Regular Faculty
![]() | Jo-Anne Bachorowski Associate Professor of Psychology | Email Website (615) 343-5915 307 Wilson Hall |
Clinical Science Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience vocal communication, including laughter, vocal expression of emotion, and indexical cues in speech |
![]() | Andre Bastos Assistant Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website |
Neuroscience |
![]() | Camilla P. Benbow Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development, Peabody College Professor of Psychology Co-Director, Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development | Email Website (615) 322-8407 201 Peabody Administration |
Developmental Science creativity and eminence, giftedness (academically talented children) |
![]() | Deon T. Benton Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Website (615) 343-2206 219B Hobbs Building |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science |
![]() | Robert Randolph Blake Centennial Professor Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Email Lab Website Website (615) 343-7010 512A Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Neural bases of human visual perception |
![]() | Jessika C. Boles Assistant Professor of the Practice | Email Lab Website 615-343-7492 Hobbs 108 |
Developmental Science Interdisciplinary |
![]() | Amy E. Booth Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Lab Website 615-875-1718 Hobbs 215A |
Developmental Science Causes and consequences of variability in early word learning and scientific thinking. |
![]() | James R. Booth Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Lab Website @DrJamesBooth Jesup 107B |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Developmental Science Development of language, reading, and math in typical and atypical populations |
![]() | Sarah Brown-Schmidt Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Website |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context language processing, conversation, memory, communication following brain injury and neurodegenerative disease |
Li Chen Lecturer in Psychology and Human Development | Email Hobbs 209A |
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![]() | Sun-Joo Cho Professor of Psychology and Human Development Vanderbilt Data Science Institute Affiliate Faculty | Email (615) 322-8409 213 A Hobbs |
Quantitative Methods Psychometrics |
![]() | Alexander Christensen Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development Data Science Institute Affiliate Faculty | Email Website (615) 343-3180 Hobbs 221 |
Quantitative Methods Interdisciplinary Using network and data science to model dynamical systems in psychology |
![]() | David Cole Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Psychology and Human Development Director of Graduate Studies | Email Website (615) 343-8712 108A Jesup |
Clinical Science Quantitative Methods |
![]() | Bruce Compas Patricia and Rodes Hart Chair of Psychology and Human Development Professor of Pediatrics Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development | Email Lab Website Website (615) 322-8306 309A Hobbs |
Clinical Science Interdisciplinary |
![]() | Jenni Dunbar Lecturer in Psychology and Human Development | Email (615) 322-0924 |
Clinical Science Stress & Coping, Negative Cognitive Style in Children of Depressed Parents |
![]() | Elisabeth Dykens Professor of Psychology and Human Development Professor of Psychiatry Professor of Pediatrics Director and Annette Schaffer Eskind Professor, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center | Email (615) 322-8945 406B MRL |
Clinical Science Developmental Science Interdisciplinary |
![]() | Lisa Fazio Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Lab Website Website 615-875-8301 Hobbs 315A |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Developmental Science |
![]() | Judy Garber Professor of Psychology and Human Developent; Professor of Psychiatry; Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development | Email Lab Website Website 615-343-8714 313B Hobbs |
Clinical Science Developmental Science Risk, prevention, and treatment of mood disorders in children and adolescents |
![]() | Isabel Gauthier David K. Wilson Chair of Psychology Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences | Email Lab Website (615) 322-1778 308A Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Categorization,expertise, object recognition |
![]() | Kirsten Haman Assistant Professor of the Practice in Psychology Assistant Co-Director of the Clinical Training Program | Email 303 Wilson Hall |
Kirsten Haman is focused on training and supervising the next generation of clinical psychologists to implement effective interventions. |
![]() | Vicki Harris Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology and Human Development Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development | Email (615) 343-1896 209B Hobbs |
Clinical Science Developmental Science |
![]() | Suzana Herculano-Houzel Associate Professor of Psychology Associate Director for Communications, Vanderbilt Brain Institute | Email Lab Website Website 615-875-9086 066 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science Neuroscience Quantitative Methods Interdisciplinary |
![]() | Justine Hoch Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Lab Website 615-343-8923 Hobbs 317B |
Developmental Science Exploratory behavior; learning; development of perception-action systems |
![]() | Kari Hoffman Associate Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website 533 WH |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience My lab studies the neural computations underlying perception, learning, and memory. We study cell assembly activity and network dynamics using high-density recording arrays, selective stimulation, and wireless recording technologies. |
![]() | Steven D. Hollon Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology Professor of Psychology and Human Development Professor of Psychiatry | Email (615) 322-3369 306 Wilson Hall |
Clinical Science Cognitive theory and therapy for depression |
![]() | Kathryn L. Humphreys Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychology and Human Development Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center; Training Faculty, Vanderbilt Brain Institute | Email Lab Website Website 615/343-0379 |
Clinical Science Developmental Science developmental psychopathology; early experience; child abuse and neglect |
