 | George Abitante Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: David Cole Clinical Science Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics Adolescent Depression & Affective Health | |
 | Alexandra Adamis Doctoral Candidate | Email Lab Website Wilson Hall 312 |
Faculty Advisor: Bunmi Olatunji Clinical Science Attentional bias and control, perseverative thinking, ecological momentary assessment, anxiety |
| Sajad AhmadiNabi Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Thilo Womelsdorf Neuroscience | ||
 | Ayman Aljishi Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Kari Hoffman Neuroscience | |
| Adam Anderson Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences Director, Undergraduate Studies, Biomedical Engineering | Lab Website |
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 | Ashley Anil | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science Pediatric Psychology, neurocognitive and psychosocial functioning, risk and resilience processes, social ecology |
 | Camille Archer Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Wilson Hall 604 |
Faculty Advisor: Antonia Kaczkurkin Clinical Science Risk factors for psychopathology, such as early adversity, including familial and environmental factors, that influence the course of internalizing symptoms in youth. |
| Daniel Ashmead Professor of Hearing and Speech Sciences | Lab Website |
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 | Tiffany Auer Program Specialist | Email 301 Wilson Hall |
ProcurementExpense Reports (Reimbursements) Travel Accommodations Undergraduate Major/Minor Declarations Facilities Arts and Science |
 | Emilee Ayers Research Analyst Schlundt Lab | Arts and Science | |
 | 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 |
| Giwon Bahg Postdoctoral Scholar | Faculty Advisor: Thomas Palmeri | ||
| Mirelle Baptista Vet Tech WHAF | Arts and Science | ||
| Carrie Barlow Research Assistant | |||
 | Marcia Barnes Professor of Special Education | Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science Research Areas: cognitive processes and learning difficulties and disabilities; reading comprehension; early mathematics, inferential comprehension assessment and intervention | |
| Anushka Barthwal | Faculty Advisor: Lisa Fazio | ||
 | Andre Bastos Assistant Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website |
Neuroscience |
| Mary Baumann | |||
 | Tatiana Baxter Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Website 634 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Sohee Park Clinical Science Studying sense of bodily self across the schizophrenia spectrum with a special interest in cross-cultural differences. |
 | Rebecca Beaton | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Deon Benton Developmental Science |
| Lauren Beem Research Coordinator Term | Email +1 (615) 322-8299 |
Peabody | |
| Anne-Charlotte Belloeil graduate student | Email Lab Website 757-803-1503 Hobbs 212 |
Faculty Advisor: Kristopher Preacher Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics optimal design; temporal design; multilevel SEM; within-subjects mediation | |
 | 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) |
 | Margaret Benningfield Medical Director, Vanderbilt School Based Mental Health Services Assistant Professor of Psychiatry | Email Lab Website |
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 | Deon T. Benton Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Website (615) 343-2206 219B Hobbs Building |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Developmental Science |
 | Leonard Bickman Betts Chair and Professor of Psychology, Peabody College, Emeritus Peabody College Professor of Psychiatry, VUMC Member, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development | Clinical Science Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics mental health services for children, evaluation research, applied research methods | |
 | Randolph Blake Centennial Professor of Psychology Emeritus Research Professor of Psychology Member, Vanderbilt Brain Institute Member, Kennedy Center for Research in Human Development Member, Vanderbilt Vision Research Center | Email Lab Website (615) 343-7010 511 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neural bases of human visual perception |
 | Abigail Blum Doctoral Candidate | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Kathryn Humphreys Clinical Science Parenting and the early caregiving environment |
 | Bobby Bodenheimer Associate Professor of Computer Science Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Director, Undergraduate Studies, Computer Science | Lab Website |
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 | Jessika C. Boles Assistant Professor of the Practice | Email Lab Website 615-343-7492 Hobbs 108 |
Developmental Science Interdisciplinary |
 | Kemberlee Bonnet Senior Research Manager Qualitative Research Core Schlundt Lab | Email (615) 322-3207 |
Qualitative Research & Health Psychology Arts and Science |
 | 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 related cognitive processes in typical and atypical populations |
 | Kaiya Brand Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Jonathan Schaefer Clinical Science I study the overlap of substance use disorders and mental illness, and how socioeconomic status plays a role in those outcomes. | |
| Elizabeth Brandon Research Program Coordinator Wallace Lab | |||
