Faculty
Expertise: Cognitive neuroscience, executive function, neuromodulator systems (dopamine, acetylcholine), aging.
Expertise: Early adversity, intimate partner violence, mechanisms of risk and resilience, and traumatic stress.
Expertise: Human spatial orientation, posture and balance, movement control and coordination, sensory-motor adaptation, motor development, multi-sensory interactions, space perception, space flight physiology, human factors in virtual environments, motion sickness, brain-computer interaction.
Expertise: Effects of age and culture on memory and social cognition.
Expertise: Social and affective neuroscience; cross-group resonance; emotion and self-control; empathy and environmentalism.
Expertise: Cognitive neuroscience, reward, learning, decision-making, chemosensation.
Expertise: Neurophysiology of learning and decision-making.
Expertise: Neural dynamics of gustatory perception and learning.
Expertise: Life-span development, midlife, aging, sense of control, adult personality, memory, health-promoting behaviors, intervention research to improve cognitive and physical functioning.
Expertise: Spatial orientation, human movement control, adaptation to unusual force environments.
Expertise: Applied statistics; linear and nonlinear multilevel modeling / hierarchical linear modeling (HLM); structural equation modeling (SEM); general and generalized linear modeling; longitudinal data analysis child development: factors (at individual, familial, communal and cultural levels) related to child psychological adjustment (internalizing and externalizing) and school performance.
Expertise: Developmental cognitive neuroscience and psychology.
Expertise: Visual perception, cognitive processes, particularly visual memory, navigation of complex environments, imitation of seen actions, age-related changes in cognitive function.
Expertise: Cognitive processes, adolescent development, developmental psychopathology.
Expertise: The intersection between clinical psychology, depression, gender, development, emotion regulation, specifically: gender and developmental differences in and risks for depression; risk, resiliency and depression prevention; emotion regulation, self-focused attention, rumination and reflection; coping, and development; psychosomatic obstetrics and gynecology and affective disorders (i.e., postpartum depression and premenstrual dysphoric disorder).
Adjunct Faculty
Expertise: Intersectionality of emotion and sympathetic nervous system and neuroendocrine stress responses, and predictors and moderators of these underlying mechanisms, including the effects of age, culture, gender and body image.
Emeriti
Expertise: Clinical and developmental psychology, nonverbal communication, emotional development; gender differences.
Expertise: Visual space perception and information processing; monocular visual space perception: size and shape constancy and the metric perceived space.
Expertise: Clinical psychology and experimental psychopathology, with specific expertise in psychopathy, sexual aggression and bullying.
Expertise: Developmental psychology.
Expertise: Age-related hearing loss in older adults and its effects on cognitive function, speech comprehension and memory.
Expertise: Comparative psychology, learning theory, sensory physiology.
Expertise: Social psychology, face perception, facial stereotypes (babyfaceness, attractiveness), aging and social perception.