Faculty Directory
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Jeffrey Alberts, Professor
Research Area: Developmental Psychobiology, Neuroscience, Animal Behavior
Research Interests: Ontogeny of species-typical behavior; maturation of sensory and physiological processes; development of learning and memory
Lab: Animal Behavior Laboratory
John
E. Bates, Professor
Research Area: Clinical Science, Developmental Psychology
Research Interests: Development of children's
behavior problems and competencies; family interaction processes; child
temperament, social, cognitive and affective characteristics; socioeconomic
variables
Bennett I. Bertenthal, Rudy Professor, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Research Area: Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience
Research Interests: Perceptual, motor, and cognitive development; Action
observation and execution; Perception of biological motion; Implicit and
explicit knowledge
Geoffrey P. Bingham, Professor
Research Area: Cognitive Science
Research Interests: Human visual and haptic perception, event perception coordination and control of motor activity, Visually guided reaching
Heather Bradshaw, Assistant
Professor
Research Area: Neuroscience
Research Interests: Female reproductive neuroendocrinology and the neurochemistry of reproductive pain
Sharon S. Brehm,
Professor
Research Area: Clinical Science, Social Psychology
Research Interests: Intimate relationships; psychology of women; psychological reactance
Joshua W. Brown,
Assistant Professor
Research Area: Cognitive Science, Neuroscience
Research Interests: Develop computational models of brain circuitry involved in cognitive control; test computational model predictions with fMRI; investigate the neural bases of cognitive impairment in psychopathology, especially substance abuse and schizophrenia, using fMRI and computational modeling
Lab: Cognitive Control Lab
Jerome R. Busemeyer, Professor
Research Area: Cognitive Science
Research Interests: Dynamic, emotional,
and cognitive models of judgment and decision making; neural network models
of function learning, interpolation, extrapolation; methodology for comparing
and testing complex models of behavior; measurement theory with error
contaminated data
Thomas A. Busey, Professor
Research Area: Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Science
Research Interests Visual perception; recognition memory; face recognition EEG analysis of face and object perception; mathematical modeling techniques applied to above domains
Lab: Visual Perception and Electrophysiological Lab
James
C. Craig, Chancellor's Professor
Research Area: Biology and Behavior, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science
Research Interests: Cutaneous pattern perception and communication; psychophysical studies of tactile sensitivity
Lab: Tactile Sensitivity Laboratory
Brian
D'Onofrio, Assistant Professor
Research Area: Clinical Science, Developmental Psychology
Research Interests Developmental Psychopathology; behavior genetics; family systems; children’s intellectual abilities
Lab: Developmental Psychopathology Lab
William K. Estes, Professor and Distinguished Scholar
Research Area: Cognitive Science
Research Interests: Experimental and
theoretical analyses of human and animal learning and the development
of mathematical models for learning, memory, and decision making
Joseph
Farley, Professor
Research Area: Neuroscience, Cognitive Science
Research Interests: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of learning and memory; neurobiology of behavior; Excitable membranes/ion channels; neurobiology of nicotine abuse and addiction; molecular bases of signal transduction; computational models of neuronal excitability
Peter
R. Finn, Professor
Research Area: Clinical Science, Biology and Behavior, Neuroscience
Research Interests: Cognitive and motivational processes in substance abuse and dependence; decision-making; working memory; and self-regulatory processes that contribute to behavioral disinhibition and personality-risk for substance abuse
