 | George Abitante Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: David Cole Clinical Science Quantitative Methods Adolescent Depression & Affective Health | |
 | Alexandra Adamis Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Wilson Hall 312 |
Faculty Advisor: Bunmi Olatunji Clinical Science Attentional bias and control, perseverative thinking, ecological momentary assessment, anxiety |
 | Rebecca Adler Doctoral Candidate | Email Lab Website Website |
Faculty Advisor: Bethany Rittle-Johnson Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science |
| 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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 | Allegra Skye Anderson Doctoral Candidate | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science Risk and protective factors influencing the development of psychopathology. |
 | 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 |
Procurement Expense 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 | ||
 | Lauren G. Bailes Postdoctoral Scholar | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Kathryn Humphreys Developmental Science Parent–child interactions, infant social and emotional development, emotions and caregiving |
| 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 | |
 | Whitney Barnett Research Assistant Professor | Email Lab Website 615-589-1191 |
Faculty Advisor: Kathryn Humphreys Developmental Science |
 | Andre Bastos Assistant Professor of Psychology | Email Lab Website |
Neuroscience |
 | 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. |
| 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 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 mental health services for children, evaluation research, applied research methods | |
 | Robert Randolph Blake Centennial Professor Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Research Professor of Psychology Professor of Psychology Emeritus | Email Lab Website (615) 343-7010 512A 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: Ashley Watts Clinical Science I study the overlap between substance use disorders and other mental illnesses and its related comorbidities. | |
| 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 language processing, conversation, memory, communication following brain injury and neurodegenerative disease |
 | 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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 | Brock Carlson Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 615-322-6019 426 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Alexander Maier Neuroscience I am interested in visual awareness and binocular vision within the primate brain. |
 | 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 Affairs Human 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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 | Emilia Cárdenas | Email Lab Website Website |
Faculty Advisor: Autumn Kujawa Clinical Science Depression, Peripartum Health, and Early Life Stress. |
| 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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 | 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 Psychometrics |
| Jeongwon Choi | Email Hobbs 210 |
Faculty Advisor: Hao Wu Quantitative Methods | |
 | Alexander Christensen Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development Data Science Institute Affiliate Faculty | Email Website (615) 343-3180 Hobbs 213B |
Quantitative Methods 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 |
| 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 |
 | Carlie Corey Research Coordinator Schaefer Lab | Arts and Science | |
 | Savannah Crutchfield Administrative Officer | Email (615) 322-6254 301D Wilson Hall |
Day-to-day operations Staff 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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 | Christopher Daniell Graduate Student | Email Hobbs 301 |
Faculty Advisor: Elisabeth Dykens Clinical Science Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and comorbid psychopathology |
 | 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 |
 | Lindsay Dickey | Faculty Advisor: Autumn Kujawa Clinical Science | |
| Doug Kuntz System Administrator | Email 522 Wilson Hall |
Arts and Science | |
 | Ashli-Ann Douglas Post Doctoral Scholar | Email Lab Website Hobbs 201 |
Developmental Science |
 | 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 |
 | Leighton Durham Doctoral Candidate | Email Lab Website Wilson Hall 205 |
Faculty Advisor: Antonia Kaczkurkin Clinical Science Internalizing symptoms, dimensional psychopathology, brain development, hierarchical modeling, symptom classification, brain structure |
 | 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 | ||
 | Melissa Evans Graduate Student | Email Website |
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Brown-Schmidt Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Studying language production and memory |
 | 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 |
| 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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 | Justin Flanagan Graduate Student | Email 515 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Rene Marois |
 | 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 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 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 |
 | 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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 | Nicolette Granata Graduate Student | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Jonathan Lane Developmental Science disability concepts; moral development; theory of mind; social cognition |
 | Yunlai Gui Research Assistant Park Lab | Arts and Science | |
| 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 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 |
 | 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 | |
| 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 |
 | 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 Quantitative Methods, categorical data analysis, longitudinal data modeling and survival analysis |
| Isabella Jackson Research Technician Watts Lab | Arts and Science | ||
| Ally Jacobs Education Coordinator | Email 615-343-4963 |
Peabody | |
 | Laura Janakiefski | Email Lab Website Website Hobbs 306 |
Faculty Advisor: Megan Saylor Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science language development, cognitive development, word learning, memory |
 | 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 | |
 | Hee Jung Jeong Doctoral Candidate | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Antonia Kaczkurkin Clinical Science |
 | Jinhyeok Jeong Doctoral Candidate | Email Lab Website Website 517 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Palmeri Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | Sarah Jessup Doctoral Candidate | Email Lab Website 615-343-5476 Wilson 312 |
Faculty Advisor: Bunmi Olatunji Clinical Science Exposure, inhibitory learning, anxiety, OCD |
 | 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. |
 | Jake Kaufman | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Bethany Rittle-Johnson Developmental Science Numerical and Mathematical Cognition; learning mechanisms |
