Faculty and Labs

Dr. Philip Marshall

Integrated Cognitive Studies Lab

Research interests: human learning and memory broadly construed, human-animal interactions, and the processing of artistic and basic visual images.

Dr. Miranda Scolari

Selective Attention & Perception Lab

Research Interests: The functions and limitations of the human visual system, and how mechanisms of attention recruit regions of the brain that process visual input in order to facilitate behavioral goals.

Dr. Roman Taraban

Cognition Lab

Research Interests: Text analysis, early reading instruction, learning strategies, categorization, engineering ethics.

Dr. Alice Young

Research Interests: psychopharmacology, discriminative and reinforcing effects of drugs and the roles of receptor-mediated processes in the development of drug tolerance and dependence.

Dr. Sisi Wang

Research Interests: Interaction between visual attention, working memory, long-term memory, and action planning; The neural mechanisms of working memory; Working memory function enhancement; Neural basis of statistical learning; Interaction between emotion, attention, and memory