Lab: Biobehavioral Alcohol Research Laboratory
Preston E. Garraghty, Professor
Research Area: Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Science
Research Interests: Electrophysiological, neuroanatomical, and neurochemical analyses of adult neural plasticity in cortical and subcortical structures, particularly with respect to the contributions of gonadal and stress hormones; Neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and behavioral analyses of animal models of autism; Secondary interests include sensory system development and comparative neuroanatomy
Jason
Gold, Associate Professor
Research Area: Cognitive Science, Biology and Behavior
Research Interests: Pattern vision; Object and face recognition; perceptual learning; perceptual grouping and completion; visual memory; encoding efficiency and information use; Ideal observer theory
Lab: Vision Lab
Robert
L. Goldstone, Chancellor's Professor, Director of Cognitive
Science Program
Research Area: Cognitive Science, Developmental Psychology
Research Interests: Conceptual and perceptual learning; computational models of thought; visual cognition and pattern recognition; analogical reasoning, judgment, and decision making
Lab: Percepts and Concepts Laboratory
Julia
Heiman, Professor, Director of the Kinsey Institute
Research Area: Clinical Science
Research Interests: Human sexuality
Lab: Sexual Psychophysiology Lab
William
Hetrick, Professor
Research Area: Clinical Science, Neuroscience
Research Interests: Brain-behavior
relationships that underlie perceptual and attentional anomalies associated
with schizophrenia and related disorders; intra-subject response variability,
including neural frequency and phase synchronization; role of endogenous
opioids in the self-injurious behavior; relevant methods include human
brain (EEG, ERP) and skeletomotor (EMG) recordings, and clinical-neuropsychological
assessment
Lab: Psychopathology & Neuropsychometry
Lab
Hu Cheng, Physicist, Imaging Research Facility
Research Area: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Research Interests: Artifact reduction for functional MRI; spatial-tempo characteristics of fMRI signal; parallel imaging; ultra-fast imaging techniques
Edward
R. Hirt, Professor
Research Area: Social Psychology, Cognitive Science
Research Interests: Reconstructive memory; Social cognition and social judgment; self-protective strategies, particularly self-handicapping; hypothesis testing; mood effects, intrinsic interest and creativity; social identity and allegiance, particularly fanship
Cynthia Hoffman,
Senior Lecturer
Amy
Holtzworth-Munroe, Professor
Research Area: Clinical Science
Research Interests: Marital violence, divorce mediation, other interventions with high conflict divorcing parents, and studies of the effectiveness of such programs
Lab:
Karin Harman James, Assistant Professor
Research Area: Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain
and Behavior, Developmental Psychology
Research Interests: Action and perception
interactions during learning; development of object recognition; neural
correlates of music processing; reading acquisition
Lab: Cognition and Action Neuroimaging
Lab
Thomas
W. James Assistant Professor
Research Area: Cognitive neuroscience
Research Interests: Visual and haptic
perception; object recognition; cross-sensory integration; priming and
adaptation; functional neuroimaging
Lab: Perception and Neuroimaging
Lab
Michael
N. Jones, Assistant Professor
Research Area: Cognitive Science
Research Interests: Computational models
of memory and language; dynamics of knowledge and language acquisition;
categorization and concept learning; attention in reading and visual navigation;
artificial intelligence; specifically swarm intelligence
Lab: Cognitive Computing Laboratory
Susan
Jones, Professor
Research Area: Cognitive Development in Infancy
Research Interests: Early object name
learning; development of imitation; infant smiling
Lab: Infant Communication
Lab
John
K. Kruschke, Professor
Research Area: Cognitive Science
