Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
ontogeny of species-typical behavior; maturation of sensory and physiological processes; development of learning and memory
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Director of Clinical Training
**Not accepting graduate students**
Research Interests
development of children's behavior problems and competencies; family interaction processes; child temperament, social, cognitive and affective characteristics; socioeconomic variables; developmental psychopathology; parent behavioral training
James H. Rudy Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
perceptual, motor, and cognitive development; action understanding; social attention; spatial attention; real-world decision making
Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Research Interests
network science; connectome/connectomics; cognition
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
perception/action; visual event perception; optic flow; space perception; motor coordination and control; sfm and shape perception; visually guided reach-to-grasp
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
cannabinoid pharmacology; neurobiochemistry; lipidomics
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Director, Program in Neuroscience
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
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
Distinguished Professor and Provost Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
quantum cognition; 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
Professor, Psychological Brain Sciences
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023 — please contact before applying**
Research Interests
human expertise; forensics; decision making; visual perception; electrophysiology; mathematical modeling
Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
adolescence; cognition; puberty; positive development; quantitative methods
Provost Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Associate Department Chair
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
comparative cognition; episodic memory; metacognition; time perception; circadian rhythms; learning and memory; disorders of memory; Alzheimer's
Provost Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
social roles; gender; stereotyping and prejudice; motivation; STEM
Sharon Stephens Brehm Endowed Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
Developmental psychopathology, pharmacoepidemiology, behavior genetics/genetic epidemiology, dissemination and implementation
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
cellular and molecular mechanisms of learning and memory; neurobiology of behavior; Excitable membranes/ion channels/cellular neurophysiology; neurobiology of nicotine abuse and addiction; molecular bases of signal transduction; computational models of neuronal excitability; neuroimmune disorders; neurodegeneration; hallucinogens
Provost Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Research Interests
roles of executive cognitive function, attention control, working memory, decision-making, and personality in self-regulation and disorders characterized by poor self-regulation, such as substance use disorders, externalizing psychopathology, and internalizing psychopathology; development of interventions to improve decision-making and moderate the deleterious effects of stress, negative emotions, and fatigue on executive cognitive functions, such as attention control, and performance
Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
cognitive development; math cognition; learning and transfer; problem solving; experimental educational research methods
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Research Interests
electrophysiological; neuroanatomical; 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
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Director of Undergraduate Studies
**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
sensation and perception; psychophysics
Distinguished Professor and Chancellor’s Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
conceptual and perceptual learning; computational models of thought; visual cognition and pattern recognition; analogical reasoning, judgment, and decision making
Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
coping with stigma, emotion regulation, intergroup relations, social identity threat, stereotyping and prejudice
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Jack and Linda Gill Chair, Gill Center for Biomolecular Science
Research Interests
cellular and system neuroscience; wiring principles of cortical networks, GABAergic interneurons, synaptic inhibition, circuit operation in neural networks, oscillatory activities in cortical structures; hippocampus, amygdala, prefrontal cortex; neuroanatomy, electrophysiology, optogenetics
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Department Chair
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
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
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Director of Pedagogy
**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
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
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Jack and Linda Gill Chair, Gill Center for Biomolecular Science
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
mechanisms of pain; novel pain therapies
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Not accepting graduate students**
Research Interests
Intimate partner violence; interventions for divorcing or separating parents; studies of the effectiveness of family law interventions (e.g., mediation, court-affiliated parenting programs); screening for intimate partner violence in family law settings
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
stereotyping and prejudice; intergroup relations; face perception; social categorization and person construal
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Director of Graduate Studies
Research Interests
action and perception interactions during learning; development of object recognition; effects of handwriting on cognitive development, perceptual expertise, gesture processing and active learning in adults
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
visual and haptic perception; object recognition; cross-sensory integration; priming and adaptation; functional neuroimaging
W.K. Estes Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2023**
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
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Naus Family Chair in Addiction Sciences
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
signaling pathways and brain circuits involved in substance abuse, the endocannabinoid system, synaptic plasticity, super-resolution imaging/microscopy
Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Director, Imaging Research Facility
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023 — please email before applying**
Research Interests
social neuroscience; autism spectrum disorders; social perception; eye tracking; brain connectivity; functional MRI
Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
social neuroscience; social cognition & aging; healthy & pathological aging; stigma
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Jack and Linda Gill Scholar, Gill Center for Biomolecular Science
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
developmental neurobiology; the use of transgenic mouse models to study nervous system function
Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
psychotherapy for depression: outcomes, processes, and moderators; intersection of stepped care and personalized medicine for depression; history and classification of major depressive disorder; treatment of bipolar II depression
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Director, Gill Center for Biomolecular Science
Jack and Linda Gill Chair, Gill Center for Biomolecular Science
**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
development of neural circuitry; particularly in the neocortex; activity-dependent remodeling and mis-wiring in autism; dyslexia, schizophrenia, and congenital epilepsy; neuroprotective strategies
Distinguished Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Jack and Linda Gill Chair, Gill Center for Biomolecular Science
**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
regulation of CB1 cannabinoid receptor signaling; regulation of endocannabinoid production; role of endocannabinoids in synaptic plasticity; novel cannabinoid receptors
Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Associate Director, eLearning Research and Practice Lab, Pervasive Technology Institute
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
concept learning; learning strategies; behavioral science; experimental research methods in education
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Class of 1948 Herman B Wells Endowed Professor
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
self and social identity threat; stereotype threat; stereotyping and prejudice; intergroup dynamics/relations; interracial interaction and friendship; organizational lay theories; structural and psychological barriers for underrepresented groups; race and ethnicity
Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
systems neuroscience; learning and memory; circuits; high-density electrophysiology; optogenetics; neural rhythms; theta and gamma rhythms; acetylcholine; neuromodulation; neural information processing; modeling of neural circuits; computational neuroscience
Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
Cognitive Science, Categorization, Recognition Memory, Similarity Scaling, Computational Modeling
Distinguished Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Chancellor’s Professor, Cognitive Science
Adjunct Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences; Linguistics; Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine
**Not accepting graduate students**
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; multi-modal perception of speech
Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Director of Graduate Admissions
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
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
Eleanor Cox Riggs Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
social neuroscience; EEG/MEG, functional MRI; eye tracking; white matter tractography; open science; best practices
Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
** Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
social cognition; attitude formation, representation, and change; impression formation; stereotype threat
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
** Not accepting graduate students**
Research Interests
disordered eating
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
development of the nervous system; plasticity of neural structure and function; neuroanatomy, neuroendocrinology, neural injury and repair, sex differences
Distinguished and Luther Dana Waterman Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Member, National Academy of Sciences
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests
Short- and long-term memory; forgetting; attention; perception; decision making; visual search; mathematical and computer simulation modeling; the practice of science
Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Member, National Academy of Sciences
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
perceptual and cognitive development in infancy and young children; the development of visual object recognition; word learning
Distinguished Professor and Provost Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Robert H. Shaffer Chair
**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
computational and cognitive neuroscience; connectomics; network models of the human brain; brain networks across the computational models of brain dynamics; embodied cognitive science
Provost Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Director, Cognitive Science Program
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
Ruth N. Halls Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
antisocial behavior; social interaction; family process; behavior genetics; alcohol use and abuse
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Director, Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior
Research Interests
stress effects on corticolimbic morphology and function; transgenic models of psychopathology
Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**
Research Interests
serious mental illness, addiction, stress, interoception, experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical neuroscience, neuroimaging
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