![]() | Shane Hutton Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Psychology & Human Development | Email 615-875-8379 216 Hobbs |
Quantitative Methods Quantitative Methods, categorical data analysis, longitudinal data modeling and survival analysis |
![]() | Jon Kaas Distinguished Centennial Professor of Psychology Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences | Email (615) 322-6029 61 Wilson Hall |
Neuroscience Evolution and functional organization of sensory-perceptual, cognitive, and motor systems, neural plasticity |
![]() | Antonia Kaczkurkin Assistant Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website 615-343-6987 508 Wilson Hall |
Clinical Science Neuroscience Dr. Kaczkurkin’s research integrates neuroimaging, psychophysiology, and behavior to develop a comprehensive understanding of the basic mechanisms underlying anxiety and depressive disorders. |
![]() | Autumn Kujawa Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (secondary appointment) | Email Lab Website |
Clinical Science emotion, mood disorders, developmental psychopathology, psychophysiology, affective neuroscience |
![]() | Jonathan D. Lane Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Lab Website 615-875-8017 Hobbs 315b |
Developmental Science Social-cognitive development; conceptual development; theory-of-mind |
![]() | Joseph S. Lappin Research Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website Website (941) 323-5489 510 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Career-long aim: Identifying visual information and the mechanisms of its selective recognition. |
![]() | Daniel Levin Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Lab Website (615) 322-1518 108B Jesup |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context |
![]() | Chia-Chi Liao Research Assistant Professor of Psychology | Email 615-322-2874 |
Neuroscience |
![]() | Gordon Logan Centennial Professor of Psychology | Email Website (615) 322-2529 506 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience I am interested in cognitive control, including attention, automaticity and skill, strategies, and response inhibition. |
![]() | David Lubinski Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology Co-Director, Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development | Email Lab Website (615) 343-1195 316 Peabody Administration Building |
Quantitative Methods |
![]() | Alexander Maier Associate Professor of Psychology Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Email Lab Website 615-322-7466 008 Wilson Hall |
Neuroscience Visual Perception; Binocular Vision; Thalamocortical Processing; Cortical Microcircuitry; Neurophysiology |
![]() | Kimmy Marble Assistant Professor of the Practice of Psychology and Human Development | Email 615-343-2195 Hobbs 301 |
Developmental Science |
![]() | René Marois Professor Winkelried Family Chair in Neuroscience | Email Website (615) 322-1779 530 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Behavioral and neural bases of Human Attention and Legal Decision-making |
![]() | Nina Martin Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology and Human Development Director, Child Studies Master’s Program, Empirical Research Track; Faculty, Human Development Counseling Master’s Program, Department of Human and Organizational Development | Email 615-322-5849 Hobbs 211A |
Clinical Science Developmental Science Adolescent depression; Longitudinal research methods; Evidence-based practice in counseling and psychotherapy |
![]() | Ashleigh Maxcey Senior Lecturer and Research Assistant Professor | Email Lab Website Website 615-322-2874 529 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Studies a type of forgetting of visual information from memory called recognition-induced forgetting |
![]() | Richard C. McCarty Professor of Psychology | Email (615) 343-1746 322 Wilson Hall |
Neuroscience physiological and behavioral adaptions to stress and factors contributing to development of hypertension |
![]() | Rankin Williams McGugin Research Assistant Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website Website (615) 322-5522 604 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
![]() | Joe McLaughlin Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology and Human Development | ||
![]() | Timothy P. McNamara Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Social and Natural Sciences Professor & Chair, Department of Psychology | Email Lab Website (615) 322-4150 509 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Human memory & cognition; spatial memory & navigation |
![]() | Amy Needham Professor of Psychology and Human Development Member, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center | Email Lab Website (615) 322-8380 217A Hobbs Building |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science Perceptual-motor learning during early development |
![]() | Julia Noland Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Human Development | Email (615) 322-1835 319 Hobbs |
Developmental Science |
![]() | Laura R. Novick Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development Associate Professor of Psychology, College of Arts and Science | Email Lab Website (615) 343-6072 213B Hobbs |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Diagrammatic reasoning (particularly with diagrams in biology such as evolutionary trees) |
![]() | Bunmi O. Olatunji Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology Associate Professor of Psychiatry Director of Clinical Training Associate Provost for Graduate Education | Email Lab Website (615) 322-0060 302 Wilson Hall |
Clinical Science Emotion and psychopathology, cognitive-behavioral theory and therapy for anxiety disorders |
![]() | Maria Osina Lecturer in Psychology and Human Development | Email (615) 322-1553 320 Hobbs |
Developmental Science The role of cognitive, social, memory and motor development in infant language development. |
![]() | Thomas Palmeri Distinguished Professor of Psychology Director of Graduate Studies | Email Lab Website (615) 343-7900 507 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience visual cognition, categorization, perceptual expertise, computational cognitive modeling, model-based cognitive neuroscience, deep learning models |
![]() | Sohee Park Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website (615) 322-3532 525 Wilson Hall |
Clinical Science Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Psychosis-Spectrum, Self Disorders |
![]() | Georgine Pion Emeritus Research Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development | ||
