Faculty

Faculty

Jeffrey Alberts

Jeffrey Alberts

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
ontogeny of species-typical behavior; maturation of sensory and physiological processes; development of learning and memory

Manuel Baizabal

Manuel Baizabal

Assistant Professor, Biology

Research Interests
functional genomics of mammalian brain development; epigenetic control of neurogenesis and neuronal fate specification; evolution of transcriptional regulation in neural stem cells

Ann-Sophie Barwich

Ann-Sophie Barwich

Assistant Professor, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

Research Interests
Sensory perception and psychology, and neuroscience of olfaction

Randall D. Beer

Randall D. Beer

Provost Professor, Cognitive Science

Provost Professor, School of Informatics and Computing

Research Interests
embodied; situated and dynamical approaches to behavior and cognition; evolutionary robotics; computational neuroscience; theoretical biology

Bennett I. Bertenthal

Bennett I. Bertenthal

James H. Rudy Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
perceptual, motor, and cognitive development; action observation and execution; perception of biological motion; implicit and explicit knowledge

Richard Betzel

Richard Betzel

Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

  • rbetzel@indiana.edu
  • Psychology Building 347

Research Interests
network science, connectome, cognition

Gavin Bidelman

Gavin Bidelman

Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences

Director, Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Lab

Au.D. Program Coordinator

Research Interests
neuroimaging of auditory perception/ cognition in normal and hearing-impaired systems; cognitive audiology; experience-dependent brain plasticity; “cocktail party” listening; auditory aging; individual differences in hearing skills; brainstem and cortical ERPs/EEG; hierarchical neurocomputation; neurobiology of music/language processing

Kathryn Bonnen

Kathryn Bonnen

Assistant Professor of Vision Science, Optometry

Research Interests
perception in complex natural scenes; visual neuroscience; neural information processing; sensorimotor coordination; eye movements; visuomotor control of walking

Heather B. Bradshaw

Heather B. Bradshaw

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Director, Program in Neuroscience

  • hbbradsh@indiana.edu
  • (812) 856-1559
  • Multidisciplinary Science Building II 116

Research Interests
cannabinoid pharmacology; neurobiochemistry; lipidomics

Joshua W. Brown

Joshua W. Brown

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
computational models of brain circuitry involved in cognitive control; test computational model predictions with fMRI; investigate the neural bases of cognitive impairment in psychopathology, especially substance abuse and schizophrenia, using fMRI and computational modeling

Stephen A. Burns

Stephen A. Burns

Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, School of Optometry

Professor, School of Optometry

Research Interests
impact of retinal disease on retinal structure and function; control of blood flow in the retina

Thomas Busey

Thomas Busey

Associate Department Chair, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Professor, Psychological Brain Sciences

Research Interests
visual perception; recognition memory; face recognition EEG analysis of face and object perception; mathematical modeling techniques applied to above domains

T. Rowan Candy

T. Rowan Candy

Professor, Optometry and Vision Science, School of Optometry

Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Research Interests
visual development during infancy and early childhood; ocular motor performance; visual optics; vision; strabismus and amblyopia

C. Sue Carter

C. Sue Carter

Distinguished University Scientist

Rudy Professor Emerita of Biology

Research Interests
social bonding, the role of Oxytocin in mental disorders, traits of monogamy and pair-bond formation

Natasha Chaku

Natasha Chaku

Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

  • nchaku@indiana.edu
  • Psychology Building

Research Interests
adolescence; cognition; puberty; positive development; quantitative methods, biological mechanisms

Hu Cheng

Hu Cheng

Senior Scientist, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Physicist, Imaging Research Facility

Research Interests
artifact reduction for functional MRI; spatial-tempo characteristics of fMRI signal; parallel imaging; ultra-fast imaging techniques

James Craig

James Craig

Professor Emeritus, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
cutaneous pattern perception and communication; psychophysical studies of tactile sensitivity

Jonathon D. Crystal

Jonathon D. Crystal

Provost Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences

  • jcrystal@indiana.edu
  • (812) 856-2246
  • Multidisciplinary Science Building II 224

