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 |
![]() | Robert Randolph Blake Centennial Professor Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Email Lab Website (615) 343-7010 512A Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Neural bases of human visual perception |
![]() | Isabel Gauthier David K. Wilson Chair of Psychology Associate 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 |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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's Faculty Fellow in Mental Health | 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. |
![]() | Joseph S. Lappin Research Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website (941) 323-5489 510 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Career-long aim: Identifying visual information and the mechanisms of its selective recognition. |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Rankin Williams McGugin Research Assistant Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website Website (615) 322-5522 604 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
![]() | Timothy P. McNamara Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Social and Natural Sciences Professor - Department of Psychology | Email Lab Website (615) 322-4150 509 Wilson Hall |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Human memory & cognition; spatial memory & navigation |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Thomas Palmeri Distinguished Professor of Psychology Department Chair | 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 Website (615) 322-3435 525 Wilson Hall |
Clinical Science Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Psychosis-Spectrum, Self Disorders |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 | |
![]() | Elisabeth Sandberg Senior Lecturer in Psychology | Email (615) 322--0052 528 Wilson Hall |
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![]() | Jonathan Schaefer Assistant Professor of Psychology | Clinical Science Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Iwona Stepniewska Research Associate Professor | Email (615) 322-5263 063 Wilson Hall |
Neuroscience Anatomical and functional organization of motor and sensory systems in primates |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Ashley Watts Assistant Professor of Psychology | Email 615-322-7311 |
Clinical 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 |