Below are some notable researchers in cognitive neuroscience listed by topic of interest.

Language Steven Pinker Elizabeth Bates Brian MacWhinney Thomas Bever Marta Kutas Laura-Ann Petitto Morton Gernsbacher Angela D. Friederici Giordana Grossi

Memory Brenda Milner Daniel Schacter Endel Tulving Nancy Kanwisher James McGaugh Alexander Luria Morris Moscovitch Larry Squire

Vision David Marr Stephen Kosslyn Roger Shepard Brian Wandell Jerome Lettvin David Hubel Torsten Wiesel Leslie Ungerleider

Learning and Connectionism Joshua Vogelstein Cornelia Bargmann David Rumelhart James McClelland Jeffrey Elman Eric Kandel Annette Karmiloff-Smith Yuko Munakata Mark Johnson Donald O. Hebb Gina Rippon Daphna Joel

Laterality Roger Wolcott Sperry Michael Gazzaniga Wilder Penfield Stephen Kosslyn Elkhonon Goldberg Norman Geschwind

Emotion John Cacioppo C. Sue Carter António Damásio Richard Davidson Jean Decety Joseph E. LeDoux Jaak Panksepp Stephen Porges Robyn Bluhm

Other/Misc. Categories Brian Butterworth Gail Carpenter Stanislas Dehaene Stephen Grossberg Sam Harris Daniel Levitin Edvard Moser May-Britt Moser John O'Keefe (neuroscientist) George Ojemann Isabelle Peretz Michael Posner Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

See also List of cognitive scientists List of neuroscientists List of psychologists