Research Interests
comparative cognition; episodic memory; metacognition; time perception; circadian rhythms; learning and memory; disorders of memory (e.g., alzheimer's)

Brian D'Onofrio

Brian D'Onofrio

Director, Clinical Training

Sharon Stephens Brehm Endowed Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
developmental psychopathology; behavior genetics; family systems; children

Robert de Ruyter

Robert de Ruyter

Professor, Biophysics

Professor, Neural Science

Research Interests
biophysics, coding, computation and inference in the sensory nervous system

Joseph Farley

Joseph Farley

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

  • farleyj@indiana.edu
  • (812) 855-6828
  • Multidisciplinary Science Building II 218

Research Interests
cellular and molecular mechanisms of learning and memory; neurobiology of behavior; excitable membranes/ion channels; neurobiology of nicotine abuse and addiction; molecular bases of signal transduction; computational models of neuronal excitability

Silvina Ferradal

Silvina Ferradal

Assistant Professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering

  • silferra@iu.edu
  • Luddy Hall (700 N. Woodlawn Ave) 4144

Research Interests
neuroengineering; neuroimaging; biomedical optics; magnetic resonance imaging

Peter Finn

Peter Finn

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
cognitive and motivational processes in substance abuse and dependence; decision-making; working memory; and self-regulatory processes that contribute to behavioral disinhibition and personality-risk for substance abuse

Preston E. Garraghty

Preston E. Garraghty

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
electrophysiological, neuroanatomical, and neurochemical analyses of adult neural plasticity in cortical and subcortical structures, particularly with respect to the contributions of gonadal and stress hormones; neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and behavioral analyses of animal models of autism; secondary interests include sensory system development and comparative neuroanatomy

Eleftherios Garyfallidis

Eleftherios Garyfallidis

Assistant Professor, Intelligent Systems Engineering, School of Informatics and Computing

Founder and Lead Engineer , DIPY

Prof. Garyfallidis is leading a new lab for Neuroengineering at ISE specializing in the developing of new methods and intelligent algorithms for medical imaging and brain mapping with applications to research, clinic and industry.

Research Interests
brain mapping; medical imaging; artificial intelligence; machine learning; scientific visualization; software engineering

Feng Guo

Feng Guo

Assistant Professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering

  • fengguo@iu.edu 043G
  • Simon Hall

Research Interests
bioengineering; cyber-physical systems

Norbert Hajos

Norbert Hajos

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Jack and Linda Gill Chair, Gill Center for Biomolecular Science

Research Interests
cellular neuroscience, system neuroscience, neuroanatomy

Julia Heiman

Julia Heiman

Emerita Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
human sexuality

William P. Hetrick

William P. Hetrick

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
cognitive neuroscience of schizophrenia and related psychological disorders; clinical translational psychopathology approaches to understanding risk factors and "illness" mechanisms using both human and animal models; temporal processing, cerebellar function, and brain micro-state measures of cognitive discoordination; methods utilized in the lab include fMRI, EEG, ERPs, rTMS, EMG, and clinical-neuropsychological assessment.

Andrea Hohmann

Andrea Hohmann

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Linda and Jack Gill Chair, Gill Center for Biomolecular Science

  • hohmanna@indiana.edu
  • (812) 856-0672
  • Multidisciplinary Science Building II 220

Research Interests
mechanisms of pain; novel pain therapies

Jui-Yen Huang

Jui-Yen Huang

Assistant Research Scientist

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Gill Center for Biomolecular Science

  • juiyhuan@iu.edu
  • (812) 855-8645
  • Multidisciplinary Science Building (MSBII) 114

Research Interests
cortical brain circuitry formation; neurobiology; redox biology; neurodegenerative disease

Laura Hurley

Laura Hurley

Professor, Biology

Director, REU Program in Animal Behavior

Research Interests
evolution; ecology; behavior

Eduardo Izquierdo

Eduardo Izquierdo

Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science

Assistant Professor School of Informatics and Computing

Research Interests
computational neuroscience; evolutionary robotics; artificial life; embodied cognition

