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College of Arts & Science
Vocal communication and expression of emotion.
Neural basis of visual perception.
Organization and evolution of somatosensory system.
Visual perception, categorization, expertise, object recognition.
Visual Perception and Memory
Cognitive theory and therapy for depression.
Comparative Neuroanatomy
Neural plasticity, brain organization and evolution.
Neurobiological mechanisms that contribute to the etiology of internalizing disorders.
Attention and performance, automaticity, stopping behavior.
Sensory impressions and visual perceptual experience.
Visual attention, functional brain imaging.
Retinal processing and circadian rhythms.
Mechanisms of memory retrieval, spatial memory.
Philosophy of language, mind and epistemology.
Cognitive behavioral theory, assessment, and therapy for anxiety disorders.
Categorization and concepts, computational modeling.
Cognitive and neurobiological bases of major psychiatric disorders.
Cognitive and neural dynamics of the human memory system.
Neural guidance and control of action.
Biological basis of temperament and depression.
Neural bases of human visual perception, face and object recognition, visual attention and awareness.
Visual Attention and Learning
Cognition and cognitive neuroscience.
Neurobiological basis of major psychiatric disorders.
Judgment and decision making.



School of Engineering
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, including functional MRI and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).
Magnetic Resonance Imaging & Statistical Analysis with emphasis on Medical Imaging
Analysis of brain images.
Functional brain imaging.
Intelligent robotics.
Robotics and automous systems.


Law School; Collge of Arts & Science
Law and human behavioral biology.
Criminal law, juvenile justice, law and emotion.
Criminal law and procedure, mental health law, evidence law.


School of Medicine
Imaging Science.
Autism, sensation and perception, multisensory processing, fMRI, diffusion tensor imaging.
Functional imaging for somatosensory system in non-human primates.
Neurobiology of euphoria, MDMA neurotoxicity, monamine influences on information processing, neurobiology of substance.
Mechanisms of basal ganglia and frontal lobe function.
Functional brain imaging.
Organization and function of auditory system.
Psychosis, Neuroimaging, Neuroanatomy.
Auditory perception and hearing loss.
Vascular cognitive aging, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer’s disease.
Neuropsychiatry, clinical pharmacology.
Psychiatry and cognitive disorders.
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences.
Neural degenerative diseases.
Multisensory processing, sensorimotor transformations, perception, dyslexia.


Peabody College
Brain-behavior relations as related to learning and communication in children and adolescents.
Focus on the interface between thinking and seeing.
Perception and memory of space.