| Penelope Brooks Professor of Psychology & Human Development, Emerita | Email 615-322-8141 |
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 | Sarah Brown-Schmidt Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Website |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Neuroscience language processing, conversation, memory, communication following brain injury and neurodegenerative disease |
 | Devin Burns Senior Lecturer in Psychology | Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics | |
 | David Calkins Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Denis O'Day Professor & Vice Chair and Director for Research Vice President for Research, VUMC Director, Vanderbilt Vision Research Center | Email Lab Website Website (615) 343-7620 Vanderbilt University Medical Center AA7103D MCN/VUIIS 1161 21st Avenue South |
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 | Steve Camarata Professor, Hearing and Speech Sciences | Email Lab Website |
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 | Carissa Cascio Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences | Email Lab Website Website (615) 936-3598 2254 Village at Vanderbilt |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | Bianca Castellon Administrative Manager Financial Unit Manager | Email (615) 322-0070 301E Wilson Hall |
Post-Doctoral AffairsHuman Resources Email distribution lists FMLA Cash Advance and Gift Card Request forms Arts and Science |
| Ken Catania Associate Professor of Biological Sciences | Lab Website |
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| William F. Caul Professor of Psychology, Emeritus | Email (615) 322-6019 |
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| Li Chen Lecturer in Psychology and Human Development | Email Hobbs 209A |
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 | Limin Chen Research Assistant Professor of Psychology | Email Medical Center North 1161 21st Avenue South, CCC-1118 |
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| Yulan Chen | Faculty Advisor: Antonia Kaczkurkin Clinical Science | ||
 | Sun-Joo Cho Professor of Psychology and Human Development Vanderbilt Data Science Institute Affiliate Faculty; LIVE Learning Innovation Incubator Affiliate Faculty | Email (615) 322-8409 213 A Hobbs |
Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics Psychometrics |
| Jeongwon Choi | Email Hobbs 210 |
Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics | |
 | Alexander Christensen Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development Data Science Institute Teaching Faculty | Email Website (615) 343-3180 Hobbs 213B |
Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics Using network and data science to model dynamical systems in psychology |
 | Abagail Ciriegio | Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science | |
| Keith N. Clayton Professor of Psychology Emeritus | Email Lab Website (615) 322-0060 |
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 | David Coggan Postdoctoral scholar | Faculty Advisor: Frank Tong I study regions of the brain involved in vision through a range of neuroimaging techniques | |
 | 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 & Data Analytics |
| Victoria Cole Administrative Operations Coordinator | Email 615-343-4966 102A Jesup |
Peabody | |
 | 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 |
 | Christos Constantinidis Professor | Email Lab Website 5801 Stevenson Center |
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 | Blythe Corbett Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry Associate Professor, Department of Psychology Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center | Email Lab Website 615.936.0280 |
Neuropsychology, autism, stress, social interaction, and neurodevelopmental disorders |
 | David Cordray Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Emeritus | Email (615) 343-2699 211A Hobbs |
Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics |
 | Scott Crossley Professor of Psychology and Human Development Faculty Affiliate in the Data Science Institute | Cognition in Context Using data science and artificial intelligence to explore cognition, with an emphasis on natural language processing | |
 | Savannah Crutchfield Administrative Officer | Email (615) 322-6254 301D Wilson Hall |
Day-to-day operationsStaff Supervision Oversees departmental budgets and expenditures Arts and Science |
 | Laurie Cutting Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor, Department of Special Education Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Professor of Psychology, College of Arts and Science, Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Professor of Radiology & Radiological Sciences | Email Lab Website (615) 875-1054 416C One Magnolia Circle |
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 | Seema Dhungana Research Assistant Womelsdorf Lab | Arts and Science | |
 | Evgeniia Diachek Doctoral Student | Email Hobbs 302 |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Representation of linguistic knowledge in the mind and brain, language and other high-level cognitive functions |
| Doug Kuntz System Administrator | Email 522 Wilson Hall |
Arts and Science | |
 | Ashli-Ann Douglas Post Doctoral Scholar | Email Lab Website Hobbs 201 |
Developmental Science |
| Josie Douglas-Brown | |||
 | Melissa Duff Associate Professor and Associate Director of the PhD Program, Hearing and Speech Sciences | ||
