Lera Boroditsky
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Psychology, Stanford University, 2001. Relationships between mind, world and language. Meaning and use. Acquisition of language and meaning. Metaphoric structuring, conceptual development, and conceptual change. Interrelationships between language, cognition, and perception. Cross-linguistic similarities and differences in thought.
http://psychology.stanford.edu/~lera/

Kalanit Grill-Spector
Assistant Professor
Kalanit Grill-Spector earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2000, and is now Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Stanford University. Her main research interests are high-level vision, object face recognition, learning categories and concepts. She studies the neural basis of visual cognition utilizing functional imaging (fMRI), computational techniques and behavioral methods to investigate visual object recognition and other high-level visual processes. She is interested in investigating the underlying representations and cortical mechanisms that subserve recognition, and the relation between these neural processes, and our visual perception of the world. She regularly guest lectures for Psychology One this year on the topic of sensation and perception.
http://psychology.stanford.edu/~kalanit/

Hazel Markus
Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences
Hazel Rose Markus received her B.A. degree from California State University at San Diego and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1975. She has been a professor of Psychology at Stanford University since 1994 and prior to that was a faculty member in the department of psychology at the University of Michigan. She was also a research scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Her research is concerned with the sociocultural shaping of the mind and self. She is specifically concerned with how gender, ethnicity, religion, social class, cohort, region or country of national origin may influence thought and feeling, particularly self-relevant thought and feeling. Her recent studies of Japanese and American college students have focused on similarities and differences in the nature of self-concept and in the functioning of self-esteem. She was elected to the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences in 1994 and was recently named the Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She regularly guest lectures for Psychology One on Cultural Psychology.
http://markus.socialpsychology.org/

Robert Sapolsky
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Robert Sapolsky is Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience, receipient of the MacArthur "Genius Award", and the 1992 Young Investigator of the Year Award by the Society for Neuroscience. He is generally and rightly regarded as one of the best teachers at Stanford and has won most of the awards one can be given for teaching and research. He's written several books, including the must read "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers". Robert Sapolsky's laboratory focuses on three issues: a) how a neuron dies during aging or following various neurological insults; b) how such neuron death can be accelerated by stress; c) the design of gene therapy strategies to protect endangered neurons from neurological disease. For three months each year, Professor Sapolsky studies wild baboons in the Serengeti of East Africa. He examines what a baboon's dominance rank, social behavior, and personality have to do with patterns of stress-related diseases. Robert Sapolsky regularly guest lectures for Psych One on the biological and psychological reactions of stress.
http://sbrc.stanford.edu/faculty/sbrc_fac_list/sapolsky.html

Anthony D. Wagner
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Psychology, Stanford Univeristy, 1997. Cognitive neuroscience of memory and cognitive/executive control in young and older adults. Research interests include encoding and retrieval mechanisms; interactions between declarative, nondeclarative, and working memory; forms of cognitive control; neurocognitive aging; functional organization of prefrontal cortex and the medial temporal lobe, assessed by functional MRI, MEG/ERP, and transcranial magnetic stimulation.