Faculty Directory
Interests:- Personality theory
- Psi phenomena
- Sexual orientation
- Beliefs and attitudes
Interests:- Social construction of gender and sexuality
- Clinical psychology and psychopathology
Interests:- Language evolution, acquisition and processing
- Statistical learning
- Neural network models of language and statistical learning
- ERP measures of statistical learning and language
- Genetics of language
- Cognitive Science/Neuroscience
Interests:- Active sensation and the construction of sensory representations
- Olfactory processing, generalization and perception, learning and memory
- Computational and systems neurophysiology
- Mouse behavioral phenotyping
- Neural circuit structure and function
Interests:- Perception of cinema and pictures
- Art and psychology
- Perception of motion, depth, and layout
- Event perception
- Structural and functional analyses of perceptual stimuli
Interests:- Behavioral statistics
- Mathematical models of brain evolution
Interests:- Neural basis of female bird song discrimination
- Interplay between the hippocampus and other brain areas in spatial memory
- Behavior and brain evolution
Interests:- Accuracy and illusion in self- and social judgment
- Motivated reasoning and self-deception
- Accuracy and error in eyewitness testimony
- Behavior in economic games
Interests:- Computational theories and models of cognition
- Visual object and scene processing
- Language acquisition and processing
Interests:- Automaticity
- Social cognition
- Automatic evaluation
- Implicit mechanisms of goal pursuit
- The role of affect in judgment and decision-making
- Implicit ideology
Interests:- Theories and models of sensory coding and visual processing
- Visual perception
- Relations between the structure of the natural environment andthe representation of that environment by sensory systems
Interests:- Structure and function of the vertebrate nervous system, particularly the visual system and the cerebral cortex
Interests:- Everyday judgment and decision making
- Critical thinking and belief
- Egocentrism
- Optimism, pessimism, satisfaction, and regret
- Behavioral economics
Interests:- Social learning, with a focus on the development of speech and language
- Prelinguistic vocal development
- Early word learning
- Psychobiology of parental behavior
- Comparative approaches to the development and evolution of communication
Interests:- Human olfaction
- Human retronasal olfaction
- Effects of aging on human smell and taste
Interests:- Influence of affect on social interaction and thought processes
- Social cognitive neuroscience
- Consumer decision making
- Functioning in work or organizational settings
Interests:- Animal behavior and mechanisms of social behavior
- Olfactory communication, especially in mammals
- Social recognition and memory
- Sense of smell and the neural and hormonal mechanisms of behavior
Interests:- Computer music and computer modeling of music
- Human perception and cognition
- Cognitive processes in music perception and memory
- Application of mathematical models to psychological data
Interests:- Effects of nutrition on behavior
- Control of food intake and body weight
- Obesity
- Nutrition and health
Interests:- Sleep and sleep deprivation
- Communication, with particular emphasis on the development, production and evaluation of media-based educational programs designed to promote cognitive, attitudinal and behavioral change
Interests:- Moral judgment
- Moral intuitions
- Influence of emotional states on thinking and deciding
- Influence of emotional states on thinking and deciding
Interests:- Biopsychology of brain state change in sleep
- Physiology of sensory, motor, and cognitive experience in dreams
Interests:- Experimental social psychology, especially causal attribution and interpersonal influence
- Evolutionary theory and social behavior
Interests:- Neuroendocrine mechanisms of animal social behavior
- Sexual differentiation of behavior
- Mate choice and social relationships in pair-bonding birds
Interests:- The uses of narrative in clinical assessment
- Adolescent psychopathology
- Lifespan development
- Connections between the creative and therapeutic processes
- Psychodynamic approaches to literary texts
Interests:- Neural mediation of learning and memory
- Spatial navigation
- Instrumental learning
- Attention
Interests:- Determining the nature and underlying neural basis of developmental cognitive disorders
- Prenatal cocaine exposure
- Early lead exposure
- Transgenic models of developmental disorders
Interests:- Social cognition
- Attachment processes
- Self-regulation
- Unconscious cognition