 | Jenni Dunbar Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Human Development | Email (615)322-0924 |
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 | Erin Duran Program Coordinator | Email (615) 322-0080 301B Wilson Hall |
Graduate Student Affairs:Payroll questions Award processing Support update Course registration Program specifics Degree requirements Form processing Arts and Science |
 | Kelley Durkin Research Assistant Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning | ||
 | 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 |
 | Ford F. Ebner Professor of Psychology Emeritus Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology | Email (615) 343-0239 501 Wilson Hall |
Developmental neuroscience, neural plasticity |
| Maria (Mia) Elbon Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Suzana Herculano Neuroscience | ||
| Kaitlynn Ellis Research Assistant Kaczkurkin Lab | Arts and Science | ||
 | Lisa Fazio Director of Graduate Studies Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Lab Website Website 615-875-8301 Jesup 108A |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Developmental Science |
| Pamela Fishel-Ingram Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Assistant Professor of Psychology Director of Psychological Services for Vanderbilt’s Center for Integrative Health | Lab Website |
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| Douglas Fisher Associate Professor of Computer Science Associate Professor of Computer Engineering | Lab Website |
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 | Jeffery J. Franks Professor of Psychology, Emeritus | Email (615) 322-0059 533 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | Douglas Fuchs Professor of Special Education and Nicholas Hobbs Chair of Special Education and Human Development and Professor Pediatrics in the Vanderbilt University Medical School, Department of Special Education | ||
 | Lynn Fuchs Dunn Family Chair in Psychoeducational Assessment, Department of Special Education | ||
| Jennifer Fuller Research Coordinator, Garber Lab | Email (615) 322--8421 Hobbs 303 |
Clinical Science Peabody | |
| Kaitlyn Gabhart Assistant Lab Manager Bastos Lab | |||
 | Judy Garber, Ph.D. Professor, Psychology and Human Development, Emerita Research Professor, Psychology and Human Development; Professor of Psychiatry; Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development | Email 629-270-7048 313B Hobbs |
Clinical Science Developmental Science Neuroscience developmental psychopathology; prevention science; depression and anxiety in youth |
 | Bethany Gardner | Email Website |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience psycholinguistics, pragmatics |
| Julia Garon-Bissonnette | Faculty Advisor: Kathryn Humphreys | ||
 | Isabel Gauthier David K. Wilson Chair of Psychology Vice Chair Department of Psychology Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences | Email Lab Website Website 308A Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Individual differences in high-level vision, expertise, object recognition |
 | Reyna Gordon Associate Professor of Otolaryngology (SOM) Director Music Cognition Lab Investigator and Training Faculty Vanderbilt Genetics Institute | Email Lab Website MCE Room 10267 |
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| John Gore Hertha Ramsey Cress University Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Physics Director, Institute of Imaging Science Chancellor | Lab Website |
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| Jordan Gunn Doctoral Candidate | Faculty Advisor: Sean Polyn Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
 | Troy Hackett Professor of Hearing and Speech Sciences Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology | Website |
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 | 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 Associate Professor of the Practice of Psychology and Human Development | Email (615)343-1896 |
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 | Stephan Heckers Chair of the Department of Psychiatry William P. and Henry B. Test Chair in Schizophrenia Research Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Radiology and Radiological Sciences | Email Website 615-322-2665 (office) 1601 23rd Avenue South, Room 3060 Nashville, TN 37212 |
We are interested in the classification of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and psychotic bipolar disorder. |
 | Suzana Herculano-Houzel Associate Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website Website 615-875-9086 066 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science Neuroscience Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics Interdisciplinary What are different brains made of? What is the extent of brain diversity, what are the rules and constraints, how does that happen in evolution, and what difference does it make? |
 | 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. |
 | James Hogge Peabody College, Emeritus | Email (615) 322-8501 204 Peabody Administration |
Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics |
 | 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 Neuroscience Cognitive theory and therapy for depression |
| Langdon Holmes | Lab Website Website |
Learning Analytics, Second Language Acquisition, Transformers | |
 | Kathleen Hoover-Dempsey Professor of Psychology & Human Development, Emerita | Email (615) 322-8141 |
Developmental Science |
