Board on Behavioral Cognitive and Sensory Sciences

Membership

Dr. Philip E. Rubin - (Chair)

Dr. Rubin is Chief Executive Officer, Vice President and Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Rubin is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Surgery, Otolaryngology at the Yale University School of Medicine and a research affiliate in the Department of Psychology. Dr. Rubin’s research concerns articulatory synthesis (computational modeling of the physiology and acoustics of speech production), sinewave synthesis, signal processing, perceptual organization, and theoretical approaches and modeling of complex temporal events. From 2000 through 2003, Dr. Rubin served as the Director of the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences at the National Science Foundation. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Acoustical Society of America, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science. Dr. Rubin served as a member of the NSTC Interagency Working Group on Social and Behavioral and Economic Sciences Task Force on Anti-Terrorism Research and Development. He is also the Chairman of the Board of the Discovery Museum and Planetarium in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Dr. Linda M. Bartoshuk

Dr. Bartoshuk is currently Professor in the Department of Surgery and Research Scientist in Otolaryngology at the Yale University School of Medicine. She has just accepted an invitation to join the faculty of the University of Florida at Gainesville this fall. Dr. Bartoshuk’s research on taste reveals that the ability to taste strongly influences diet which, in turn, affects risk factors for a variety of diseases (e.g., avoidance of bitter vegetables may lead to increased cancer risk; avoidance of high fat foods may lead to decreased cardiovascular risk). Dr. Bartoshuk studies the links between oral sensation and behavior in normal subjects as well as patients suffering from taste/oral pain disorders. She also develops methods that can provide valid comparisons of sensations across subject/groups. Dr. Bartoshuk has won many awards for her research. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and past-president of its Division of Comparative and Physiological Psychology and of the Society for General Psychology. She was also on the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Society.

Dr. Susan E. Carey

Dr. Carey is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Dr. Carey's research probes the nature and development of human knowledge. It has scientifically defined the concepts that organize children's and adults' understanding of number, biology, and the material world. Her experiments illuminate how thought and language develop spontaneously. This knowledge has helped educators to improve the way that science and mathematics are taught. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002, to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001, and to the National Academy of Education in 1999. She was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, and winner of the Nicod Prize in 1998. Dr. Carey has served on two NRC committees on learning and instruction.

Dr. John A. Ferejohn

Dr. Ferejohn is a senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Carolyn S. G. Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. He is also a professor (by courtesy) in the Department of Economics and in the Graduate School of Business. His primary areas of scholarly interest are political theory and the study of political institutions and behavior. His current research focuses on Congress, law and legislation, constitutional adjudication in the United States and Europe, separation of powers, political campaigns and elections, and the philosophy of social science. He serves on a number of editorial boards and is the author of several books. Formerly a professor of political science at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Ferejohn joined the Hoover Institution and Stanford University in 1983. He has held fellowships with the Brookings Institution, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois, and the Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science and the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Martin Fishbein

Dr. Fishbein is the Harry C. Coles Jr. Distinguished Professor in Communication, and director of the health communication program in the Public Policy Center of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Developer of the theory of reasoned action, Dr. Fishbein has contributed over 200 articles and chapters to professional books and journals, and has authored or edited six books. Dr. Fishbein’s research interests include attitude theory and measurement, communication and persuasion, behavioral prediction and change, intervention development, implementation and evaluation, studies of the relations among beliefs, attitudes, intentions and behaviors in field and laboratory settings including studies of the effectiveness of health-related behavior change interventions. He has been president of both the Society for Consumer Psychology (Division 23 of the APA) and the Interamerican Psychological Society.

Dr. Lila R. Gleitman

Dr. Gleitman is Professor of Psychology and Linguistics and co-director of the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gleitman’s main research concerns the architecture and semantic content of the mental lexicon, i.e., the psychological representation of the forms and meanings of words. Another major interest is in how children acquire both the lexicon and the syntactic structure of their native tongue. Dr. Gleitman has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2000 and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1999. She is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Cognitive Science Society. Dr. Gleitman is a member of the NSF’s Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Advisory Committee. She is co-editor of the MIT Press Series: Language, Development and Conceptual Change, and is on the editorial board of many other journals and book series.