Research Interests: Bayesian statistics, connectionist and Bayesian models of mind, attention in learning
Lab: Attention
and Learning Lab
Cary Lai, Professor, Linda and Jack Gill Chair of Neuroscience
Research Area: Biology, Behavior and Neuroscience
Research Interests: Developmental neurobiology, the use of transgenic mouse models to study nervous system function
Ken
Mackie, Professor, Interim Director of Gill Center
Research Area: Neuroscience
Research Interests: Regulation of CB1
cannabinoid receptor signaling; regulation of endocannabinoid production;
Role of endocannabinoids in synaptic plasticity; novel cannabinoid receptors
Sharlene
D. Newman, Assistant Professor
Research Area: Biology and Behavior
Research Interests: fMRI of language
processes, problem-solving and planning
Lab: Cognitive NeuroImaging Laboratory
Ben Motz, Lecturer
Robert
M. Nosofsky, Professor
Research Area: Cognitive Psychology
Research Interests: Categorization;
Similarity; recognition memory; mathematical psychology
Brian F. O'Donnell, Associate Professor
Research Area: Clinical Science, Biology and Behavior, Neuroscience
Research Interests: Event-related
potential abnormalities in schizophrenia and related disorders; disturbances
of early stage vision in schizophrenia and affective disorders; event-related
potentials and risk for alcoholism
Luiz Pessoa, Associate Professor
Research Area: Biology and Behavior, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science
Research Interests: Cognitive-emotional
interactions; Vision Attention and awareness; Perceptual decision making;
Functional neuroimaging (fMRI)
Lab: Cognition and Emotion, Laboratory
of
David
B. Pisoni, Chancellor's Professor
Research Area: Cognitive Science, Biology and Behavior
Research Interests: Psycholinguistics,
speech perception, production and synthesis, perceptual development; spoken
language comprehension, voice I/O technology, human factors; hearing impairment,
cochlear implants, individual differences, and multi-modal perception
of speech
Lab: Speech Research Lab
Anne
Prieto, Assistant Professor
Research Area: Biology and Behavior, Neuroscience
Research Interests: Molecular cellular
basis of neuronal plasticity; Learning and memory; functions of receptor
tyrosine kinases in the central nervous system signal transduction; developmental
neurobiology; neuronal and glial differentiation; functional roles of
cell adhesion molecules and extracellular matrix proteins in morphogenesis
Aina Puce, Eleanor Cox Riggs Professor, Director of Imaging Research Facility
Research Area: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Cognition, Neuroimaging
Research Interests: Social cognition; nonverbal communication; multisensor processing; functional MRI; electroencephalography; eye tracking; transcranial magnetic stimulation
Lab: Social Neuroscience Lab (EEG/TMS)
George V. Rebec, Chancellor's Professor, Director of Program in Neuroscience
Research Area: Biology and Behavior, Neuroscience
Research Interests: Mechanisms of
action of drugs of abuse; neurochemical correlates of movement and motivation;
real-time assessments of neurotransmitter function during behavior; genetic
and neurotoxic models of neurodegenerative disease
Lab: Preclinical Pharmacology
Laboratory
Alan Roberts, Senior Lecturer
Research Area: Clinical Science, Personality Psychology
Research Interests: Personality and individual differences in vulnerability to eating pathology and weight disorders
Deborah Rocha, Grants Writer/Coordinator
Robert "BJ" Rydell, Assistant Professor
Research Area: Social Psychology
Research Interests: Social Cognition; Attitude Formation, Representation, and Change; Impression Formation; Stereotype Threat
Dale
R. Sengelaub, Professor
Research Area: Neuroscience
Research Interests: Development of
the nervous system; plasticity of neural structure and function
Lab: Sengelabs: Motoneuron plasticity,
therapeutics, and development
Steven
J. Sherman, Professor
Research Area: Social Psychology, Cognitive Science
Research Interests: Social cognition;
human judgment; impressions of individuals and groups; adolescent health behavior.
