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- Biology of Brain and Behavior
- Clinical
- Cognitive and Perceptual Sciences
- Developmental
- Social and Personality
Biology of Brain and Behavior
Berridge, Craig
Biological Psychology with a focus on the neural bases of
behavior, particularly that associated with stress, anxiety, and certain
psychiatric disorders. Of primary interest is the role of certain peptides
(corticotropin-releasing factor) and monoaminergic systems (norepinephrine,
dopamine, and serotonin) in this regard. A multi-disciplinary approach
is used to address a number of interrelated questions concerning both basic
properties of these systems, and behavioral and physiological processes
modulated by these systems. Techniques used in my laboratory include: 1)
behavioral assays of stress and anxiety; 2) EEG recordings; 3) extracellular
electrophysiological recordings; 4) in vivo microdialysis and HPLC (high
performance liquidchromotography) with electrochemical detection.
Coe, Christopher
Biological Psychology with a special interest in the relationship
between behavior, endocrine and immune function. Current research is concerned
with the field of psychoimmunology and focuses on how psychological processes
influence immunological development and responsiveness in nonhuman primates
and humans.
Keesey, Richard E.
Biological Psychology with special interests in the physiology
of regulation, motivation and reinforcement. Current research is focused
upon the hypothalamic and endocrine factors underlying the control of food
intake, the control of energy expenditure and the regulation of body weight.
Marler, Catherine
Biological Psychology. My research centers around territorial
aggression and mating behavior and ranges from behavioral ecology studies
to
the neuroendocrine control of behavior. I employ model systems that permit
study of both the mechanisms controlling behavior and the evolution of
behavior. I have worked with species from several taxa, including reptiles,
amphibians and fish. The techniques I have used include 1) measurements
and manipulations of hormones in the field to examine the effects of behavioral
changes on an animal's fitness; 2) manipulations of behavior and energy
intake to examine interactions between energetics and behavior; 3) measurements
of brain neuropeptide levels to examine associations between neuroendocrine
levels and behaviors, and 4) comparisons of behavior between sexual and
clonal or gynogenetic species to examine how differences in the reproductive
patterns influence mate choice.
Snowdon, Charles T.
Biological Psychology: animal communication (vocal and chemical).
Social and reproductive behavior of endangered primates. Ontogeny of behavior.
Primate field studies.
Clinical
Abramson, Lyn
Clinical psychology with special interests in depression,
invulnerability and vulnerability, and information processing about the
self.
Baker, Timothy B.
Clinical psychology with special interests in addiction,
psychopharmacology, assessment, and behavior and cognitive-behavior therapy.
Chapman, Jean
Psychopathology and Research Methodology with special interests
in schizophrenia, high risk for psychosis, laterality, psychometrics, and
multivariate methods.
Curtin, John
Davidson, Richard
- Lab for Affective Science
Clinical psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience with special
interests in the biological substrates of affect, cognition and psychopathology.
Research interests center around hemispheric specialization for emotion
and cognition, dysfunctions of cerebral asymmetry and interhemispheric
interaction associated with affective and anxiety disorders, and the biosocial
bases of early childhood temperament and its relation to later personality
development and psychopathology. Methods include quantitative electroencephalography,
position emission tomography and magnetic resonance imagery.
Gooding, Diane C.
Clinical psychology with special interests in biobehavioral
basis of schizophrenia. Current investigations involve the examination
of ocular motor and neuropsychological test performance in schizophrenic
patients, neurological patient groups, and normal controls. Another line
of research involves the examination of individuals at heightened risk
for schizophrenia, determined on the basis of genetic, psychophysiological,
and/or psychometric factors.
Moffitt, Terrie E.
Clinical psychology; general interest in psychobiological
correlates of human behavioral pathology; special emphasis on antisocial
behavior.
Newman, Joseph P.
Clinical psychology with particular interests in psychopathy;
brain-behavior relationships pertaining to impulsivity and anxiety, and
social-cognitive processes in aggressive behavior.
Pollak, Seth
- Child Emotion Research Lab
Clinical psychology with special interests in developmental
aspects of psychopathology. By what mechanisms may experiences give rise
to psychopathology? How do various forms of psychopathology influence other
aspects of child development? Can psychopathological processes help us
to understand relative contributions of "nature" and "nuruture" to human
development? My current work is on the role that early experience plays
in the development of brain structure and psycholgical functioning. These
studies seek to understand childrens' adaptive and maladaptive behaviors
by exploring the relationships between affect, plasticity of cognitive
systems, and psychopathology.
