WiCS Leadership Team

Karin Butler is a principal member of technical staff in the Applied Cognitive Science Organization at Sandia National Laboratories. Her work involves applying principles and techniques from experimental psychology and human factors to improve decision making and human performance during system design, production and analysis. Her research interests include development and evaluation of decision support systems, particularly systems that enhance the understanding and decision making of users.

Bonnie Nozari is an associate professor at the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. Her lab studies how humans translate thoughts into language in various modalities, and how they detect and correct their own errors. More generally, the lab is interested in uncovering the computational principles underlying language processing that are shared with other systems, such as visual processing, and motor control, how such processes develop and mature, and what the consequences of their disruption are for individuals with brain damage. Bonnie is also the associate editor of the Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Laurie Feldman is Professor of Psychology at The University at Albany, State University of New York and Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, CT. Her research focuses on how speakers of a language understand and produce words composed of several meaningful components (morphemes). It spans native language processing of several languages with very different structures (viz., HEBREW, SERBIAN, CHINESE as well as ENGLISH) and mastery of past tense inflectional morphology in English among speakers and readers with non-native as well as native proficiency. Much of the work is conducted abroad and has been supported by fellowships from NAS and from NSF/WISC (AAAS). She has a history of support from NICHD to Haskins Laboratories. She edited a volume entitled Morphological Aspects of Language Processing. She serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition and Mental Lexicon. She is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. She worked on the salary task force at The University at Albany.

Zenzi M. Griffin is a Professor of Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin. She earned a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998. Before going to Texas, she was on the psychology faculty at Stanford University and then the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Dr. Griffin studies the psychological processes that result in speech. She has been particularly concerned with how people select words, order phrases, and the way that they manage (and mismanage) the timing of word retrieval. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health and she has often served on panels for both organizations.

Helene Intraub is Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and of the Psychonomic Society. She served as Chair of the Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society (2013), and as a member of the Governing Board (2009-2014). She has been a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, a representative at the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and a representative on the Council of Science Society Presidents. She and her students study spatial cognition, focusing on scene perception and memory. Her program of research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. An advocate of science outreach, she serves on the Committee of Science and the Arts at The Franklin Institute. She was honored to have boundary extension, an aspect of scene representation discovered in her lab, featured in the Exploratorium Science Museum exhibit, “Human Memory”, and its subsequent 5-year International Science Museum Tour.

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Randi C. Martin is the Elma Schneider Professor of Psychology. She is editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was recently elected a member of the Society of Experimental Psychologists. Her research on short-term memory and language processing in aphasia has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1984. Currently, her research focuses on the role of interference and retrieval from working memory during sentence production and comprehension.

Mary A. Peterson received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1984 and is currently Professor in the Department of Psychology and Research Social Scientist in the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on visual cognition, in particular, on the competitive processes involved in figure and ground assignment, the role of past experience and context in perceptual organization, and the use of implicit measures to index shape learning. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society and of the American Psychological Association and a member of the Society of Experimental Psychologists. She was Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (1996-1999) and is currently on the editorial boards of that journal and Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. With Gillian Rhodes, she co-edits a book series "Advances in Visual Cognition" for Oxford University Press.

Mary C. Potter is a professor of Psychology in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science at MIT. She got her B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1952 and her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1961. She has served on the Board of the Psychonomic Society, becoming Chair in 1991. She was Chair of the Faculty at MIT in 1985-87. She was on the Executive Committee of Attention and Performance, 1994-2002. She is a Fellow of the APA and APS, and a member of the Society of Experimental Psychologists.Her research interests are in high-level visual perception, attention, and memory, as well as psycholinguistics and picture comprehension. She is particularly interested in processes that occur in the first second or two after a stimulus has been presented, a period when conceptual short termmemory (CSTM) permits high-level comprehension.

Debra Titone is Professor of Psychology at McGill University. Her research investigates the cognitive and neural underpinnings of language, with particular emphases on reading, bilingualism, formulaic or figurative language, and special populations for whom these aspects of language are challenging (e.g., healthy older adults; people with schizophrenia, dyslexia). Titone’s research has been continuously funded since 2000, first in the U.S. and now in Canada, where she held a federally supported junior Canada Research Chair for the award’s maximum duration (2003 - 2013). She is an active member of the Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music at McGill, serves on the Editoral Board of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, and is Associate Editor for the journal, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.

Jennifer Trueblood is an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, Irvine. Her research takes a joint experimental and computational modeling approach to study human judgment, decision-making, reasoning, and memory. Jennifer's work examines how people make decisions when faced with multiple-alternatives and in changing environments. She is also interested in how people reason about causal events and how different perspectives, contexts, and frames can lead to interference effects in decision-making and memory. She is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Mathematical Psychology and is one of the organizers of the Women of Mathematical Psychology group.

Janet van Hell received her Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in 1998. She is currently Professor of Psychology and Linguistics, Director of the Linguistics Program, and Associate Director of the Center for Language Science at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on second language learning and bilingualism as well as later language development in children with typical or atypical language development. Her research has an interdisciplinary orientation as she combines behavioral, neuropsychological, and linguistic techniques to study language development and language processing. Her research is supported by grants from, amongst others, the Dutch National Science Foundation, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science, and research institutes within the Radboud University Nijmegen. In 2005 Janet van Hell was appointed as a member, and in 2007 elected as a board member, of De Jonge Akademie (the Young Academy) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Janet van Hell is also board member of the Dutch Psychonomic Society. She co-organizes Women in Cognitive Science meetings at Psychonomics, and the bi-annual European Conference of Cognitive Psychology (2003-now). Janet is currently Editor of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology.