Undergraduate Programs in Psychology, College of Arts and Science

Department of Psychology Faculty

Jo-Anne Bachorowski - Director of Clinical Training - vocal communication, including laughter, vocal expression of emotion, and indexical cues in speech

Stephen Benning - psychopathy, psychophysiology of emotion

Randolph Blake - neural bases of human visual perception

Vivien A. Casagrande - Cell and Developmental Biology, Psychology and Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences - visual system, developmental neuroscience

William F. Caul - Emeritus - psychopharmacology, drug addiction

Keith N. Clayton - Emeritus - nonlinear dynamics of human memory

Denise D. Davis - Assistant Director of Clinical Training - in private practice

Ford F. Ebner - developmental neuroscience, neural plasticity

Robert Fox - binocular vision, perception of global motion and three dimensional space

Jeffery Franks - Director of Undergraduate Studies - memory, intention, attitude

Judy Garber - Department of Psychology and Human Development - developmental psychopathology

Isabel Gauthier - categorization, expertise, object recognition

Merida Grant - neural basis of cognitive control and regulation of emotion in depression, neurobiology of stress

Steven D. Hollon - cognitive theory and therapy for depression

Jon H. Kaas - evolution and functional organization of sensory-perceptual, cognitive, and motor systems; neural plasticity

Joseph Lappin - Emeritus - visual perception, spatial vision

Daniel Levin - Department of Psychology and Human Development - visual cognition, concepts and metacognition

Gordon Logan - attention and performance, automaticity, stopping behavior

René Marois - neural basis of visual attention and perception using fMRI

Richard McCarty - Dean of Arts and Science - physiological and behavioral adaptions to stress and factors contributing to development of hypertension

Timothy McNamara - mechanisms of memory retrieval, spatial memory, text comprehension

David Noelle - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence

Laura Novick - Department of Psychology and Human Development - problem solving, reasoning, thinking with diagrams, expertise

Richard Odom - Emeritus - conceptual and perceptual development

Bunmi Olatunji - emotion and psychopathology, cognitive-behavioral theory and therapy for anxiety disorders

Thomas Palmeri - Director of Graduate Studies - categorization and concepts, computational modeling

Sohee Park - cognitive and neurobiological bases of major psychiatric disorders

Anna W. Roe - neural circuity underlying visual perception

Norbert Ross - Department of Anthropology - concepts and categories, naive theories, culture and cognition

Andrew Rossi - cortical representation of visual information, attention

Jeffrey D. Schall - neuorophysiological, anatomical, and computational studies of visual attention, executive control, and decision making

David G. Schlundt - nutrition and behavior in diabetes and health promotion

Adriane Seiffert - motion perception and attentional tracking

Leslie Smith - neuroscience

William Smith - social conflict, decision making, negotiation, and social comparison

Hans H. Strupp - Distinguished Professor Emeritus - psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, process and outcome

Andrew J. Tomarken - Department Chair - psychobiology of depression and quantitative methods

Frank Tong  - neural bases of human visual perception, face and object recognition, visual attention and awareness

Geoffrey Woodman - attention, memory, neurophysiology of selective processing

David Zald - neuropsychology and neuroimaging, functions of the orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala and their relationship to psychiatric conditions

Jane Zbrodoff - mental arithmetic; comprehension of intentional and causal events


Affiliated Psychology Faculty

Linda Ashford  Pediatrics

Daniel Ashmead  Bill Wilkerson Center - space perception and attention in infants and individuals with visual or hearing impairments

Robert Barrett  VA Medical Center

Camilla Benbow  Department of Psychology and Human Development - creativity and eminence, giftedness (academically talented children)

Leonard Bickman  Department of Psychology and Human Development - mental health services research,  program evaluation

A.B. Bonds  Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - computational neuroscience

Kimberly Brown Psychiatry - Director, Forensic Evaluation Team and interests in criminal forensic psychology and risk assessment of future violence

Laurel Brown  Psychiatry - neuroendocrinoloy of stress and depression; effects on memory functioning

Ken Catania  Biology - neurobiology and behavior of mammals

Thomas Catron   Psychiatry

David Cole  Department of Psychology and Human Development - developmental psychopathology, origins of depression in young people, structural equation modeling

Bruce Compas  Department of Psychology and Human Development - process of coping and self-regulation in response to stress and adversity in children, adolescents and adults

David Cordray  Department of Psychology and Human Development - assessment, multi-site evaluation methods, quasi-experimental methods, meta-analysis

Elizabeth Dykens  Department of Psychology and Human Development - mental retardation

Pamela T. Fishel-Ingram  Psychiatry - family therapy, interpersonal/CBT therapy, ADHD in adulthood, adaptation to chronic illness

Jessica Giles   Department of Psychology and Human Development - developmental psychology, social cognition, legal psychology

Troy Hackett  Bill Wilkerson Center - neuroscience of audition

Vicki Harris  Department of Psychology and Human Development - design and evaluation of evidence-based mental health programs for youth; assessment of children's emotions

James Hogge  Department of Psychology and Human Development - judgement and decision making; quantitative methods

Kathleen Hoover-Dempsey   Department of Psychology and Human Development - role and influence of parents in children's and adolescents' educational and development outcomes

David Lubinski  Department of Psychology and Human Development - psychological measurement and assessing individual differences in human behavior

Steve McFadyen-Ketchum  Department of Psychology and Human Development - Identification and treatment of preschoolers to prevent adhd

Peter Melzer  Neuroscience - plasticity of visuo-tactile cortical maps

Julia Noland   Department of Psychology and Human Development - prenatal substance exposure and development of cognitive control

R. Alan Peters  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - cognitive robotics, image processing & robot learning and problem solving

Georgine Pion  Department of Psychology and Human Development - career development and human resource policy

John Rieser  Department of Psychology and Human Development - perception, representation, and action together in a coordinated system

Bethany Rittle-Johnson  Department of Psychology and Human Development - how children learn problem solving strategies and key concepts in academic domains

Howard Roback  Psychiatry - adverse therapy outcomes, confidentiality in clinical groups

Howard Sandler  Department of Psychology and Human Development - philosophy of science and research methods

Megan Saylor  Department of Psychology and Human Development - development of intentional understanding

Craig A. Smith  Department of Psychology and Human Development - cognition, emotion, and adaptation

James Steiger  Department of Psychology and Human Development - quantitative methods, correlational analysis

Wendy Stone  Department of Psychology and Human Development - early identificaiton and intervention for autism

Georgene Troseth  Department of Psychology and Human Development children's symbolic development

Patti van Eys  Department of Psychology and Human Development - psychotherapy, child sexual abuse, ADHD

Tedra Walden  Department of Psychology and Human Development - early social and emotional development of young children

James Walker  Pediatrics - health psychology, biopsychosocial processes in pain

Lynn Walker  Department of Psychology and Human Development - behavioral medicine; stress and coping

Ken Wallston  Nursing - social and health psychology/behavioral medicine

Bahr Weiss  Department of Psychology and Human Development - psychotherapy, culture, Southeast Asian populations



For more information, please contact Jennifer L. Lass.
Vanderbilt University 2006