualitative research, aphasia and discourse, clinical linguistics, neuro-pathologies, language disorders.
jsd6498@louisiana.edu
William R. Edwards
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Information, computation theory and cognition, software.
wre@cacs.louisiana.edu
M. Babette Fontenot
Head of Behavioral Sciences Division, New Iberia Research Center
Physiological and cognitive ethology, endocrinology, behavioral pathophysiology.
mbb4143@louisiana.edu
David Greenway
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Stimulus equivalence, basic verbal processes.
deg8396@louisiana.edu
Rasiah Loganantharaj
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Knowledge representation and reasoning.
logan@cacs.louisiana.edu
Valanne MacGyvers
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Developmental social cognition, achievement motivation, ADHD, theory of mind.
vxm2873@louisiana.edu
Robert McFatter
Professor of Psychology
Quantitative psychology, individual differences in emotion and cognition.
mcfatter@louisiana.edu
John Oller
Professor of Communicative Disorders
Semiotic theory, language proficiency measurement, language acquisition.
joller@louisiana.edu
Daniel Povinelli
Professor, Cognitive Evolution Group and Director, Center for Child Studies
Evolution and development of cognition.
ceg@louisiana.edu
Claiborne Rice
Assistant Professor of English
Cognitive poetics, cognitive linguistics, English linguistics.
crice@louisiana.edu
Glenn Watson
Associate Professor of Biology
Sensory processing in primitive animals, comparative sensory physiology,
molecular mechanisms of repair for hair bundle mechanoreceptors.
gmw5722@louisiana.edu
Graduate Students
Charles Barousse
Music cognition, perception, and cognitive neuroscience in music.
charles@louisiana.edu
Roxanne Benoit
Conversation, sleep research, neural correlates to consciousness.
roxi@aol.com
Brooke Breaux
Language, psycholinguistics, language acquisition
bfo1493@louisiana.edu
Sally Donlon
Evolution of language, Knowledge aquisition, pragmatics.
sod@louisiana.edu
Margery Doyle
Multi-agent systems (SWARMS), human-computer interaction, augmented cognition,
function concept learning, artificial eural networks.
mjd1330@louisiana.edu
Sarah DuBose
Comparative cognition of human and nonhuman primates, learning and memory of nonhuman primates.
sed9352@louisiana.edu
Jody Epstein
Animal learning, information seeking strategies in capuchin monkeys.
jae2924@louisiana.edu
Steven Feist
Learning, cognitively motivated educational software design.
sfeist@louisiana.edu
David Giles
Learning, memory.
draconova@aol.com
Derek James
Artificial neural networks, evolution of cognition.
derekjames@louisiana.edu
Daniel Lewis
AI, cognitive modeling.
daniel.h.lewis@gmail.com
Christopher Pope
Emotion, embodied cognition, computer neural modeling, somatic markers.
cdp9060@louisiana.edu
Laurie Robinette
Human memory, language, acquistion learning.
laureliz2310@yahoo.com
Jerikaye Stout
Creativity, intelligence, linguistics, symbolic logic, learning development.
justanotherjunglist@hotmail.com
B. Meghna Uthaiya
Emotion and perception.
meghna129@yahoo.com
Naresh Vempala
Computational neuroscience, neural correlates of music, music cognition.
nxv5312@louisiana.edu
Amber Wright
Evolution of behavior in humans and non-human primates.
aew3482@louisiana.edu
