Graduate Advising Faculty List
Only the faculty listed below may serve as the primary advisors (directors of first and second year research projects, dissertations). Graduate applicants: On the graduate application's "departmental questions," you may only list these faculty as those that you'd like to work with.
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Jeffrey Alberts alberts [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 326 | (812)855-3309 lab: Animal Behavior Lab
Ontogeny of species-typical behavior; maturation of sensory and physiological processes; development of learning and memory |
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John Bates batesj [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 146 | (812)855-8693 lab: Social Development Lab
Development of children's behavior problems and competencies; family interaction processes; child temperament, social, cognitive and affective characteristics; socioeconomic variables |
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Bennett Bertenthal bbertent [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 371 | (812)856-0958 lab: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Perceptual, motor, and cognitive development; Action observation and execution; Perception of biological motion; Implicit and explicit knowledge |
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Geoffrey Bingham gbingham [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 322 | (812)855-4322 lab: Perception/Action Lab
Perception/Action, Visual Event perception, Optic flow, Space perception, Motor coordination and Control, SFM and shape perception, Visually guided reach-to-grasp. |
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Heather Bradshaw hbbradsh [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: MSB2 116 | (812)856-1559 lab: Bradshaw Lab of Reproductive Neuroscience
Female reproductive neuroendocrinology and the neurochemistry of reproductive pain |
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Sharon Brehm sbrehm [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile | personal website office: PY 160 | (812)855-4234
Intimate relationships; psychology of women; psychological reactance |
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Joshua Brown jwmbrown [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 336 | (812)855-9282 lab: Cognitive Control Lab
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 |
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Jerome Busemeyer jbusemey [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile | personal website office: PY 328 | (812)855-4882 lab: Decision Research Laboratory
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 |
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Thomas Busey busey [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile | personal website office: PY 330 | (812)855-4261 lab: Visual Perception and Electrophysiological Lab
Visual perception; recognition memory; face recognition EEG analysis of face and object perception; mathematical modeling techniques applied to above domains |
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James Craig craigj [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 356 | (812)855-3926 lab: Tactile Sensitivity Laboratory
Cutaneous pattern perception and communication; psychophysical studies of tactile sensitivity |
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Jonathon Crystal jcrystal [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: MSB2 224 | (812)856-2246 lab: Comparative Cognition Laboratory
Comparative Cognition, episodic memory, metacognition, time perception, circadian rhythms, learning and memory, disorders of memory (e.g., Alzheimer's) |
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Brian D'Onofrio bmdonofr [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 134 | (812)856-0843 lab: Developmental Psychopathology Lab
Developmental Psychopathology; behavior genetics; family systems; children |
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Joseph Farley farleyj [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: MSBII 218 | (812)855-6828 lab: MSBII 242 | (812)855-8142
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 |
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Peter Finn finnp [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 156 | (812)855-9548 lab: Biobehavioral Alcohol Research Laboratory
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 |
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Preston Garraghty pgarragh [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile | personal website office: PY 320 | (812)855-9679 lab: PY A412 | (812)855-6722
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 |
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Jason Gold jgold [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile | personal website office: PY 352 | (812)855-4635 lab: Vision Lab
Pattern vision; Object and face recognition; perceptual learning; perceptual grouping and completion; visual memory; encoding efficiency and information use; Ideal observer theory |
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Robert Goldstone rgoldsto [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile | personal website office: PY 338 | (812)855-4853 lab: Percepts and Concepts Laboratory
Conceptual and perceptual learning; computational models of thought; visual cognition and pattern recognition; analogical reasoning, judgment, and decision making |
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Julia Heiman jheiman [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile | personal website office: MO 313 | (812)855-7686 lab: Sexual Psychophysiology Lab
Human sexuality |
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William Hetrick whetrick [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 154 | (812)855-2620 lab: Psychopathology & Neuropsychometry Lab
Cognitive neuroscience of schizophrenia and related psychological disorders; Clinical translational psychopathology approaches to understanding risk factors and "illness" mechanisms using both human and animal models; Temporal processing, cerebellar function, and brain micro-state measures of cognitive discoordination; Methods utilized in the lab include fMRI, EEG, ERPs, rTMS, EMG, and clinical-neuropsychological assessment. |
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Edward Hirt ehirt [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 340 | (812)855-4815 lab: Hirtlab: Social Psychology of Motivation and Performance
Mental depletion; 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; reconstructive memory |
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Andrea Hohmann hohmanna [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: MSB2 220 | (812)856-0672 lab: MSB2 254 | (812)856-3523
Mechanisms of pain, novel pain therapies |
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Amy Holtzworth-Munroe holtzwor [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 148 | (812)855-8159 lab: PY A224 | (812)855-7895
Marital violence, divorce mediation, other interventions with high conflict divorcing parents, and studies of the effectiveness of such programs |
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Karin James khjames [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 368 | (812)856-0659 lab: Cognition and Action Neuroimaging Lab
Action and perception interactions during learning; development of object recognition; neural correlates of music processing; reading acquisition |
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Thomas James thwjames [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile | personal website office: PY 158 | (812)856-0841 lab: Perception and Neuroimaging Lab
Visual and haptic perception; object recognition; cross-sensory integration; priming and adaptation; functional neuroimaging |
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Michael Jones jonesmn [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile | personal website office: PY 370 | (812)856-1490 lab: Cognitive Computing Laboratory
