IU STARS Mentors - Psychology and Brain Sciences
Joshua Brown: Studies the neural basis of cognitive control of behavior, using a combination of fMRI and computational neural modeling.
Joseph Farley: Animal learning and behavior and behavioral neuroscience—behavioral neurobiology; cellular mechanisms of learning and memory; excitable membranes; molecular bases of signal transduction.
Preston E. Garraghty: Behavioral neuroscience—electrophysiological, neuroanatomical, and immunocytochemical analysis of adult neural plasticity in cortical and subcortical structures; epilepsy and the behavioral effects of antiepileptic drugs on learning and memory in rats, rabbits, and humans.
Bill Hetrick:Clinical neuropsychology: investigations of perceptual and cognitive deficits in schizophrenia and related disorders using neuropsychological, electroencephalographic (EEG), and electromyographic (EMG) techniques.
Ed Hirt: Social cognition, focusing primarily on self-protective behaviors such as self-handicapping; judgment and decision making; affect and emotion and their effects on motivation and performance.
Amy Holtzworth-Munroe: studies marital or intimate partner violence, with a focus on male batterers. Research examines the social skills deficits of violent husbands and subtypes of violent men. Some research on battered women, marital distress, and marital therapy, but primary focus is marital violence.
Thomas James: Cognitive neuroscience. Using functional MRI we investigate the human brain regions involved in visual face and object recognition and multisensory (vision, touch, hearing) object recognition.
Michael Jones:
Research interests: computational models of memory and language; dynamics of knowledge and language acquisition; categorization and concept learning; attention in reading and visual navigation; artificial intelligence; specifically swarm intelligence
Sharlene Newman: Cognitive Neuroscience - My research uses functional neuroimaging to study language and frontal lobe processes (problem-solving and planning primarily).
Brian O'Donnell: Use of behavioral and electrophysiological techniques to investigate perceptual and attentional disturbances in severe mental illness, and neurodegenerative disorders.
Anne L. Prieto: Role of receptor tyrosine kinases in brain function. We use cellular and molecular tools as well as transgenic animal models to explore neuro developmental event regulated by receptor tyrosine kinases.
George V. Rebec: Behavioral neuroscience – cellular and neural circuit correlates of drug abuse and addiction; neurochemical substrates of neurodegenerative disease in transgenic models. Current studies use anatomical, chemical, and electrophysiological procedures to assess changes in synaptic transmission.
Dale Sengelaub: The relationship between the structure of neural systems and the behaviors they mediate, as well as the pronounced plasticity displayed by both. Studies of the factors that determine neuron number, morphology, and connectivity in the brain and spinal cord, and how those structural specializations and changes are reflected behaviorally.
Eliot R. Smith: Research interests include: role of intergroup emotions (emotions experienced with respect to one's collective self as a group member) in prejudice and intergroup relations; new conceptualizations of cognition as situated and embodied and their implications for social cognition; Connectionist or neural network models in social psychology; social cognition in general, particularly the nature of mental representations of persons and groups and their effects on social judgments, including person perception and stereotyping.
Linda B. Smith: Psychology and cognitive science—word learning by children and neural nets.
Olaf Sporns: Research interests include computational and cognitive neuroscience, functional integration and binding in the cortex, neural models of perception and action, network structure and dynamics, applications of information theory to the brain, embodied cognitive science and robotics.
William D. Timberlake: Biology and behavior—ecological and evolutionary analysis of learning, behavior systems, regulatory processes in appetitive behavior and ingestion, circadian and ultradian rhythms in feeding and drug abuse, time horizons, spatial control of locomotion, purposive behavior.
James Townsend: Development of general mathematical approaches to human information processing, cognitive psychology including visual pattern recognition, especially face perception, memory scanning, decision theory, and human factors.
Stan Wasserman
Research Area: Mathematical Psychology
Research Interests: Applied statistics; social networks
Cara Wellman: My research focuses on the neurobiology of aging and stress, two critical variables in the development and expression of the psychopathology. By using simple animal models that permit the manipulation and control of these variables, I hope to understand the neural causes and consequences of abnormal behavior. I am using two such models to characterize age and stress induced changes in the structure and neurochemistry of neurons in frontal cortex.
Chen Yu
Research Area: Cognitive Science, Developmental Psychology
Research Interests: Cognitive development; language acquisition; perceptual intelligence; machine learning
NOTE: Many of these faculty members are also listed under Cognitive Science and Neuroscience.
