Psychological Sciences
PRIMARY FACULTY
AFFILIATED FACULTY
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Faculty
Jo-Anne Bachorowski (Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology) - vocal communication, including laughter, vocal expression of emotion, and indexical cues in speech

Randolph Blake - neural bases of human visual perception

Thomas Carr - skilled performance

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

Jeffery Franks (Emeritus) - memory, intention, attitude

Isabel Gauthier - categorization, expertise, object recognition

Jessica Giles - developmental psychology, social cognition, legal psychology

Daniel Levin - visual cognition, concepts and metacognition

Gordon Logan - attention and performance, automaticity, stopping behavior

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

Kazushi Maruya (Research Assistant Professor of Psychology) -

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

Laura Novick - problem solving, reasoning, thinking with diagrams, expertise

Richard Odom - conceptual and perceptual development

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

Sean Polyn - cognitive and neural dynamics of the human memory system, neuroimaging, electrophysiology, and computational modeling

John Rieser - perception, representation, and action together in a coordinated system

Bethany Rittle-Johnson - learning mechanisms that underlie knowledge development, specifically, how children learn problem solving strategies and key concepts in academic domains

Norbert Ross - concepts and categories, naive theories, culture and cognition

Howard Sandler (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 - development of intentional understanding

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

Adriane Seiffert - motion perception and attentional tracking

Craig Smith - cognition, emotion, and adaptation

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

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

Georgene Troseth - children's symbolic development

Geoffrey Woodman - attention, memory, neurophysiology of selective processing

David Zald - (Director of Undergraduate Studies) - 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 Faculty


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

Bobby Bodenheimer (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) - computer graphics

Douglas Fisher
(Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) - machine learning

John Gore
(Vanderbilt University Institute for Imaging Science) - magnetic resonance imaging

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

Alan Peters (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) - vision

 
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