Karin Harman James

Karin Harman James

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
cognitive neuroscience, brain and behavior, developmental psychology

Thomas W. James

Thomas W. James

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
visual and haptic perception; object recognition; cross-sensory integration; priming and adaptation; functional neuroimaging

Michael Jones

Michael Jones

Department Chair, Psychological and Brain Sciences

W.K. Estes Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
models of memory and language; computational synthesis of neuroimaging and linguistic data; deep learning models; artificial intelligence; statistical methodology for large-scale data

Jorge V. José

Jorge V. José

James H. Rudy Distinguished Professor, Physics

Research Interests
condensed matter physics and neuroscience (theoretical)

Anna Kalinovsky

Anna Kalinovsky

Assistant Research Scientist, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Assistant Research Scientist, Gill Center for Biomolecular Science

  • akalinov@indiana.edu
  • (812) 856-9965
  • Multidisciplinary Science Building 124

Research Interests
role of cannabinoids in proliferation; differentiation and function of cerebellar neurons; effects of developmental exposure to cannabis on cerebellar-regulated behaviors

István Katona

István Katona

Naus Family Chair, Addiction Sciences, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
signaling pathways and brain circuits involved in substance abuse; the endocannabinoid system; synaptic plasticity; super-resolution imaging

Keisuke Kawata

Keisuke Kawata

Assistant Professor, Kinesiology, School of Public Health

  • kkawata@indiana.edu
  • (812) 855-5244
  • School of Public Health Building C215

Research Interests
biomarkers for sport-related concussions

Daniel P. Kennedy

Daniel P. Kennedy

Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Director, Imaging Research Facility

Research Interests
social neuroscience; autism spectrum disorders; social perception; eye tracking; brain connectivity; functional MRI

Ellen D. Ketterson

Ellen D. Ketterson

Distinguished Professor, Biology

Science Advisor and Founding Director, Environmental Resilience Institute

Affiliated with the Program in Neuroscience, the Center for the Integrative

Study of Animal Behavior, and the Cognitive Science Program

Research Interests
behavior; ecology; evolution

David M. Koceja

David M. Koceja

Professor, Kinesiology

Department Chair, Kinesiology

Research Interests
neuromuscular control of human movement

Sachiko Koyama

Sachiko Koyama

Associate Scientist in Anatomy & Cell Biology, Medical Sciences Program

  • sakoyama@indiana.edu
  • (812) 855-3788
  • Biology Building 206, 1001 E. 3rd St.

Research Interests
olfactory communication, olfactory neuroscience; influences of pheromones on social behaviors, adult neurogenesis, sperm activity and spermatogenesis, mammary glands, milk, and the next generation; microscopic analysis of cell movements; history of animals in human culture, history of keeping birds in Japan

Anne Krendl

Anne Krendl

Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
social neuroscience; social cognition and aging; impression formation; stigma; stereotyping and prejudice; stereotype threat; functional MRI

Justin Kumar

Justin Kumar

Professor, Biology

Genome, Cell, and Developmental Biology Section Associate Chair, Biology

Research Interests
Regulation of tissue/organ specification and patterning

Cary Lai

Cary Lai

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Jack and Linda Gill Scholar, Gill Center for Biomolecular Science

  • carylai@indiana.edu
  • (812) 856-4998
  • Multidisciplinary Science Building II 150A

Research Interests
developmental neurobiology; the use of transgenic mouse models to study nervous system function

Jennifer J. Lentz

Jennifer J. Lentz

Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences

Department Chair, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences

  • jjlentz@indiana.edu
  • (812) 855-8945
  • C3130 IU Health Sciences Building, 2631 East Discovery Parkway

Research Interests
auditory perception, tinnitus, hearing loss

Hui-Chen Lu

Hui-Chen Lu

Director, Gill Center for Biomolecular Science

Jack and Linda Gill Chair, Gill Center for Biomolecular Science

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

  • hclu@indiana.edu
  • (812) 856-9663
  • Multidisciplinary Science Building II 122