![]() | Sean Polyn Associate Professor of Psychology Associate Professor of Psychiatry | Email Lab Website (615) 322-2536 504 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognitive and neural dynamics of the human memory system, neuroimaging, electrophysiology, and computational modeling |
![]() | Kristopher J. Preacher Professor Lois Autrey Betts Chair in Education & Human Development Associate Chair, Dept. of Psychology & Human Development | Email Website 615-343-1648 202A Hobbs |
Quantitative Methods |
![]() | Huixin Qi Research Associate Professor | Email (615) (615) 322-5247 062 Wilson Hall |
Neuroscience Anatomical and functional organization of somatosensory system in primates |
![]() | Jamie Reed Research Assistant Professor of Psychology | Email Website (615) 322-5245 060 Wilson Hall |
Neuroscience Research primarily centers on the somatosensory system of monkeys with and without sensory loss |
![]() | Bethany Rittle-Johnson Professor and Chair, Psychology & Human Development Anita S. and Antonio M. Gotto Chair in Child Development | Email Lab Website (615) 322-8301 102B Jesup |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Developmental Science How children learn math |
![]() | Joe Rodgers Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Emeritus | Email Hobbs 208 |
Quantitative Methods |
![]() | Amirsaman Sajad Research Assistant Professor | Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience I investigate how the brain monitors the outcome of our actions/decisions and uses this to improve our subsequent actions and decisions Arts and Science | |
![]() | Elisabeth Sandberg Senior Lecturer in Psychology | Email (615) 322--0052 528 Wilson Hall |
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![]() | Megan Saylor Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email (615) 322-5567 319b Hobbs |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science |
![]() | Leigh Scheer Principal Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Human Development Director of Undergraduate Studies | Email 615-322-5566 or 615-343-1757 107A Jesup Bldg |
Developmental Science |
![]() | David G. Schlundt Associate Professor of Psychology | Email (615) 322-7800 323 Wilson Hall |
Clinical Science Nutrition and behavior in chronic disease, health disparities |
![]() | Adriane E. Seiffert Principal Senior Lecturer and Research Assistant Professor of Psychology Director of Undergraduate Studies, A&S | Lab Website (615) 322-4595 534 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Dynamics of Perception and Cognition |
![]() | Craig A. Smith Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development | Email (615) 567-3472 219A Hobbs Building |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Study of Emotion, Stress, Coping, and Adaptation from a Cognitive Perspective |
![]() | Leslie Smith Principal Senior Lecturer in Psychology | Email (615) 343-7554 532 Wilson Hall |
Neuroscience |
![]() | Iwona Stepniewska Research Associate Professor | Email (615) 322-5263 063 Wilson Hall |
Neuroscience Anatomical and functional organization of motor and sensory systems in primates |
![]() | Sonya K. Sterba Professor of Psychology and Human Development Director of the Quantitative Methods Program, and Faculty Advisor for the Data Science Institute | Email Website (615) 343-0507 202B Hobbs |
Quantitative Methods |
![]() | Frank Tong Centennial Professor of Psychology Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Email Lab Website Website (615) 322-1780 531 Wilson |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Neural bases of human visual perception, face and object recognition, visual attention, awareness, and working memory |
![]() | Georgene Troseth Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology & Human Development; Vanderbilt Kennedy Center | Email Lab Website Jesup 101A |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science Young children |
![]() | Jennifer Trueblood Associate Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website 615-343-7554 532 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
![]() | Sophia Vinci-Booher Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email 6153437365 Hobbs 321 |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science |
![]() | Tedra Walden Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Emerita | Developmental Science Interdisciplinary Early social and emotional development and links to developmental disabilities | |
![]() | Mark Wallace Louise B. McGavock Chair of Neuroscience Professor of Psychology Professor of Hearing & Speech Sciences, Pharmacology, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences | Email Lab Website 615-936--6709 7110 MRB III |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience |
![]() | Duane Watson Professor of Psychology and Human Development Frank W. Mayborn Chair in Cognitive Science | Email Lab Website (615) 875-8083 Hobbs 215B |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context |
![]() | Ashley Watts Assistant Professor of Psychology | Clinical Science | |
![]() | Bahr Weiss Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Emeritus Visiting Foreign Professor, Vietnam National University Senior Fellow, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health | Email Lab Website 615-829-6624 |
Clinical Science Child Global Mental Health |
![]() | Eric D. Wilkey Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Website 615-421-1611 Hobbs 313A |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science |
![]() | Thilo Womelsdorf Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website Wilson 006 |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Circuit- and systems- level studies of attentional control and learning |
![]() | Geoffrey F. Woodman Professor of Psychology E. Bronson Ingram Chair of Neuroscience, Director of National Eye Institute T32 | Email Lab Website Website (615) 322-0049 502 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Attention, memory, neurophysiology of selective processing and cognitive control |
![]() | Hao Wu Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email 3-0364 Hobbs 211B |
Quantitative Methods |
![]() | Cristina Zepeda Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Lab Website Website 615-343-0387 Hobbs 317A |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science Metacognition, motivation, learning and transfer, self-regulated learning, and using educational technology to support learners |