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Mechanisms of Behavior Faculty

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Jeffrey Alberts

Jeffrey Alberts

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
ontogeny of species-typical behavior; maturation of sensory and physiological processes; development of learning and memory

Jonathon Crystal

Jonathon Crystal

Provost Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Associate Department Chair

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
comparative cognition; episodic memory; metacognition; time perception; circadian rhythms; learning and memory; disorders of memory; Alzheimer's

Tom James

Tom James

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
visual and haptic perception; object recognition; cross-sensory integration; priming and adaptation; functional neuroimaging

Alexandra Moussa-Tooks

Alexandra Moussa-Tooks

Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2025**

  • amoussat@iu.edu
  • PY 154

Research Interests
Psychotic disorders, motor processes, sensorimotor integration, cerebellum, translational science, intervention, demographics and individual differences, risk factors, behavioral tasks, neuroimaging

Dale R. Sengelaub

Dale R. Sengelaub

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
development of the nervous system; plasticity of neural structure and function; neuroanatomy, neuroendocrinology, neural injury and repair, sex differences

Cara L. Wellman

Cara L. Wellman

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Director, Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior

**Not accepting graduate students**

Research Interests
stress effects on corticolimbic morphology and function; transgenic models of psychopathology