COGNITION

Edward Awh PhD

Professor, Department of Psychology and The College

Professor Awh received a BA in Psychology from Northwestern University and MA and Ph.D. in Psychology from University of Michigan. He completed his dissertation research in the laboratories of John Jonides and Edward E. Smith at Michigan. Professor Awh did his postdoctoral research at the Center for Human Information Processing at University of California, San Diego.

Prior to UChicago, Professor Awh held a faculty appointment in the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Neuroscience at University of Oregon.

Leslie Kay PhD

Professor, Department of Psychology and The College

Professor Kay received a BA in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico and then worked for the original GenBank project at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1982-85. She worked as a programmer/analyst in business applications for a number of years in the mid- to late 80s, and then returned to graduate school at UC Berkeley. She completed her dissertation research in the laboratory of Walter J. Freeman, and received a Ph.D. in Biophysics in 1995. Kay completed postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Gilles Laurent at the California Institute of Technology, where she studied olfactory bulb mitral cell responses to changes in odor context.

Sarah E. London PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and The College

Professor London received her BA in Biology and Psychology from Middlebury College and her Ph.D. in in Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship and was also a Research Scientist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Steven K. Shevell PhD

Eliakim Hastings Moore Distinguished Service Professor

Departments of Psychology and Ophthalmology & Visual Science

Professor Shevell received an A.B. in Psychology and M.S. in Engineering from Stanford University; an M.A. in statistics from University of Michigan; and a Ph.D. in Psychology (mathematical psychology area) from the University of Michigan. He is the founding associate editor of the Journal of Vision, former senior editor of Vision Research, past- president of the Vision Sciences Society and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), the Optical Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Edward K. Vogel PhD

Director, Institute for Mind and Biology

Professor, Department of Psychology and The College

Professor Vogel received a BA in Psychology from University of Puget Sound and a Ph.D. in Pyschology from University of Iowa. He completed his dissertation in the lab of Steven J. Luck.Professor Vogel held a postdoctoral research position at the Institute for Neural Computation at University of California, San Diego.
Prior to UChicago, Professor Vogel held faculty appointments in the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Neuroscience at University of Oregon.

Jai Y. Yu PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and The College

Professor Yu received a BBiomedSc and a BSc (Hons) from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He completed graduate research with Barry Dickson at the Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna, Austria. Professor Yu held a postdoctoral research position in the lab of Loren Frank at the University of California, San Francisco.

Professor Yu’s research focuses on understanding the contribution of coordinated brain activity to learning and memory. His lab combines neural recording and manipulation techniques with computational methods to investigate the relationship between neural activity and behavior.