 | Autumn Kujawa Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development Secondary Appointment in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Vanderbilt Brain Institute Training Faculty; Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Member | Email Lab Website |
Clinical Science mental health, 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 |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science Social-cognitive development; conceptual development; theory-of-mind; intergroup relations |
 | Joseph S. Lappin Research Professor of Psychology Professor Emeritus | 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 |
 | HyeonSeung (Hanson) Lee Doctoral Candidate | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Sohee Park Clinical Science Schizophrenia, Self concept, Cognition, Social cognition, Interoception, Peripersonal space |
 | Madison Lee Doctoral Candidate | Email Website |
Faculty Advisor: Daniel Levin Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Visual Cognition, Self-regulation, Technology-Enhanced Learning |
 | 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 |
| Yunzhen (Amy) Liang Graduate Student | Email 214 Hobbs |
Faculty Advisor: Sonya Sterba Quantitative Methods | |
 | Chia-Chi Liao Research Assistant Professor of Psychology | Email 615-322-2874 |
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| Simon Lilburn Postdoctoral Scholar | Faculty Advisor: Thomas Palmeri | ||
 | Qimin Liu | Faculty Advisor: David Cole Clinical Science Quantitative Methods | |
 | 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 |
 | Sophia Lubarsky Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: David Cole Clinical 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 |
| 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 |
 | Lauren Malachowski | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Amy Needham Developmental Science |
 | Kimmy Marble Assistant Professor of the Practice of Psychology and Human Development | Email 615-343-2195 Hobbs 301 |
Developmental Science |
 | 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 |
 | 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. |
| Torrey Morgan Administrative Assistant | Email 615-322-8141 Jesup 104 |
Peabody | |
| Wesley Morris | |||
| Margaret Mosby Research Assistant Olatunji Lab | Arts and Science | ||
 | Camille Msall | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Bethany Rittle-Johnson Developmental Science |
| Melina Mueller Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Isabel Gauthier Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
| Matthew Naveiras | Faculty Advisor: Sun-Joo Cho Quantitative Methods | ||
 | 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 | 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 | |
 | 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) |
| 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 |
| Keely Paul Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Thilo Womelsdorf Neuroscience | ||
 | Ebony Pearson Graduate Student | Email Lab Website |
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Samantha Pegg | Email Lab Website Website |
Faculty Advisor: Autumn Kujawa Clinical Science Mood disorders, emotion and reward processing | |
| 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 | |||
| Raunak Pillai | Faculty Advisor: Lisa Fazio Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
 | Abigail E. Pine | Email Hobbs 301 |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science |
 | 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 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 cycle Developing budgets SONA Arts and Science |
 | Cybele Raver Provost and Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs | Email Website (615) 322-4219 |
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 | 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 |
| David Ricci Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Andre Bastos Neuroscience | ||
 | 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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 | Noah Robinson Doctoral Candidate | Email Website |
Faculty Advisor: Steven Hollon Clinical Science |
 | Joe Rodgers Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Emeritus | Email Hobbs 208 |
Quantitative Methods |
| 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 | |
 | Marissa Roth | Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science Perinatal Mental Health; Neurocognitive Function and Coping in Children with Chronic Medical Conditions | |
 | 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 | |
 | Virginia Salo Postdoctoral Scholar | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Kathryn Humphreys Parent-child interaction and early social-cognitive development |
 | 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 |
 | Michael Sangimino Research Assistant Park Lab | Email (615) 322-3435 |
Arts and 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 | 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 |
 | Rachel Siciliano Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 615-322-6613 311 Hobbs |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science Stress, trauma, and adversity, risk for psychopathology, and the development and implementation of interventions in at-risk youth and families |
 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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 Behaviors Emotion 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 |
 | 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 Program, and Faculty Advisor for the Data Science Institute | Email Website (615) 343-0507 202B Hobbs |
Quantitative Methods |
 | Chris Strauss Senior Lecturer | Quantitative Methods | |
 | 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 | |
| Roger Taylor | Lab Website |
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| Christopher Thomas Staff Scientist Womelsdorf Lab | Arts and Science | ||
| Greta Thomas Grants Manager | Email 615-343-4964 Jesup 101C |
Peabody | |
 | Adam Tiesman Research Assistant Wallace Lab | Arts and Science | |
 | Andrew Tomarken Professor of Psychology Emeritus | Email (615) 668-7294 |
Quantitative Methods 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 | ||
| Laura Trice Research Assistant Kaas Lab | Email (615) 322-7491 055 Wilson Hall |
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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 | 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. |
 | Hao Wu Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development | Email 3-0364 |
Quantitative Methods structural equation models, multivariate methods, model fit evaluation |
 | Zengbo Xie Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Wilson Hall 405 |
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 |
 | Haley Yaremych Graduate Student | Email Website Office: Hobbs 214 |
Faculty Advisor: Kristopher Preacher Quantitative Methods multilevel modeling; multilevel structural equation modeling (MSEM); family systems; parenting; virtual reality |
 | 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 |
