Cognitive Faculty

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Mark Beeman

Professor

Program Area(s):  Cognitive; Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Interest(s): Brain bases of language; creative thinking
Phone: 847-491-4617
Office Location: Cresap 104
mbeeman@northwestern.edu

Steven Franconeri

Professor

Program Area(s):  Cognitive
Interest(s): Visual Cognition; Data Visualization; Visuospatial Thinking in STEM (Science, Technology, Education, & Math); Graph Comprehension; Visual Communication; Effective communication of analyses and evidence.
Phone: 847-467-1259
Office Location: Swift 317
franconeri@northwestern.edu

Sid Horton

Associate Professor; Director of Cognitive Psychology

Program Area(s):  Cognitive
Interest(s): Psycholinguistics; Spoken discourse and aging
Phone: 847-467-1293
Office Location: Swift 217
whorton@northwestern.edu

David Rapp

Walter Dill Scott Professor

Program Area(s):  Cognitive
Interest(s): Reading comprehension; learning and memory
Phone: 847-467-1871
Office Location: Annenberg 220
rapp@northwestern.edu

Paul Reber

Professor

Program Area(s):  Cognitive; Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Interest(s): Learning & memory systems of the brain; fMRI
Phone: 847-467-1624
Office Location: Cresap 308
preber@northwestern.edu

Lance Rips

Professor

Program Area(s):  Cognitive
Interest(s): Reasoning, concepts, math, and memory
Phone: 847-491-5947
Office Location: Swift 314
rips@northwestern.edu

Satoru Suzuki

Professor; Director of Graduate Studies

Program Area(s):  Cognitive; Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Interest(s): Vision; cross-modal interactions; awareness
Phone: 847-467-1271
Office Location: Cresap 303
satoru@northwestern.edu

David Uttal

Professor

Program Area(s):  Cognitive
Interest(s): Cognitive development; space; symbols
Phone: 847-467-1925
Office Location: Swift 303A
duttal@northwestern.edu

Sandra Waxman

Professor

Program Area(s):  Cognitive
Interest(s): Language and conceptual development in infants and children; Cognitive development across languages and cultures
Phone: 847-467-2293
Office Location: Swift 211
s-waxman@northwestern.edu