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Name	Rank	Research Interests
Abramov, Israel	Professor	Visual Psychophysiology.
Barr, Gordon	Professor	Developmental Biopsychology: Developmental neuropharmacology, pain perception, drug abuse, opiate analgesia, reward and withdrawal.
Braun, Christopher	Associate Professor	Sensory Neuroethology, especially audition and electroreception in fishes; Multisensory integration; Evolution of the vertbrate brain and sense organs.
Chase, Sheila	Professor	Comparative cognition, memory and decision processes in humans and other animals, psychophysics, perception, computer modeling.
Chodorow, Martin	Associate Professor	Implicit processes in memory and learning; gender differences in mathematics and spatial ability.
Dennis, Tracy	Assistant Professor	Clinical and Developmental Psychology: Emotion regulation, developmental psychopathology, and neurophysiological markers for emotion-cognition interactions
Fried, Robert	Professor	Psychophysiology: Biofeedback behavior physiology, EEG.
Gordon, James	Professor	Sensory Psychology: Color vision, visual neuropsychology, vision in infants.
Harding, Cheryl	Professor	Behavioral neuroendocrinology, hormonal modulation of social behavior, neuroendocrine modulation of learning, effects of mold exposure on cognition and brain function.
Hofer, Myron	Adjunct Professor	Developmental processes, particularly those embedded in the early mother-infant interaction.
Jenab, Shirzad	Assistant Professor	Drugs of abuse signal transduction, gene expression, neurodegeneration, c-fos, cocaine, morphine.
Lewis, Michael	Professor	Alcohol Dependence, Substance Abuse, Eating Disorders
Luine, Victoria	Distinguished Professor	The contributions of specific neurotransmitters to the decline of memory function with aging. The role of serotonin in the expression and regulation of female sexual behavior.
Moller, Peter	Professor	Multisensory integration investigating the role of electric organ discharges and their integration with other senses in orientation freshwater electric fishes (Mormyridae). Effects of gonadal steroids on the expression of courtship display structures and behavior in African mormyrid fish.
Ploog, Bertram	Professor	Behavior analysis; animal learning; attentional processes; volitional behavior; autism.
Prasada, Sandeep	Assistant Professor	Cognitive and developmental psychology: Conceptual & lexical representation in mind and brain, Language acquisition.
Quinones-Jenab, Vanya	Associate Professor	Molecular and Neuro-endocrinological Bases of Behavior: Drug abuse effects on maternal behaviors and CNS/endocrine mechanism, ovarian hormones and pain pathways.
Rabinowitz, Vita	Professor	Gender issues in health research; methodological issues in the study of gender; gender equity in the workplace; gender and advancement in science and academia.
Rockwell, Robert	Professor	Population and community dynamics in arctic and wetland ecosystems. Foraging behavior is a driving force in those ecosystems and is a specific area of interest.
Valian, Virginia	Distinguished Professor	First and second language acquisition; sex differences in math; gender and advancement in science.
Wiedenmayer, Christoph	Assistant Professor	Developmental Psychobiology: Development of the fear response
Zeigler, H.P.	Distinguished Professor	Neuroethology of movement. Sensory processing and motor control of active touch. Development of a mobile sensory system.