Abrams conducts research on aspects of perception, attention, and motor control. His work addresses questions about the mental mechanisms that underlie overt movements of the eyes and limbs and covert movements of visual attention. One ongoing project examines the link between eye movements and movements ...

Barch studies cognitive and language deficits in disorders such as schizophrenia, and the neurobiological mechanisms that contribute to such deficits. Her research includes behavioral, pharmacological, and neuroimaging studies with normal and clinical populations. One line of research examines discourse-level ...

John Baugh

Download

John Baugh, Ph.D., is able to provide perspective on the historic 2008 presidential race and issues related to the first African American candidate from a major party to run for the office. Baugh, author of Beyond Ebonics: Linguistic Pride and Racial Prejudice, a significant piece of work on the Ebonics ...

Pascal Boyer

Download

Professor Boyer is an internationally recognized scholar on the study of how people and communities perceive and understand characteristics of their culture. His work centers on questions concerning the understanding of culture and its scientific investigation as it relates to the mind and the brain. ...

Braver studies the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying memory, attention, and controlled processing. His research approach combines computational modeling (using connectionist frameworks), functional neuroimaging (using fMRI and PET methods), and behavioral studies (in normal and clinical populations, ...

Brian Carpenter

Download

Carpenter's research focuses on the clinical psychology of aging, with an emphasis on family relationships in late life. Recent work explores the ways family members work together to make decisions regarding older adults. Other studies have examined whether adult children really know what their older ...

Renee Cunningham-Williams

Download

Cunningham-Williams' expertise centers on the comorbidity of mental health disorders, particularly those relating to behavioral addictions, risk taking, and antisocial behaviors.

Finger's research examines the history of neuroscience, especially the relationship between brain and behavior as perceived by scientists in earlier time periods. He is interested in the history of treatments and recovery from brain damage. He recently completed a book dealing with neuroscientists ...

Green studies choice and decision making in rats, pigeons, and people. His research on choice extends to the areas of self control (choice between smaller/sooner rewards and larger/later rewards), behavioral economics (the conjoining of experimental psychology and economic theories), and the discounting ...

Hale conducts research that focuses on developmental changes in speed of information processing across the life span and on the role of age-related differences on other aspects of cognition. In particular, she has developed one line of research that examines the role of developmental changes in processing ...

Jacoby

Jacoby conducts research that focuses on the distinction between consciously-controlled and automatic processes. Jacoby uses techniques that separate these two components of responding to forms of memory, which are relatively uninfluenced by aging, to explore neural bases of memory. The distinction ...

Kurtz researches the fundamental parameters that influence hypnosis as trait and state. His research addresses questions about the role that expectancy plays in core hypnotic phenomena. One current project examines hypnosis and time estimation in a real-simulator design. Another research program ...

Lambert

Lambert conducts research on the expression versus suppression of stereotypes. A primary goal of his research is to understand how aspects of the "situation," the perceiver's personality, as well as transitory mood states (e.g., happiness versus sadness) might lead people to either use − or avoid ...

Randy Larsen

Download

Larsen conducts research on emotion, primarily in terms of differences between people. Topics studied include mood variability, jealousy, attraction, depression, and strategies for the self-management of self-esteem and emotion. Methods of investigation have included psychophysiological techniques ...

McDaniel, an expert on human learning and memory, is co-author of Memory Fitness: A Guide for Successful Aging. Published in 2004, the book offers the lay person an overview of what scientific research suggests will happen to our memory capabilities as we age. McDaniel's most significant research ...

McDermott

McDermott is the director of the Memory and Cognition Laboratory. She investigates the mechanisms underlying memory formation and memory retrieval. Her research uses both behavioral (traditional psychological) and functional neuroimaging (specifically, fMRI) techniques. Ongoing projects include explorations ...

Roediger

Download

Roediger is an internationally recognized scholar of human memory function and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor. He served as chair of the Department of Psychology in Arts & Sciences from 1996-2004, when he was named dean of academic planning in Arts & Sciences. Roediger's ...

Stern

Stern, a professor emeritus of psychology, is a pioneer in the integrative and emergent science of psychophysiology. His main field of interest is human psychophysiology applied to human factors problems and major concern is with using the eye and eyelids as indicants of aspects of information processing ...

Storandt's research deals with aging. A major goal is understanding the distinction between normal aging and Alzheimer's disease, especially the very early stages of the disease, and how each affects cognitive function. Most of her research involves administering standard and experimental psychometric ...

James Wertsch

Download

James V. Wertsch, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences.In addition, he holds joint appointments in Education, the Russian Studies Program, and the Program in Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Psychology, all in Arts & Sciences. Heis the director of the McDonnell International ...