Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Harold I. Siegel, Room 350, Smith Hall (973/353-5440)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Professors:

Colin Beer, FAS-N; D.Phil., Oxford
Ethology, history, and philosophical aspects of ethology; comparative psychology

Mei-Fang Cheng, FAS-N; Ph.D., Bryn Mawr
Neurobiology of vocal behavior/acoustic communication and reproductive behavior in the ring dove

Alan Gilchrist, FAS-N; Ph.D., Rutgers
Visual perception; surface color perception

Mark A. Gluck, CMBN; Ph.D., Stanford
Theories of human learning and memory; neurobiology of learning and memory; computational neuroscience; adaptive "neural" networks and their applications; animal learning theory

Stephen J. Hanson, FAS-N; Ph.D., Arizona State
Cognitive sciences; connectionist models; concepts and categorization

Barry R. Komisaruk, FAS-N; Ph.D., Rutgers
Neurophysiological study of pain and neuropharmacological suppression mechanisms; reproductive behavior in mammals

Kenneth Kressel, FAS-N; Ph.D., Columbia
Divorce mediation; clinical application of social psychology; resolution of social conflict

Lillian Robbins, FAS-N; Ph.D., New York
Social psychology

Maggie Shiffrar, FAS-N; Ph.D., Stanford
Motion perception; action-perception coupling

Paula Tallal, CMBN; Ph.D., Cambridge
Experimental psychology; developmental neuropsychology; language development and disorders; psychoacoustics; speech synthesis and perception; neural bases of perception, memory, cognitive, and motor processes

Associate Professors:

April A. Benasich, CMBN; Ph.D., New York
Developmental neuropsychology; language development and disorders, including familial genetic contributions to developmental trajectories; perceptual-cognitive abilities (habituation, recognition memory, auditory temporal processing) and language development in infants at risk for developmental delays; public policy focus on early intervention programs

Gunther Knoblich, FAS-N; Ph.D., Hamburg (Germany)
Social cognitive neuroscience; perception of self- and other-generated actions; joint action; problem solving

Harold Siegel, FAS-N; Ph.D., Rutgers
Development of maternal responsiveness

Assistant Professors:

Jennifer Austin, FAS-N; Ph.D., Stanford
Language acquisition; bilingualism and language contact

Ben Martin Bly, FAS-N; Ph.D., Stanford
Language; functional brain organization; fMRI

Kent Harber, FAS-N; Ph.D., Stanford
Interracial feedback biases; coping and social support

Maria Kozhevnikov, FAS-N; Ph.D., California (Santa Barbara)
Mental imagery, spatial updating, multimedia learning

Catherine E. Myers, FAS-N; Ph.D., London
Computational neuroscience (neural network models), learning and memory, experimental neuropsychology

Bart Rypma, FAS-N; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Working memory; reasoning; cognitive aging; prefrontal cortical functioning

Gretchen Van de Walle, FAS-N; Ph.D., Cornell
Perceptual and conceptual development in infancy

Adjunct Member:

Susan V. Szapiel, FAS-N; M.D., Rush Medical College, Chicago
Visual cortical functional architecture; optical imaging; brain plasticity;
verstibular plasticity

Professors Emeriti:

John Ceraso, FAS-N; Ph.D., New School for Social Research
Organization and memory; learning, forgetting, reasoning

Melvin Feffer, FAS-N; Ph.D., Chicago
Personality development; moral development; critique of psychoanalysis

Howard Ernest Gruber, FAS-N; Ph.D., Cornell
Creativity; case study method; cognitive development

Ernst Walter Hansen, FAS-N; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Experimental design; statistics; behavioral development

Jay S. Rosenblatt, FAS-N; Ph.D., New York
Hormones and maternal behavior in mammals; mother-young interactions and behavioral development in mammals