| Skyler Hughes Graduate Student | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science | |
 | Kathryn L. Humphreys Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology and Human Development Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center; Training Faculty, Vanderbilt Brain Institute | Email Lab Website Website |
Clinical Science Developmental Science Neuroscience 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 & Data Analytics Quantitative Methods, categorical data analysis, longitudinal data modeling and survival analysis |
| Isabella Jackson | Faculty Advisor: Ashley Watts Clinical Science | ||
| Ally Jacobs Education Coordinator | Email 615-343-4963 |
Peabody | |
 | Angela L. Jefferson, PhD Director, Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer Professor of Neurology, Psychology, & Psychiatry | Email Lab Website Website 615-322-8676 |
cardiovascular and cerebrovascular mechanisms affecting neuropsychological functioning, including mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer |
 | Ikhwan Jeon Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Frank Tong Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | |
 | Jinhyeok Jeong Doctoral Candidate | Email Lab Website Website 517 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Palmeri Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | 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 S Family Dean Fellow | 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 Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Vanderbilt Brain Institute Training Faculty; Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Member | Email Lab Website |
Clinical Science Interdisciplinary mental health, emotion, mood disorders, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, developmental psychopathology, psychophysiology, affective neuroscience |
 | Jonathan D. Lane Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Lab Website 615-875-8017 Hobbs 315b |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science Social-cognitive development; conceptual development; theory-of-mind; intergroup relations |
 | Joseph S. Lappin Research Professor of Psychology Emeritus Professor | Email Lab Website (941) 323-5489 510 Wilson Hall |
Career-long aim: Identifying visual information and the mechanisms of its selective recognition. |
 | Julia Lebovitz Graduate Student | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Sohee Park Clinical Science Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder |
 | Miriam Lense Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Psychology and Psychology & Human Development Fellow, Curb Center for Arts, Enterprise, and Public Policy Member Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Director, Music Cognition Lab | Email 615-343-0862 10420B Medical Center East, South Tower |
Social communication and interaction in autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders; music cognition; multi-method approaches including EEG, eye-tracking, acoustics, and behavior |
| Mia Letterie | |||
 | Daniel Levin Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Lab Website (615) 322-1518 108B Jesup |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context |
| Shang Li | |||
| Shucheng Li | Faculty Advisor: Thomas Palmeri Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
| Yunzhen (Amy) Liang Graduate Student | Email 214 Hobbs |
Faculty Advisor: Sonya Sterba Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics | |
 | Chia-Chi Liao Research Assistant Professor of Psychology | Email 615-322-2874 |
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| Simon Lilburn Postdoctoral Scholar | Faculty Advisor: Thomas Palmeri | ||
| Tairan Liu | Faculty Advisor: Deon Benton Developmental Science The role of statistical learning in language learning and its link to numerical abilities. | ||
 | 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. |
| Yinru Long Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Hobbs 307a |
Faculty Advisor: Autumn Kujawa Clinical Science Risk and resilience factors of depression and anxiety disorders among sexual minority adolescents; interpersonal stress and social support; identity-based stress model | |
 | Ashley Lowther Administrative Specialist | Email 301 Wilson Hall |
Department Newsletter, Events, Keys, Seminar/Lecture Fliers, All Faculty Appointments/Reappointments Arts and Science |
 | 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 & Data Analytics |
| Andrew Lynn | |||
 | 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 |
| Rachel Marlowe | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Autumn Kujawa Clinical Science Emotion Regulation, Internalizing Psychopathology, Multi-Method Assessment | |
 | René Marois Director of Graduate Studies 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 | Email (615)322-5849 |
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| Seth Marx Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Geoffrey Woodman Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
| Maya Matsumoto | |||
 | Ashleigh Maxcey Senior Lecturer and Research Assistant Professor | Email Lab Website Website 615-322-2874 529 Wilson Hall |
Studies a type of forgetting of visual information from memory called recognition-induced forgetting |
| Lindiwe Mayinja | |||
 | Andrew McAvan Graduate Student | Email Wilson Hall 415C |
Faculty Advisor: Timothy McNamara Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Human spatial navigation and decision making in non-Euclidean VR spaces. |
