College of Arts & Sciences

Richard Abrams, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Attention
- Motor control
- Perception

David Balota, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Visual word recognition
- Semantic memory
- Priming on implicit memory tests
- Attention systems that modulate performance
- Senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type

John Baugh, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Sociolinguistics
- Language, Equity and Environmental Change
- Linguistic Profiling
- Econolinguistics

Yehuda Ben-Shahar, PhD
Biology
Research Topics
- Behavioral genetics
- Neuroethology
- Molecular evolution

Ryan Bogdan, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- How genetic and environmental factors shape brain function, behavior, and psychopathology

Pascal Boyer, PhD
Anthropology
Research Topics
- Evolution and Culture
- Naturalness of Religion
- Individual and Collective Memory

Todd Braver, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying memory, attention, and controlled processing

Julie Bugg, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Top-down vs. stimulus-driven control mechanisms
- Environmental contingencies moderates use of top-down control
- Differential effects of normal aging on multiple levels of cognitive control

Andrew Butler, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- How the process of retrieving memories: affects the content and phenomenological characteristics of those memories

Bruce Carlson, PhD
WashU Biology
Keywords: Sensory neuroscience, evolutionary neuroscience, neuroethology

Brian Carpenter, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Clinical psychology of aging
- Late-life family communication
- Alzheimer's disease knowledge in older adults
- End of life mental health issues

Carl Craver, PhD
Philosophy
Research Topics
- Deficits in agency and moral reasoning in people with amnesia
- Nature of scientific explanation
- The norms of progress for experimental instruments and techniques
- Difference between modeler's and maker's knowledge of the brain

Ian Dobbins, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Interaction of Episodic Memory and Decision-Making

Tammy English, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Socio-cultural and situational influences on emotion regulation
- Adult development in emotion and emotion regulation
- Consequences of emotion regulation for social functioning, psychological well-being, and physical health

Leonard Green, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Choice and decision-making
- Self-control
- Behavioral economics
- Discounting of delaed and probabilistic outcomes

Sandra Hale, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Developmental changes in speed of information processing across the life span
- Role of age-related and other individual differences on other aspects of cognition

Denise Head, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Neural underpinnings of cognitive aging the contributing factors and effective intervention

Keith Hengen, PhD
Biology
Research Topics
- Homeostatic plasticity
- Behavior
- Disease
- Self-organization
- Emergence
- Learning

Patrick Hill, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- How individuals explore options for and ultimately commit to a purpose for life
- How having a sense of purpose predicts important life outcome

Brett Hyde, PhD
Philosophy
Research Topics
- Phonology
- Metrical stress theory
- Typology of weight-insensitive binary stress patterns
- The role of NonFinality constraints in producing weight-sensitivity
- Problematic phenomena in Banawá prosody
- Measures of syllable weight in unbounded stress systems

Meredith Jackrel, PhD
Chemistry
Research Topics
- Protein folding, misfolding, and neurodegenerative disease
- Protein chaperones; protein engineering
- Amyloid
- Yeast models of disease
- Motor proteins

Joshua Jackson, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Development and assessment of personality

Wouter Kool, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Explores the interaction between cognitive control, decision-making and reinforcement learning

Calvin Lai, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Learning how implicit biases change
- Understanding the consequences of implicit bias for behavior
- Developing interventions to reduce the impact of implicit biases on behavior

Alan Lambert, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Cognitive and affective processes that underlie social and political judgment

Mary Lambo, PhD
Biology
Research Topics
- Experience-dependent neural plasticity mechanisms in visual cortex
- STEM curriculum design
- Pedagogical strategy
- Evidence-based teaching methods

Seanna Leath, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Variation in the family and school-based experiences of Black youth and young adults

Rebecca Lester, PhD
Anthropology
Research Topics
- Embodiment
- Intersubjectivity
- Cultural practices of self-cultivation

Ron Mallon, PhD
Philosophy
Research Topics
- Philosophy of Mind
- Cognitive Science Experimental Philosophy
- Philosophy of Science and Social Science
- Social and Political Theory
- Ethics

Lori Markson, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Conceptual development and social cognitive development in infancy and early childhood

Kathleen McDermott, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Human memory encoding and retrieval and how they interact

Joel Myerson, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Behavioral economics
- Cognitive aging

Yosuke Okuno, PhD
Chemistry
Research Topics
- Biophysical Chemistry
- Solution-state NMR
- Protein-ligand/protein-protein interactions
- Protein hydration
- Neurodegenerative diseases

Thomas Oltmanns, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Assessment of personality disorders, especially discrepancies between people’s descriptions of themselves and the ways in which they are described by others

Gary Patti, PhD
Chemistry
Research Topics
- Elucidating metabolic pathways involved in neuropathic pain and aging that may serve as novel therapeutic targets

Jake Quilty-Dunn, PhD
Philosophy
Research topics:
- Philosophy of Mind
- Cognitive Science
- Philosophy of Perception
- Philosophy of Language

E.A. Quinn, Phd, MPH
Anthropology
Research Topics
- Development of novel biomarkers for the study of human milk

Zachariah Reagh, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- How we represent and remember experiences, and how this changes as we age

Mitchell Sommers, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Speech perception and auditory processing in young, elderly, and individuals with Alzheimer's disease

Paul Stein, PhD
Biology
Research Topics
- Spinal cord control of limb movement
- Scratch reflex in turtles
- Central pattern generators

Michael Strube, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Self-knowledge
- Self-esteem
- Decision making

Jessie Sun, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Moral improvement
- Morality and Well-Being
- Social Interactions and Well-Being

Renee Thompson, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Understanding the everyday emotional experience in individuals diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder