All labs are well equipped and many supported by grants from NSF, NIH, NASA, DARPA, and other organizations. Several faculty members have appointments and working collaborations with research labs in city hospitals and medical schools with access to frontier technologies such as fMRI.

Faculty Research Areas

comparative/animal/bio/neuroscience:

• computational neuroscience; behavioral neuroscience; integration of neural populations in cognitive function; neural networks; basic behavioral sciences
• animal behavior; pavlovian mechanisms; BioMimetic & Cognitive Robotics
• biopsychology of appetite; food preferences, obesity in humans and laboratory animals; physiology of feeding

applied/clinical/neuroscience:

• clinical neuropsychology;cognitive neuroscience; neurohormones; human behavior genetics
• abnormal psychology; neurodevelopment of psychopathology, cognitive/neuropsychological functioning, and early risk factors in the development of psychopathology; cognitive changes associated with early stages of dementia; psychological dysfunction in neuro-degenerative disease; cognitive remediation

cognitive:

• associative learning; learning in food preferences; cognitive foundations of complex learning; implicit learning; knowledge acquisition in communication; extinction
• cognitive development; language development
• thinking; language; memory; hypermnesia; metacognition
• motivation; cognitive and motivational interactions; psychodynamic aspects of cognition, subliminal processes, defense mechanisms
• cognitive studies of creativity, expertise in visual arts
• social cognition

basic sensory processes:

• sensory systems, psychophysics
• vision, color vision; marine chemical senses & olfaction; visual psychophysiology
• sensory/perceptual development in infants; aging and vision, life-span changes
• spatial-temporal contrast sensitivity; stereopsis

personality/social-organizational:

• social psychology; social cognition, social identification, self-concept, prejudice and stereotyping; attitudinal ambivalence; sex differences; social interaction; communication; groups research, transactive knowledge systems
• industrial and organizational psychology, organizational psychology
• evolutionary psychology; mate selection; human mating
• personality; interpretation of dreams and jokes

testing/methods/measurement/philosophy of science/stuff:

• ecological validity of neuropsychological instruments
• psychological testing
• eye movements
• epistemology
• philosophical psychology
• lexicography