Our Cognitive Science Faculty Affiliates are faculty who conduct research in the cognitive sciences, teach classes on approved electives list, and are available to advise enrolled Cognitive Science Program students on their dissertation committees to fulfill the final requirement of graduating with the emphasis (see full details here). Each affiliate's list of topics for serving as committee members are listed in their bio.

Adina Roskies

Professor of Philosophy
Cognitive Science Program Director
Cognitive Science Steering Committee
Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Neuroscience, Free Will, Brain Imaging

Colin Allen

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy of Cognitive Science; Philosophy of Neuroscience; Computational Humanities; Artificial Intelligence. animal learning & cognition, machine learning, cognitive modeling, dynamical systems, learning & memory, categorization & concepts, emotions, consciousness, corpus linguistics, evolution of cognition.

Tobias Höllerer

Professor of Computer Science
Cognitive Science Steering Committee
UCSB Media Arts & Technology Program Faculty Affiliate
Visual Computing and Interaction; Machine Learning and Data Mining; Social Computing; Human-Computer Interaction; Visualization & Computer Graphics; VR & Augmented Reality; Wearable & Ubiquitous Computing

Richard Mayer

Distinguished Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Cognitive Science Steering Committee
Mayer Lab for Research on Learning & Instruction, Director
Human Learning; Problem-Solving; Educational Psychology; Cognition & Perception, Human-Computer Interaction, Mathematical & Scientific Reasoning

Hongbo Yu

Principle Investigator, Yu Emotion Science Lab
Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Cognitive Science Steering Committee
cognitive neuroscience, emotion, moral cognition, neuroimaging, social perception, computational models

Brandon Woo

Assistant Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences
FOLK Lab, Director
 social cognition, theory of mind, moral development, infant cognition, early social evaluation, action understanding, close relationships, perspective taking, open science

Janet Bourne

Assistant Professor, Music Theory Program
Cognitive Science Steering Committee
Music cognition; music theory; cognitive methodologies; musical categorization, analogy, and metaphor; modes of listening; musical communication and sense-making; musical narratives; listener experiences and identities; music and language; film music and media psychology

Sowon Park

Assistant Prof of English
Cognitive Science Steering Committee
Emotion, 4-E cognition (embodied, enactive, embedded and extended mind), Empathy, Narrative, Neurodiversity, Neuroaesthetics, Neurophenomenology, Affordance.