 | Richard C. McCarty Professor of Psychology | Email (615) 343-1746 322 Wilson Hall |
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 |
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 | Joe McLaughlin Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology and Human Development | ||
 | Timothy P. McNamara Searcy Family Dean of the College of Arts and Science Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website (615) 322-4150 509 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Human memory & cognition; spatial memory & navigation |
 | Krista Mehari Assistant Professor | Email 615-343-4985 Hobbs 319b |
Clinical Science Working with communities to prevent youth violence, including gun injuries, and to promote positive youth development. |
| Chris Metzger Business Manager | Email 615-322-8440 101B Jesup |
Peabody | |
 | Ankita Mohan Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Jonathan Schaefer Clinical Science Social and Environmental Determinants of Health, Neurodevelopment, Psychopathology | |
 | Lisa Monteggia Professor of Pharmacology, Psychology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Barlow Family Director of the Vanderbilt Brain Institute | Email Lab Website Website 615-936-5483 7140 Medical Research Building III 465 21st Avenue South Nashville, Tennessee - 37240-7933 |
The main focus of the Monteggia laboratory is on the molecular and cellular mechanisms that underlie psychiatric disorders. |
| Georgia Moon | |||
| Torrey Morgan Senior Administrative Specialist | Email 615-322-8141 Jesup 104 |
Peabody | |
| Wesley Morris | |||
 | Camille Msall | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Bethany Rittle-Johnson Developmental Science |
| Melina Mueller Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Isabel Gauthier Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
 | 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 |
 | Hamed Nejat Graduate Student | Email Website |
Neuroscience Analysis and mathematical modeling of Prediction, Attention, Memory and Learning with focus on human/non-human primates. |
| Adam Neumann Research Specialist Womelsdorf Lab | Email (615) 322-7066 |
Arts and Science | |
| Yanbin Niu | Faculty Advisor: Kathryn Humphreys Developmental Science | ||
 | Julia Noland Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Human Development | Email (615) 322-1835 319 Hobbs |
Developmental Science |
| Gabriella Noreen | Email Lab Website (615) 343-4564 |
Faculty Advisor: David Lubinski Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics | |
| Richard Odom Professor of Psychology, Emeritus | Email (615) 322-0052 528 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | |
 | Bunmi O. Olatunji Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology Associate Professor of Psychiatry Director of Clinical Training | 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 Department Chair Centennial Chair Professor of Psychology Professor of Computer Science Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | 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 |
 | Connor Parde Postdoctoral Scholar | Faculty Advisor: Frank Tong | |
 | Sohee Park Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website Website (615) 322-3435 525 Wilson Hall |
Clinical Science Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Psychosis-Spectrum, Self Disorders |
 | Ebony Pearson Graduate Student | Email Lab Website |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Yinuo Peng | |||
| Yinuo Peng Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Thomas Palmeri Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
 | Zheyue (Penny) Peng Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Ashley Watts Clinical Science | |
| Michelle Perdomo | |||
| Alan Peters Associate Professor of Electical Engineering | Lab Website |
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 | Lasyapriya Pidaparthi Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Wilson Hall 428 |
Faculty Advisor: Frank Tong Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Hannah Piersiak | Faculty Advisor: Kathryn Humphreys | ||
 | 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 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 & Data Analytics I develop and study multivariate models for correlational and longitudinal data. |
 | Huixin Qi Research Associate Professor | Email (615) (615) 322-5247 062 Wilson Hall |
Anatomical and functional organization of somatosensory system in primates |
| Yafei Qi Postdoctoral Scholar | Faculty Advisor: Timothy McNamara | ||
| Lanting Qiu Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Rene Marois Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
| Ken Rahman | Faculty Advisor: Kari Hoffman Neuroscience | ||
 | Ramnarayan (Ram) Ramachandran Assistant Professor of Hearing and Speech Sciences | Email 615-322-4991 065 Wilson Hall |
Neuronal basis of auditory and multisensory perception and behavior |
| Adam Ramsey | |||
 | Sydnie Rathert Grants Specialist | Email 301 Wilson Hall |
Handling the pre-award phase of the grant cycleDeveloping budgets SONA Arts and Science |
 | Cybele Raver Provost and Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs | Email Website (615) 322-4219 |
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| Sanjana Ravi | Faculty Advisor: Kathryn Humphreys | ||
