Psychological Sciences
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Faculty

* these faculty accept graduate students

* Jo-Anne Bachorowski (Associate Professor of Psychology, Director of Clinical Training) - vocal communication, including laughter, vocal expression of emotion, and indexical cues in speech

Camilla Benbow (Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Dean of Peabody College) - creativity and eminence, giftedness (academically talented children)

* Stephen Benning (Assistant Professor of Psychology) - psychopathy, psychophysiology of emotion

* Leonard Bickman (Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Associate Dean of Peabody College) - mental health services for children, evaluation research, applied research methods

* Randolph Blake (Centennial Professor of Psychology) - neural bases of human visual perception

Penelope Brooks (Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Human Development) - cognitive and behavioral disorders from a psychosocial perspective

* Vivien Casagrande (Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology, Psychology, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences) - visual system, developmental neuroscience

William Caul (Professor Emeritus of Psychology) - psychopharmacology, drug addiction

Keith Clayton (Professor Emeritus of Psychology) - nonlinear dynamics of human memory

* David Cole (Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Director of Graduate Studies) - developmental psychopathology and childhood depression

Christine Collins (Research Assistant Professor of Psychology) - Functional organization, evolution and plasticity of sensory and motor systems

* Bruce Compas (Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Director of Clinical Training) - development of self-regulation and coping with stress

* David Cordray (Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Professor of Public Policy) - assessment, multi-site evaluation methods, quasi-experimental methods, meta-analysis

Denise D. Davis (Assistant Professor of Psychology, Assistant Director of Clinical Training) - in private practice

* Elisabeth Dykens (Professor of Psychology and Human Development) - mental retardation

* Ford Ebner (Professor of Psychology) - developmental neuroscience, neural plasticity

* Robert Fox (Professor of Psychology) - binocular vision, perception of global motion and three dimensional space

* Jeffery Franks (Professor Emeritus of Psychology) - memory, intention, attitude

* Judy Garber (Professor of Psychology and Human Development) - developmental psychopathology, etiology and prevention of depression in children and adolescents

* Isabel Gauthier (Associate Professor of Psychology) - categorization, expertise, object recognition

* Jessica Giles (Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development) - developmental psychology, social cognition, legal psychology

* Merida Grant (Assistant Professor of Psychology) - neural basis of cognitive control and regulation of emotion in depression, neurobiology of stress

Vicki Harris (Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology and Human Development) - psychopathology

James Hogge (Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Associate Dean of Peabody College) - models and methodology for the analysis of judgment and decision making in social situations

* Steven Hollon (Professor of Psychology) - cognitive theory and therapy for depression

Kathy Hoover-Dempsey - (Professor of Psychology) - Developmental Psychology

* Jon Kaas (Distinguished Professor of Psychology) - evolution and functional organization of sensory-perceptual, cognitive, and motor systems; neural plasticity

Leslie Kirby (Senior Lecturer in Psychology) - social psychology, emotions, stress, and health psychology

Joseph S. Lappin (Professor Emeritus of Psychology) - visual perception, spatial vision

* Daniel Levin (Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development) - visual cognition, concepts and metacognition

* Gordon Logan (Centennial Professor of Psychology) - attention and performance, automaticity, stopping behavior

Haidong Lu (Research Assistant Professor) - Neural mechanisms underlying visual perception

* David Lubinski (Professor of Psychology and Human Development) - assessment of individual differences, measurement, the optimal development of talent

* René Marois (Associate Professor of Psychology) - neural basis of visual attention and perception using fMRI

Kazushi Maruya (Research Assistant Professor of Psychology) -

Richard McCarty - (Professor of Psychology, Dean of the College of Arts and Science) - physiological and behavioral adaptions to stress and factors contributing to development of hypertension

Steve McFadyen-Ketchum (Lecturer in Psychology and Human Development) - identification and treatment of preschoolers to prevent adhd

* Timothy McNamara (Professor of Psychology, Associate Provost for Faculty) - mechanisms of memory retrieval, spatial memory, text comprehension

Julia Noland (Research Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development) - cognitive control in young alcohol and drug exposed children

* Laura Novick (Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development) - problem solving, reasoning, thinking with diagrams, expertise

Richard Odom (Professor Emeritus of Psychology) - conceptual and perceptual development

* Bunmi Olatunji (Assistant Professor of Psychology) - emotion and psychopathology, cognitive-behavioral theory and therapy for anxiety disorders

* Thomas Palmeri (Associate Professor of Psychology, Director of Graduate Studies) - categorization and concepts, computational modeling

* Sohee Park (Professor of Psychology) - cognitive and neurobiological bases of major psychiatric disorders

Georgine Pion (Research Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development) - career development and human resource policy

Sean Polyn (Assistant Professor of Psycholgy) - cognitive and neural dynamics of the human memory system, neuroimaging, electrophysiology, and computational modeling

Huixin Qi (Research Assistant Professor of Psychology) - anatomical and functional organization of somatosensory system in primates

