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My work can be best described as comparative cognitive neuroscience, which is characterized by two related approaches. One is a cross-species approach, comparing rat models of the neurochemistry of attention and learning to humans, focusing on the neurochemical acetylcholine. The other is an across the lifespan approach, examining the cholinergic hypothesis of age-related changes in cognition.

We use activity mapping from fMRI data to provide theoretical models that can then be more fully tested

At some point in time I have found myself at Vassar, Harvard, City College NY, Yale, Stanford, and the University of Toronto. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Staten Island, I am happy to be back in my home state of NY and hoping to live up to Cornell's land grant mission.  

I am interested in the role of the emotions in all human faculties. Considering both psychological, physiological and neural levels of analysis, a

I am the author of approximately 450 articles, books, commentaries, reviews, and chapters, many in the premier journals in the field. According to Google Scholar, my work has been cited about 43,000 times and my h-index is 83-84, i10=261, with ~40 publications each cited over 100 times and 10 cited over 1,000 times. I have given hundreds of invited addresses and keynote speeches around the world (Harvard, Cambridge University, Oxford, Yale, Princeton, University of Rome

Wendy M. Williams is a Professor in the Department of Human Development at Cornell University, where she studies the development, assessment, training, and societal implications of intelligence and cognitive performance in real-world contexts. She holds Ph.D. and Master's degrees in psychology from Yale University, a Master's in physical anthropology from Yale, and a B.A. in English and biology from Columbia University, awarded cum laude with special distinction. In the fall of 2009, Williams founded (and

Nancy Wells is an environmental psychologist who studies people's relationship to the built and natural environment through the life course.  Her studies have focused on residential environments -- housing and neighborhoods -- and more recently schools.  Dr. Wells completed a joint PhD in Psychology and Architecture at the University of Michigan; and then NIMH post-doctoral training at the University of California, Irvine.

I-An "Amy" Su is a sixth-year Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology with a concentration in Law, Psychology, and Human Development in the Department of Psychology (formerly Department of Human Development) at Cornell University. She is also on the track for a Ph.D. Minor in Statistics (Applied Statistics) and a Graduate Minor in Cognitive Science.

She works in Professor Stephen J. Ceci's Child Witness & Cognition (CWC) Lab on a transnational study of children's eyewitness memory and