Primary Faculty
Steven R. Asher
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Peer relations, friendship, social competence, social cognition, loneliness
Gary G. Bennett
Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Obesity, digital health, mHealth, intervention, medically vulnerable populations, population health, dissemination
Elika Bergelson
Crandall Family Assistant Professor
Language acquisition, word learning, cognitive development, psycholinguistics
Staci D. Bilbo
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Neuroimmune interactions, microglia biology, fetal origins of adult disease and health disparities, sex differences, environmental neurobiology and environmental justice
Roberto Cabeza
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Episodic memory, semantic memory, visual memory, attention effects on memory, healthy aging, Alzheimer's Disease, fMRI, TMS, cognitive neuroscience
Avshalom Caspi
Edward M. Arnett Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Development, epidemiology, genetics, health inequalities, personality
Ruth S. Day
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Everyday cognition, medical cognition, psychology and law, memory for movement, education
Tobias Egner
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Cognitive control, memory, attention, predictive coding, neuroimaging, neurostimulation
Michael Santo Gaffrey
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Early experience, brain development, developmental psychopathology, preventive intervention, mood disorders, autism spectrum disorder
Sarah Elizabeth Gaither
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Biracial and social identities, interracial interactions, racial categorizations, social development
Jennifer M. Groh
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Perception, Vision, Hearing, Neuroscience, Space, brain stimulation
Bridgette Martin Hard
Associate Professor of the Practice of Psychology and Neuroscience and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Psychology of teaching and learning, educational interventions
Ahmad Hariri
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Neuroscience, genetics, psychopathology risk, individual differences
Rick Hoyle
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Self-regulation, personality, adolescent problem behavior, research methods
Scott Huettel
Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and Chair
Decision making, neuroeconomics, behavioral economics, social cognition, executive function, fMRI
Kevin S. LaBar
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Emotion, memory, fear, associative learning, brain imaging, psychophysiology
Elizabeth J. Marsh
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Associate Chair
Memory, learning, knowledge, metacognition, education
Jenna Ann McHenry
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Two-photon and miniscope deep brain in vivo calcium imaging, optogenetics, neural circuits, social behavior, steroids and sex differences
Terrie E. Moffitt
Nannerl O. Keohane University Distinguished Professor
Developmental psychopathology, longitudinal cohorts, aging, neuropsychology, antisocial
Thomas Mark Newpher
Assistant Professor of the Practice of Psychology and Neuroscience
Synaptic plasticity, learning and memory, neuroscience education, scholarship of teaching and learning
Minna Ng
Assistant Professor of the Practice of Psychology and Neuroscience
Visual perception and neural processing, educational neuroscience, service learning, pedagogy and team-based practices.
Tobias Overath
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Sound processing in the human brain
Eve S. Puffer
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Global mental health, community-based interventions, family functioning, HIV prevention, child mental health
Martha Putallaz
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Children's social competency and relationships, parent and peer influences, aggression and peer rejection
David Rabiner
Research Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Violence prevention, ADHD, academic interventions, children with attention difficulties
David C. Rubin
Juanita M. Kreps Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Memory, autobiographical memory, PTSD, Oral traditions, neural basis of memory
Gregory Russell Samanez-Larkin
Jack H. Neely Associate Professor
Age-related motivation and cognition influence, decision making, health behavior across the life span
Paul Seli
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Mind wandering, attention, multitasking, cognitive control, creativity
James Shah
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Motivation, goal pursuit, social cognition, self-regulation
Timothy J. Strauman
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Self-regulation, depression, translational research
Margarita Lvovna Svetlova
Assistant Research Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Social development, moral development, empathy, prosocial behavior
Michael Tomasello
James F. Bonk Distinguished Professor
Children, great apes, social cognition, communication, cooperation, social learning
Angela Vieth
Lecturer of Psychology and Neuroscience and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
Self-regulation, personality, depression
Leonard Edward White
Associate Professor in Neurology
Functional architecture of the visual cortex, role of sensory experience in development
Makeba Parramore Wilbourn
Associate Professor of the Practice of Psychology and Neuroscience
Development, gesture, early word learning, cognition and language, socio-cultural factors
Christina L. Williams
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Effects of nutrients and hormones on the brain, neuroscience, development, estrogen, choline
Henry Yin
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Director of Graduate Studies
Reward, action, goal, learning, habit, basal ganglia, brain, motivation
Nancy Lee Zucker
Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Associate Director of Graduate Studies
Pediatric, Adolescent, and Adult Eating Disorders, Psychosomatic Disorders, Interoception