Cognitive and Perceptual Sciences
Gernsbacher, Morton A.
- Language Comprehension Lab
Cognitive and Perceptual Sciences. Language with special
interest in the general, cognitive processes and mechanisms that underlie
language comprehension using the Structure Building Framework to build
a coherent, mental representation or "structure". (These structure building
processes are accomplished by two mechanisms: enhancement, which boosts
the activation of some representations, and suppression, which dampens
the activation of other representations).
Glenberg, Arthur
Cognitive and Perceptual Sciences, with
special interests in storage and retrieval from memory, and processes of
discourse comprehension.
Jenison, Rick
Perception and Sensory Psychology,
the computational and functional capacity of auditory perception with specialinterests
in theoretical analysis, mathematical modeling, and computer simulation.
Kluender, Keith
- Wisconsin Speech Perception Laboratory
Psycholinguistics, Perception and Sensory
Psychology, Studies the perception of speech and other complex sounds using
behavioral studies with humans and animals, computational, and neurophysiological
methods.
MacDonald, Maryellen C.
- Language and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Postle, Brad
Saffran, Jenny
- Language Learning Lab and Infant Learning Lab
Cognitive and Perceptual Sciences
with special interest in how children acquire their native language. My
research focuses on the kinds of learning abilities required to master
the complexities of language. Three broad issues characterize my work.
One line of research asks what kinds of learning emerge in infancy. A second
line of research probes the biases that shape human learning abilities,
and the relationship between these biases and the structure of human languages.
A thrid issue concerns the extent to which the learning abilities underlying
this process are specifically tailored for language acquisition.
Seidenberg, Mark S.
- Language and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Wightman, Frederic L.
- Hearing Development Research Laboratory
Perception and Sensory psychology with
special interest in auditory perception. Research interests include localization
of sounds and auditory space perception,
consequences of hearing impairment, auditory perception during development
and aging, mechanisms of spectral and
temporal resolution, computer applications.
Developmental
Alibali, Martha
- Cognitive Development and Communication Lab
Goldsmith, Hill
- UW Twin Center
- Wisconsin Twin Project
Developmental psychology with special interest in emotions,
temperament, and self -- what they are, how they are best measured, and
how they develop and become integrated as human personality. Current research
brings together elements of the traditional fields of developmental psychology,
personality, psychometrics, and behavioral genetics by studying infants,
young children, and their families; many of our subjects are twins. Assessment
of infant emotional reactivity, study of the emotional atmosphere of the
home, and measurement of self-concept are special interests.
Hyde, Janet
Developmental psychology with special interest in gender-role
development. Current research focuses include meta-analyses of psychological
gender differences, maternity leave and the mother-infant relationship.
Moore, Colleen
Developmental psychology with interests in cognitive development
(proportional reasoning, mathematical understanding), developmental research
methods, social cognition (attribution, moral judgment), and the psychology
of religion.
Ryff, Carol
Developmental psychology with special interest in life-span
personality development. Current research includes studies on self-perceived
personality change with aging, the relationship between critical life events
and personality change, and cultural variations in conceptions of ideal
development.
Saffran, Jenny
- Language Learning Lab and Infant Learning Lab
Cognitive and Perceptual Sciences
with special interest in how children acquire their native language. My
research focuses on the kinds of learning abilities required to master
the complexities of language. Three broad issues characterize my work.
One line of research asks what kinds of learning emerge in infancy. A second
line of research probes the biases that shape human learning abilities,
and the relationship between these biases and the structure of human languages.
A thrid issue concerns the extent to which the learning abilities underlying
this process are specifically tailored for language acquisition.
Social and Personality
Caspi, Avshalom
Social psychology and Personality with special interests
in personality processes and individual differences, social change, linking
macro and micro theory in social psychology, and the study of role transitions.
His current longitudinal research on the relation between earlier and later
modes of adaptation to novel settings in the life course focuses on the
processes by which continuities in personality are established and maintained.
Devine, Patricia
Social psychology with special interests in stereotyping,
prejudice and intergroup tension; attitudes and attitude change.
Harackiewicz, Judith
Social psychology and Personality with special interests
in human motivation and health psychology. Current research focuses on
achievement motivation, performance evaluation, goal setting, and intrinsic
motivation.
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