Research Interests
development of neural circuitry, particularly in the neocortex; activity-dependent remodeling and mis-wiring in autism, dyslexia, schizophrenia, and congenital epilepsy; neuroprotective strategies

Kenneth Mackie

Kenneth Mackie

Jack and Linda Gill Chair, Gill Center for Biomolecular Science

Distinguished Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

  • kmackie@indiana.edu
  • (812) 855-2042
  • Multidisciplinary Science Building II 120

Research Interests
regulation of CB1 cannabinoid receptor signaling; regulation of endocannabinoid production; Role of endocannabinoids in synaptic plasticity; novel cannabinoid receptors

Stephanie Mauthner

Stephanie Mauthner

Assistant Scientist, Tracey Lab, Biology

  • mauthner@indiana.edu
  • (812) 856-2681
  • Multidisciplinary Science Building II 206

Research Interests
genome; cell; developmental biology

Amanda Mejia

Amanda Mejia

Assistant Professor, Statistics

  • afmejia@iu.edu
  • Luddy Center for Artificial Intelligence, 3027F

Research Interests
statistical methods for MRI; functional MRI; population neuroscience; data cleaning; surface-based analysis; neurodegeneration

Armin Moczek

Armin Moczek

Professor, Biology

Research Interests
developmental mechanisms and regulation in eukaryotic systems; evolution genomics and bioinformatics

Ehren Newman

Ehren Newman

Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
systems neuroscience; learning and memory; circuits; high-density electrophysiology; optogenetics; neural rhythms; theta and gamma rhythms; acetylcholine; neuromodulation; neural information processing; modeling of neural circuits

Brian F. O'Donnell

Brian F. O'Donnell

Professor Emeritus, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
event-related potential abnormalities in schizophrenia and related disorders; disturbances of early stage vision in schizophrenia and affective disorders; event-related potentials and risk for alcoholism

Melissa M. Pangelinan

Melissa M. Pangelinan

Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology, School of Public Health

Research Interests
Adapted physical activity/exercise, Community based participatory research, Cognitive-motor development, Developmental disabilities, Neurophysiology, Rural health

David P. Pisoni

David P. Pisoni

Chancellor’s Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Distinguished Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences

Research Interests
psycholinguistics; speech perception; production and synthesis; perceptual development; spoken language comprehension; voice I/O technology; human factors; hearing impairment; cochlear implants; individual differences; multi-modal perception of speech

Nicholas Port

Nicholas Port

Associate Professor, Indiana University School of Optometry

Adjunct Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
saccadic eye movements, sports-related concussion

Rob Potter

Rob Potter

Professor and Director of the Institute for Communication Research

The Media School

Research Interests
audio; music; psychophysiology; social neuroscience; emotion

Anne L. Prieto

Anne L. Prieto

Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Adjunct, Biology

  • aprieto@indiana.edu
  • (812) 855-4642
  • Multidisciplinary Science Building II 222

Research Interests
molecular cellular basis of neuronal plasticity; learning and memory; functions of receptor tyrosine kinases in the central nervous system signal transduction; developmental neurobiology; neuronal and glial differentiation; functional roles of cell adhesion molecules and extracellular matrix proteins in morphogenesis

Aina Puce

Aina Puce

Eleanor Cox Riggs Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
social cognition; nonverbal communication; multisensor processing; functional MRI; electroencephalography; eye tracking; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Patrick Quinn

Patrick Quinn

Adjunct Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Assistant Professor, Applied Health Science

Research Interests
opioid and other substance use; chronic pain, pharmacoepidemiology; behavioral genetics

Ben Ramsden

Ben Ramsden

Director, Undergraduate Neuroscience Teaching Labs

Senior Scientist, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
Electrophysiological Methods (EEG/ERP); Software tools for Neurophysiological analysis; Brain sciences education

George V. Rebec

George V. Rebec

Chancellor's Professor Emeritus, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
mechanisms of action of drugs of abuse; neurochemical correlates of movement and motivation; real-time assessments of neurotransmitter function during behavior; genetic and neurotoxic models of neurodegenerative disease