 | Katrina Rbeiz Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Website 634 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Sohee Park Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders; Cross-Cultural Validity; Racial/Ethnic Trauma |
 | Jamie Reed Research Assistant Professor of Psychology | Email Website (615) 322-5245 060 Wilson Hall |
Research primarily centers on the somatosensory system of monkeys with and without sensory loss |
 | Gabrielle Reimann Doctoral Candidate | Email 210 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Antonia Kaczkurkin Clinical Science |
 | John Rieser Professor Emeritus, Psychology and Human Development Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development | Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Developmental Science | |
 | Bethany Rittle-Johnson Professor, 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 |
| Howard Roback Professor of Psychiatry Professor of Psychology | Lab Website |
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 | Joe Rodgers Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Emeritus | Email Hobbs 208 |
Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics |
| Adon Rosen Postdoctoral Scholar | Faculty Advisor: Ashley Watts | ||
| Norbert O. Ross Associate Professor of Anthropology Associate Professor of Anthropology and Psychology | Email (615) 322-6114 007 Garland Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | |
 | Mikail Rubinov Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Psychiatry and Psychology | Email Lab Website Website 615-343-1839 5805 Science & Engineering |
Integrative statistical models of big neuroscience networks, evolutionary principles of brain network organization, information transfer in neural systems, neuropsychiatric connectivity phenotypes. |
| Michelle Rumrill Assistant Lab Manager Hoffman Lab | Email (615) 322-7311 |
Arts and Science | |
| Kathryn Sam | Email Lab Website Hobbs 305 |
Faculty Advisor: Daniel Levin Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Media Psychology, Audiovisual Narratives, Moral Cognition, Cognitive Neuroscience | |
 | Elisabeth Sandberg Senior Lecturer in Psychology | Email (615) 322--0052 528 Wilson Hall |
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 | Howard Sandler Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Emeritus | Email (615) 322-8141 |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science |
 | Megan Saylor Professor of Psychology and Human Development Department Chair | Email Lab Website 102b Jesup |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science |
 | Jonathan Schaefer Assistant Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website |
Clinical Science Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | Jeffrey D. Schall Adjoint Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website (615) 322-0868 525 Wilson Hall |
Neuorophysiological, anatomical, and computational studies of visual attention, executive control, and decision making |
 | 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 |
 | Melanie Schuele Professor, Hearing and Speech Sciences Associate Professor, Dept. of Special Education, Dept. of Psychology and Human Development Director, Child Language and Literacy Laboratory | ||
 | 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 |
Dynamics of Perception and Cognition |
| Ashley Sellers Research Assistant Schlundt Lab | Arts and Science | ||
| Eli Sennesh Postdoctoral Scholar | Faculty Advisor: Andre Bastos | ||
| Joseph Sexton Research Technician Watts Lab | Arts and Science | ||
 | Margaret Shavlik Research Scholar | Email Lab Website Jesup 308 |
Faculty Advisor: Amy Booth Developmental Science Early literacy, achievement gaps, parent-child interaction Peabody |
| Sarah Shaw | |||
 | Sandra Simmons Professor of Medicine (SOM) Director VU Center for Quality Aging Paul V. Hamilton Chair in Geriatrics and Aging Research Professor of Medicine Division of Geriatrics Deputy Assistant Director VA Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) | Email Lab Website Website 615-343-6729 |
current research examines interventions to reduce polypharmacy and improve geriatric syndromes among hospitalized older adults transitioning to post-acute care. |
| Ali Sloan Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Jonathan Schaefer Clinical Science Ali is interested in using behavioral and neuroimaging approaches to study the underlying mechanisms linking childhood adversity to symptoms of psychopathology. | ||
 | Aubrey Smith Grants Manager | Email (615) 875-8449 301C Wilson Hall |
Grant questions/submissions Arts and Science |
 | William Smith Professor of Psychology, Emeritus | Email (615) 322-0065 |
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 | Conor J. R. Smithson Doctoral Candidate | Faculty Advisor: Isabel Gauthier Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Individual differences in high-level visual abillities. | |
| Abigail Snow Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Elisabeth Dykens Clinical Science Parenting BehaviorsEmotion Regulation Social Cognition | ||
| Magen Speegle Research Assistant Peer Review Coordinator, JEP:HPP and JEP:GEN | Email (615) 322-1558 220 Wilson Hall |
Arts and Science | |
 | James Steiger Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Emeritus | Email Website (615) 322-8141 |
Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics |
 | Iwona Stepniewska Research Associate Professor | Email (615) 322-5263 063 Wilson Hall |