* John Rieser (Professor of Psychology and Human Development) - perception, representation, and action together in a coordinated system

* Bethany Rittle-Johnson (Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development) - learning mechanisms that underlie knowledge development, specifically, how children learn problem solving strategies and key concepts in academic domains

* Anna W. Roe (Associate Professor of Psychology) - neural circuity underlying visual and tactile perception

* Norbert Ross (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Assistant Professor of Psychology) - concepts and categories, naive theories, culture and cognition

* Andrew Rossi (Assistant Professor of Psychology) - cortical representation of visual information, attention

* Howard Sandler (Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Associate Provost for Special Projects) - philosophy of science and research methods, application of current thinking in philosophy to the development of systematic methods of inquiry for psychology

* Megan Saylor (Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development) - development of intentional understanding

* Jeffrey Schall (E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Neuroscience) - neuorophysiological, anatomical, and computational studies of visual attention, executive control, and decision making

* David Schlundt (Associate Professor of Psychology) - nutrition and behavior in chronic disease, health disparities

* Adriane Seiffert (Assistant Professor of Psychology) - motion perception and attentional tracking

* Craig Smith (Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Director of Undergraduate Studies) - cognition, emotion, and adaptation

Leslie Smith (Senior Lecturer in Psychology) - neuroscience

* William Smith (Professor of Psychology) - social conflict, decision making, negotiation, and social comparison

* James Steiger (Professor of Psychology and Human Development) - factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and tests on correlations; evaluation of statistical models; confidence interval estimation and effect size estimation; quantitative models of human judgment

Iwona Stepniewska (Research Assistant Professor of Psychology) - Anatomical and functional organization of motor and sensory systems in primates

Susanne J. Sterbing-D'Angelo (Research Assistant Professor of Psychology) - sound localization, attention

* Wendy Stone (Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Pyschology and Human Development) - autism: early identification and intervention

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Andrew Tomarken (Associate Professor of Psychology, Chair of  the Department of Psychology) - psychobiology of depression and quantitative methods

* Frank Tong (Associate  Professor of Psychology) - neural bases of human visual perception, face and object recognition, visual attention and awareness

* Georgene Troseth (Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development) - children's symbolic development

Patti van Eys (Assistant Professor of the Practice of Psychology) - psychotherapy, child sexual abuse, ADHD

Leigh Wadsworth (Lecturer in Psychology and Human Development)

* Tedra Walden (Professor Psychology and Human Development) - early social and emotional development of young children

* Lynn Walker (Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Psychology and Human Development) - health psychology, biopsychosocial processes in pain

* Bahr Weiss (Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development) - child psychopathology, cross-cultural influences on the development of psychopathology, intervention for comorbid internalizing and externalizing problems

Geoffrey Woodman
(Assistant Professor of Psychology) - attention, memory, neurophysiology of selective processing

* David Zald (Director of Undergraduate Studies, Assistant Professor of Psychology) - neuropsychology and neuroimaging, functions of the orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala and their relationship to psychiatric conditions

Jane Zbrodoff (Senior Lecturer in Psychology) - mental arithmetic; comprehension of intentional and causal events


 

Affiliated Faculty

Adam Anderson (Biomedical Engineering)

Colin Armstrong (Clinical Supervisor)

Linda Ashford (Clinical Supervisor)

Daniel Ashmead (Bill Wilkerson Center)

A.B. Bonds
(Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Bobby Bodenheimer (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Kimberly Brown (Clinical Supervisor)

Laurel Brown (Clinical Supervisor)

Ken Catania (Biological Sciences) 

Dale Farran (Teaching and Learning)

Pamela Fishel-Ingram (Clinical Supervisor)

Douglas Fisher (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Erin Fowler (Clinical Supervisor)

John Gore (Vanderbilt University Institute for Imaging Science)

Troy Hackett (Bill Wilkerson Center)

Kirsten Haman (Clinical Supervisor)

Daniel Kearns
(Clinical Supervisor)

Nancy Kirby (Clinical Supervisor)

Tarah Kuhn (Clinical Supervisor)

Mary Magestro (Clinical Supervisor)

Kimberly Marshman (Clinical Supervisor)

Janice Martin (Clinical Supervisor)

Jonathan May (Clinical Supervisor)

Peter Melzer
(Neuroscience)

Arie Nettles (Clinical Supervisor)

Frances Niarhos (Clinical Supervisor)

Michele Panucci (Clinical Supervisor)

Alan Peters (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Daniel Polley (Bill Wilkerson Center)

Howard Roback (Clinical Supervisor)

Dan Rock (Clinical Supervisor)

Kreig Roof (Clinical Supervisor)
 

Larry Seeman (Clinical Supervisor)  

Dorothy Tucker (Clinical Supervisor) 

Deb Van Slyke (Clinical Supervisor)

Jim Walker (Clinical Supervisor)

Mark Wallace (Bill Wilkerson Center)

Ken Wallston (Nursing)

David Weatherford (Clinical Supervisor)

 
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