Lab: Sherman Social
Cogntion Research Lab
Richard
M. Shiffrin, Luther Dana Waterman Professor
Research Area: Cognitive Science
Research Interests: Short and long
term memory; attention Stages of information processing; retrieval and
forgetting; mathematical computer simulation; neural network models
Lab: Memory and Perception
Lab
Linda Sinex, Lecturer
Eliot
R. Smith, War Years Chancellor's Professor
Research Area: Social Psychology
Research Interests: Role of intergroup emotions
(emotions experienced with respect to one's collective self as a group
member) in prejudice and intergroup relations; New conceptualizations
of cognition as situated and embodied and their implications for social
cognition; Connectionist or neural network models in social psychology;
Social cognition
in general, particularly the nature of mental representations of persons
and groups and their effects on social judgments, including person perception
and stereotyping
Lab: Socially Situated Cognition Lab
Linda
B. Smith, Class of ‘69 Chancellor's Professor, Department
Chair
Research Area: Cognitive Science, Developmental Psychology
Research Interests: Perceptual and
cognitive development in early childhood; classification and categorization;
interactions between perception and language
Lab: Cognitive Development Lab
Olaf
Sporns, Professor, Associate Department Chair
Research Area: Cognitive Science, Neuroscience
Research Interests: Computational
and cognitive neuroscience; functional integration and binding in the
cortex; neural models of perception and action; network structure and
dynamics; applications of information theory to the brain; embodied cognitive
science; robotics
Lab: Computational
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
Lisa Thomassen, Lecturer
Research Area: Social Psychology
Research Interests: Identity and Emotions, Sentiment Socialization, Deviance, Alcohol Treatment, Affect Control Theory research program
Scott Thompson, Senior Lecturer, Psi Chi Advisor
William Timberlake, Professor
Research Area: Animal Behavior, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science
Research Interests: Animal behavior
and learning behavior theory; regulatory processes; behavior systems analyses
of learning; circadian anticipation of food and addictive drugs; neural
bases of general search behavior; time horizons
Lab: Behavior Systems and Learning
Lab
Peter M. Todd, Professor of Cognitive Science, Psychology
and Informatics
Research Area: Cognitive Science, Social Psychology
Research Interests: Simple heuristics for decision
making, and how they capitalize on the structure of information in environments;
evolution of behavior (experimental approaches to evolutionary psychology
and computer simulations of simple organisms adapting to different environmental
structures, both physical and social); emergence of environment structure
through interactions of populations of agents following simple behavioral
rules; how people and other animals search for resources in time and space,
from sequential search for mates or jobs to foraging for prey or parking
spaces; artificial life approaches to music; making decisions about food
and eating, and cognition of consumption
Lab: Adaptive
Behavior and Cognition Lab
James
T. Townsend, Rudy Professor of Psychology
Research Area: Cognitive Science
Research Interests: Development of
general mathematical approaches to human information processing in cognitive
and clinical psychology including: visual pattern recognition, especially
face perception, memory scanning, decision theory, human factors, applications
to schizophrenia and autism
Lab: Mathematical Psychology
Laboratory
Richard
J. Viken, Professor, Director of Clinical Training
Research Area: Clinical Science
Research Interests: Antisocial behavior; social
interaction; family process; behavior genetics; alcohol use and abuse
Barbara
Walker, Clinical Professor
Research Area: Clinical Psychology
Research Interests: Behavioral medicine/health
Psychology; evidence-based practice; psychophysiological disorders; chronic
disease management; integrated primary care
Irene Vlachos-Weber, Lecturer
Stanley
Wasserman, Rudy Professor of Sociology, Psychology, and Statistics
Research Area: Mathematical Psychology
Research Interests: Applied statistics; social
networks
Cara L. Wellman, Associate Professor
Research Area: Neuroscience, Biology and Behavior, Clinical Science
Research Interests Age-related changes in neural
plasticity and their relationship to cognition; neurochemical
and morphological correlates of uncontrollable and controllable stress
Lab: Wellman Neurobiology Lab
Meredith West, Class of '71 Chancellor's Professor
Research Area: Biology and Behavior, Animal Behavior
Research Interests: Development of
behavior in animals and humans with a particular interest in how learning
and species-typical experience affect ontogenetic and/or phylogenetic
processes
Lab: Animal Behavior Farm
Chen
Yu, Assistant Professor
Research Area: Cognitive Science, Developmental
Psychology
Research Interests: Cognitive development; language
acquisition; perceptual intelligence; machine learning
Lab: Computational Cognition and
Learning Lab