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 & Data Analytics Program, and Faculty Advisor for the Data Science Institute | Email Website (615) 343-0507 202B Hobbs |
Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics |
 | Chris Strauss Senior Lecturer | Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics | |
 | Virginia (Ginni) Strehle Graduate Student | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Frank Tong Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Visual processing, human and artificial neural networks, face recognition |
| Virginia (Ginni) Strehle | |||
| Chrissy Suell Lab Manager Constantinidis Lab | Email (615) 322-7066 |
Arts and Science | |
| Jessica Szu-Chi Cheng | Faculty Advisor: Bunmi Olatunji Clinical Science | ||
| Roger Taylor | Lab Website |
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| Greta Thomas Grants Manager | Email 615-343-4964 Jesup 101C |
Peabody | |
 | Andrew Tomarken Professor of Psychology Emeritus | Email (615) 668-7294 |
Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics Statistics and 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 |
| Nathan Traczewski DevOps Engineer Womelsdorf Lab | Arts and Science | ||
 | Georgene Troseth Professor of Psychology, Emerita Department of Psychology & Human Development; Vanderbilt Kennedy Center | Email 615-948-1792 |
Developmental Science Young children |
| Jana Ulrich Research Assistant Logan Lab | Email 622B Wilson Hall |
Arts and Science | |
 | Lisa Venanzi Graduate Student | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Autumn Kujawa Clinical Science Suicide capability and neural measures of threat processing |
 | Sophia Vinci-Booher Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email 6153437365 |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Developmental Science Neuroscience |
 | Tedra Walden Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Emerita | Developmental Science Interdisciplinary Early social and emotional development and links to developmental disabilities | |
 | Lynn Walker Professor of Pediatrics Director of the Division of Adolescent Medicine and Behavioral Science in the Monroe Carell Jr. Children | Email Lab Website Website 936-8006 11128 Doctor |
Clinical Science |
 | 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 |
| Ken Wallston Professor of Psychology in Nursing Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor | Lab Website |
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| Jiuru Wang | |||
| Xinran Wang | |||
 | 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 |
| Kelly H. Watson Research Associate | Email 615-322-8290 208 Jesup |
Clinical Science Peabody | |
| Marcus Watson Application Developer Wallace Lab | Arts and Science | ||
 | Ashley Watts Assistant Professor of Psychology | Email 615-322-7311 |
Clinical Science Neuroscience |
 | Meredyth Wegener Sr. Lecturer of Neuroscience | Email Website 615-343-4624 Wilson Hall 324 |
Neuroscience |
 | Bahr Weiss Research Professor in Psychology and Human Development | Email (615) 829-6624 |
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| Wesley Morris Graduate Research Assistant | Email 4708088774 |
Application of Large Language Models for Natural Language Analysis in Education | |
 | Eric D. Wilkey Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Lab Website (615)343-9140 Hobbs 313A |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Cognition in Context Developmental Science |
| Noah Willhite Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Kari Hoffman Neuroscience | ||
 | Stephen Wilson Associate Professor, Hearing and Speech Sciences | ||
 | 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 |
 | Neil Woodward Associate Professor Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Psychology Bixler-Johnson-Mayes Chair | Email Lab Website Website 615-322-8361 |
The etiology and treatment of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders using neuroimaging. |
| Sarah Woronko Graduate Student | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Autumn Kujawa Clinical Science Spontaneously-generated thoughts, internalizing symptoms, physiology | |
 | Hao Wu Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics structural equation models, multivariate methods, model fit evaluation | |
 | Zengbo Xie Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Wilson Hall 405 |
Faculty Advisor: Rene Marois Faculty Advisor: Geoffrey Woodman Working Memory, Long term Memory, Attention, Neuroimaging, Computational Models |
 | Yihan (Sophy) Xiong Graduate Student | Email 311 Wilson Hall; 012 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Andre Bastos Neuroscience Neurophysiology of prediction and consciousness |
 | Irem Yildirim Postdoctoral Scholar | Faculty Advisor: Frank Tong | |
| Xinger Yu Postdoctoral Scholar | Faculty Advisor: Geoffrey Woodman | ||
 | David H. Zald Adjoint Professor of Psychology Director of the Affective Neuroscience Laboratory | Neuropsychology and neuroimaging, functions of the orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala and their relationship to psychiatric conditions | |
 | Cristina Zepeda Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email Lab Website Website 615-343-0387 Hobbs 317A |
Cognition in Context Developmental Science Metacognition, motivation, learning and transfer, self-regulated learning, and using educational technology to support learners |
 | Zelin Zhao Research Assistant Tong Lab | Arts and Science | |
| Yiwen Zhong | |||
| Yu Zhou |