Dr. Arie W. Kruglanski

Dr. Kruglanski is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland and a co-director of the Center of Excellence for Research on the Behavioral and Social Aspects of Terrorism and Counterterrorism. His research is focused on social goals, psychological stability and change, accuracy and bias in social perception, minority influence, and decision-making under pressure. Dr. Kruglanski’s interests have centered on how people form judgments, beliefs, impressions and attitudes and what consequences this has for their interpersonal relations, their interaction in groups, and their feelings about various "out groups." He has been awarded numerous grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and has served as a reviewer of grants for both institutions. He has been editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and is currently associate editor of the American Psychologist. He also serves on the editorial boards of several other journals. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. He was a member of the NRC Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism: Panel on Behavioral, Social, and Institutional Issues.

Dr. Richard E. Nisbett

Dr. Nisbett is Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan and co-director of the Culture and Cognition Program there. Dr. Nisbett’s research interests have focused primarily on how laypeople reason and make inferences about the world. His earlier work was concerned with inductive inference, causal reasoning and covariation detection. More recent work on reasoning compares East Asians with Westerners. He has also studied "cultures of honor" and the Hispanic cultural tradition of sympatia, and the ways in which it differs from mainstream American culture. Dr. Nisbett was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002 and became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992. He was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. His book The Geography of Thought won the American Psychological Association’s William James Book Award in 2004.

Dr. Valerie F. Reyna

Dr. Reyna is Professor in the Department of Human Development at Cornell University. Dr. Reyna’s research focuses on dual processes in memory, judgment, and decision making, on how these processes change with age and expertise, and on their implications for risky decision making in law, health, and medicine. She is also an expert on false memory. She is co-developer of fuzzy-trace theory, a theory of memory and its relation to higher cognitive processes. Dr. Reyna is on the editorial boards of a half-dozen journals in the fields of child development and memory and has reviewed grants for the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She has published three books and many dozen book chapters and journal articles. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Society. She was also elected to Sigma Xi and the Psychonomic Society.

Dr. Lisa M. Savage

Dr. Savage is Associate Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York, Binghamton. She is also the director of graduate studies for the department and behavioral neuroscience area head. Dr. Savage conducts research on the neurobiology of memory and the development of psychological and pharmacological therapeutics for the treatment of memory disorders. Using drugs, diet, neurotoxins, and aged rodents, Dr. Savage models human amnesia (i.e., Wernicke-Korsakoff's disease, alcohol-induced dementia, and Alzheimer's disease). Behavior of the whole organism is assessed before and after brain damage, and the extent of brain pathology is correlated with behavioral impairment. Dr. Savage was given the American Psychological Association’s Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of animal learning and behavior in 2002. She recently received a major grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for work on amnesia and acetylcholine dysfunction. She reviews grants for the National Science Foundation and is a reviewer for a dozen neuroscience and psychological research journals.

Dr. Brian A. Wandell

Dr. Wandell is the first Isaac and Madeline Stein Family Professor at Stanford University. He works on problems in visual neuroscience and image system engineering. The visual neuroscience work uses both functional MRI and behavior testing to understand processing in the visual portions of the brain.  His team has developed a set of methods for identifying and measuring the signals in several visual areas within the human brain, including regions that respond powerful to motion and color. Recently, his team measured the reorganization of brain function during human development and following brain injury; they are now actively studying the development of visual signals during the age period in which children are learning to read, as well as changes to cortex caused by retinal dysfunction.  In image systems engineering, Professor Wandell co-founded Stanford’s Center for Image Systems Engineering.  His team studies digital imaging technologies, including image sensors, high dynamic range displays, and software simulations of image capture and display. Wandell is the author of the vision science textbook Foundations of Vision.  In 1986, he won the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences for his work in color vision.  He was made a fellow of the Optical Society of America in 1990 and, in 1997, he became a McKnight Senior Investigator and received the Edridge-Green Medal in Ophthalmology for work in visual neuroscience.  In 2000, he was awarded the Macbeth Prize from the Inter-Society Color Council.  Wandell was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2003.

Dr. J. Frank Yates

Dr. Yates is Professor of Marketing and Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Yates current research activity includes judgment and decision processes (including special emphases on cross-cultural variations), decision aiding, judgment analysis and applications of cognitive psychology. Dr. Yates has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a National Science Foundation Fellow, University of Michigan Distinguished Service Award winner, Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Honorable Mention Teaching Award winner, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan, Charter Fellow of the American Psychological Society, Senior Fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows, and Perrin Faculty Award winner. Dr. Yates has held positions at Rice University, Peking University, and the University of Leiden, and has published widely.

Dr. Christine Hartel - (Staff Officer)
National Research Council