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Alexander Kranjec, Ph.D.
City University of New York
Alexander Kranjec studied Philosophy at Grinnell College and received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the City University of New York. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Neurology Department and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania.
Broadly speaking, Dr. Kranjec studies how the mind and brain represent meaning, with and without language. He uses cognitive behavioral methods, neuroimaging (fMRI) and non-invasive brain stimulation (tDCS) in normal participants, and lesion analysis methods in patients with focal brain damage. He is particularly interested in how different kinds of basic spatial representations bias and facilitate thought in other domains.
