Department of Psychology

Expertise: Cognitive neuroscience, executive function, neuromodulator systems (dopamine, acetylcholine), aging

Expertise: Clinical and developmental psychology, nonverbal communication, emotional development; gender differences

Expertise: Human spatial orientation, posture and balance, movement control and coordination, sensory-motor adaptation, motor development, multi-sensory interactions, space perception, space flight physiology, human factors in virtual environments, motion sickness, brain-computer interaction

Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Laboratory Website: http://www.brandeis.edu/graybiel/

Expertise: Effects of age and culture on memory and social cognition

Aging, Culture & Cognition Laboratory Website: http://www.brandeis.edu/gutchess/

Expertise: Social and affective neuroscience, cross-group resonance, emotion and self-control, empathy and environmentalism

Social Interaction and Motivation Laboratory Website: http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/psych/gutsell/

Expertise: Neurophysiology of learning and decision making

Learning, Memory and Decision Making Lab Website: http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/jadhavlab/index.html

Expertise: Neural dynamics of gustatory perception and learning

Behavior, learning, & Electrophysiology of Chemosensation Lab Website: https://sites.google.com/a/brandeis.edu/katzlab/

Expertise: Life-span development, midlife, aging, sense of control, adult personality, memory, health-promoting behaviors, intervention research to improve cognitive and physical functioning

Lifespan Developmental Psychology Laboratory Website: http://www.brandeis.edu/psychology/lachman/index.html

Expertise: Spatial orientation, human movement control, adaptation to unusual force environments

Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Laboratory Website: http://www.brandeis.edu/graybiel/

Expertise: Applied statistics, linear and non-linear multi-level modeling / hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), structural equation modeling (SEM), general & generalized linear modeling, longitudinal data analysis child development: factors (at individual, familial, communal & cultural levels) related to child psychological adjustment (internalizing & externalizing) and school performance

Expertise: Developmental cognitive neuroscience and psychology

Expertise: Visual perception, cognitive processes, particularly visual memory, navigation of complex environments, imitation of seen actions, and age-related changes in cognitive function

Vision Lab Website: http://people.brandeis.edu/~sekuler/

Expertise: Cognitive processes, adolescent development, developmental psychopathology

CoPE Lab Website: http://www.brandeis.edu/psychology/cope-lab/Sign up for office hours- click here

Expertise: The intersection between clinical psychology, depression, gender, development, emotion regulation, specifically: gender and developmental differences in and risks for depression; risk, resiliency and depression prevention; emotion regulation, self-focused attention, rumination and reflection; coping, and development; psychosomatic obstetrics and gynecology and affective disorders (i.e., postpartum depression and Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder)

Expertise: Social psychology, face perception, facial stereotypes (babyfaceness, attractiveness), aging and social perception

Face Perception Lab Website: http://www.brandeis.edu/psychology/zebrowitz/index.html

Expertise: Computer-supported communication, cooperation and collaboration; learning and technology, cognitive engineering and modeling, human computer interaction, communication and discourse, internet and society

Expertise: Consumer judgment and decision-making, affect and emotion, temporal discounting, and health promotion

Expertise: Social-cultural theory, anthropology of aging, gender and sexuality, person and self, medical anthropology, immigrant and transnational communities, understandings of modernity, South Asia, South Asian Americans. US cultural-historical practices of aging

Expertise: Linguistic anthropology, psychological anthropology, religion, ethnicity and race, nationalism, colonialism and post-coloniality, military, East Africa, USA

Expertise: Emotionally demanding tasks at work, including necessary evils and cross-cultural code-switching

Expertise: Philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, cognitive science, history of philosophy

Expertise: Human psychoneuroimmunologal and psychoneuroendocrinologal research, in particular how acute and chronic stress is translated into pathophysiological mechanisms at the level of organs and cells

Health Psychology Laboratory Website: http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/healthpsych/HP254136/index.html

Expertise: Psychoneuroendocrinology, psychoneuroimmunology

Health Psychology Laboratory Website: http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/healthpsych/HP254136/index.html

Expertise: Visual space perception and information processing, monocular visual space perception: size and shape constancy and the metric perceived space

Expertise: Semantics of natural language, syntax, general linguistic theory, evolution of language, language and spatial cognition, consciousness, social cognition, music cognition

Expertise: Clinical psychology and experimental psychopathology, with specific expertise in psychopathy, sexual aggression, and bullying

Expertise: Linguistics. Syntactic theory, historical syntax, metrics, syntactic theory, Icelandic syntax, Korean syntax

Expertise: Perception and sensory processes, experimental psychology, art and illusion

Expertise: Developmental psychology

Expertise: Age-related hearing loss in older adults and its effects on cognitive function, speech comprehension and memory

Memory and Cognition Lab Website: http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/memlab/

Expertise: Comparative psychology, learning theory, sensory physiology