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 |
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Susan Jones jones1 [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 344 | (812)855-8182 lab: Infant Communication Lab
Early object name learning; development of imitation; infant smiling |
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John Kruschke kruschke [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile | personal website office: PY 364 | (812)855-3192 lab: PY 243 | (812)855-8694
Science of morality, Bayesian statistics and applications in models of teaching and learning |
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Cary Lai carylai [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: MSBII 122 | (812)856-4998 lab: MSBII 150-15 | (812)856-5239
Developmental neurobiology, the use of transgenic mouse models to study nervous system function |
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Cara Lewis lewiscc [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 162 | (812)855-6952 lab: Psychosocial Intervention and Implementation Sciences lab
cognitive behavioral therapy; treatment outcome; predictors, moderators, and mediators of outcome; efficacy and effectiveness research; adolescent and adult depression; comorbidity; dissemination and implementation; methods and measurement of implementation research |
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Ken Mackie kmackie [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: MSBII 120 | (812)855-2042 lab: MSBII 142 | (812)856-2684
Regulation of CB1 cannabinoid receptor signaling; regulation of endocannabinoid production; Role of endocannabinoids in synaptic plasticity; novel cannabinoid receptors |
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Sharlene Newman sdnewman [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 362 | (812)856-0839 lab: Cognitive NeuroImaging Lab
fMRI of language processes, problem-solving and planning |
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Robert Nosofsky nosofsky [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile | personal website office: PY 342 | (812)855-2534 lab: Categorization and Memory Lab |
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Brian O'Donnell bodonnel [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 150 | (812)856-4164 lab: PY A204 | (812)856-4676
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 |
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David Pisoni pisoni [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 366 | (812)855-1155 lab: Speech Research Lab
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 |
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Anne Prieto aprieto [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: MSBII 222 | (812)855-4642 lab: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Lab
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 |
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Aina Puce ainapuce [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 144 | (812)856-0417 lab: Social Neuroscience Lab (EEG/TMS)
Social cognition; nonverbal communication; multisensor processing; functional MRI; electroencephalography; eye tracking; transcranial magnetic stimulation |
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George Rebec rebec [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 361 | (812)855-4832 lab: Preclinical Pharmacology Laboratory
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 |
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Robert "BJ" Rydell rjrydell [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 351 | (812)855-7608 lab: Social Cognition Lab
Social Cognition; Attitude Formation, Representation, and Change; Impression Formation; Stereotype Threat |
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Dale Sengelaub sengelau [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 372 | (812)855-9149 lab: Sengelabs: Motoneuron plasticity, therapeutics, and development
Development of the nervous system; plasticity of neural structure and function |
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Steven Sherman sherman [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 358 | (812)855-8163 lab: Sherman Social Cogntion Research Lab
Social cognition; human judgment; impressions of individuals and groups; adolescent health behavior. |
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Richard Shiffrin shiffrin [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile | personal website office: PY 350 | (812)855-4972 lab: Memory and Perception Lab
Short and long term memory; attention Stages of information processing; retrieval and forgetting; mathematical computer simulation; neural network models |
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Eliot Smith esmith4 [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile | personal website office: PY 354 | (812)856-0196 lab: Socially Situated Cognition Lab
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 |
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Linda Smith smith4 [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 122 | (812)855-3991 lab: Cognitive Development Lab
Perceptual and cognitive development in early childhood; classification and categorization; interactions between perception and language |
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Olaf Sporns osporns [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile | personal website office: PY 360 | (812)855-2772 lab: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
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 |
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William Timberlake timberla [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 324 | (812)855-4042 lab: Behavioral Systems and Learning Lab
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 |
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Peter Todd pmtodd [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile | personal website office: PY 369 | (812)855-3914 lab: Adaptive Behavior and Cognition Lab |
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James Townsend jtownsen [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile | personal website office: PY 334 | (812)855-9598 lab: Mathematical Psychology Lab
Development of general mathematical approaches to human information processing in cognitive and clinical psychology including: identification of cognitive systems, configural perception, inter-modality interactions, visual and memory scanning, decision theory, attentional capacity, applications to schizophrenia and autism |
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Richard Viken viken [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 152 | (812)855-1697 lab: PY A230 | (812)855-9232
Antisocial behavior; social interaction; family process; behavior genetics; alcohol use and abuse |
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Stanley Wasserman stanwass [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile | personal website office: PY 349 | (812)856-7828 lab: PY 294
Applied statistics; social networks |
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Cara Wellman wellmanc [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile | personal website office: MSBII 202 | (812)855-4922 lab: Wellman Lab
Stress effects on corticolimbic morphology and function; transgenic models of psychopathology |
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Meredith West mewest [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile office: PY 348 | (812)855-9597 lab: Animal Behavior Farm
Development of behavior in animals and humans with a particular interest in how learning and species-typical experience affect ontogenetic and/or phylogenetic processes |
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Chen Yu chenyu [at] indiana.edu | faculty profile | personal website office: PY 346 | (812)856-0838 lab: Computational Cognition and Learning Lab
Cognitive development; language acquisition; perceptual intelligence; machine learning |