Kimberly Rosvall

Kimberly Rosvall

Assistant Professor, Biology

Research Interests
evolution of behavior; neuroendocrine mechanisms of behavior; physiological mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity and adaptation; sexual selection; behavioral genomics; behavioral ecology

Dale R. Sengelaub

Dale R. Sengelaub

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Adjunct, Biology

Research Interests
development of the nervous system; plasticity of neural structure and function

Richard Shiffrin

Richard Shiffrin

Distinguished Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Luther Dana Waterman Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
role of intergroup emotions (emotions experienced with respect to one's collective self as a group member) in prejudice and intergroup relations; New conceptualizations of cognition as situated and embodied and their implications for social cognition; Connectionist or neural network models in social psychology; Social cognition in general, particularly the nature of mental representations of persons and groups and their effects on social judgments, including person perception and stereotyping

William P. Shofner

William P. Shofner

Associate Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences

Au.D. Program Coordinator

Director, Auditory Physiology Lab

  • wshofner@indiana.edu
  • (812) 856-1069
  • IU Regional Academic Health Center C2013

Research Interests
auditory nervous system; perceptual attributes of sound

G. Troy Smith

G. Troy Smith

Associate Professor, Biology

Associate Chair for Teaching, Biology

Research Interests
evolution and behavior

Olaf Sporns

Olaf Sporns

Distinguished Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Provost Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Robert H. Shaffer Chair, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
computational and cognitive neuroscience; connectomics; network models of the human brain; brain networks across the computational models of brain dynamics; embodied cognitive science

Brielle Stark

Brielle Stark

Assistant Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences

Core Faculty, Program for Neuroscience

Affiliated Faculty, Cognitive Science Program

Director, Neural Research Lab

Co-Founder, FOQUSAphasia

Research Interests
aphasia, language, brain bases of language, communication, cognitive neuroscience, clinical neuroscience, discourse, gesture, inner speech

Alex Straiker

Alex Straiker

Associate Scientist, Psychological and Brain Sciences

  • straiker@indiana.edu
  • (206) 850-2400
  • Multidisciplinary Science Building II 110

Research Interests
physiology of cannabinoid receptors in neurons; cannabinoids in synaptic transmission; cannabinoids in ocular health

Wei Tang

Wei Tang

Assistant Scientist, Department of Computer Science, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering

Research Interests
neural computational principles of higher cognition using neuroimaging techniques, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electro/magnetoencephalography (EEG/MEG)

Jason Tennessen

Jason Tennessen

Associate Professor, Biology

Director, GCDB Graduate Program

Research Interests
developmental mechanisms and regulation in eukaryotic systems

Zoran Tiganj

Zoran Tiganj

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering

  • ztiganj@iu.edu
  • 3048 Luddy Hall

Research Interests
artificial intelligence, cognitive science and computational neuroscience

Peter Todd

Peter Todd

Director, Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University

Provost Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
cognitive science and social psychology

W. Dan Tracey

W. Dan Tracey

Professor, Biology

Linda and Jack Gill Chair, Genome, Cell & Developmental Biology

  • dtracey@indiana.edu
  • (812) 856-2574
  • Multidisciplinary Science Building II 204

Research Interests
neural circuits, molecular mechanisms of pain and touch, optogenetics, optical recording of neuronal activity

Cara Wellman

Cara Wellman

Director, Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

  • wellmanc@indiana.edu
  • (812) 855-4922
  • Multidisciplinary Science Building II 202

Research Interests
mechanisms of behavior, neuroscience

Meredith West

Meredith West

Professor Emeritus, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Adjunct, Biology

  • mewest@indiana.edu

Research Interests
development of behavior in animals and humans with a particular interest in how learning and species-typical experience affect ontogenetic and/or phylogenetic processes

Krista M. Wisner

Krista M. Wisner

Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
serious mental illness, addiction, stress, interoception, experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical neuroscience, neuroimaging

Robert Withnell

Robert Withnell

Associate Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences

  • rwithnel@indiana.edu
  • (812) 855 9339
  • IU Regional Academic Health Center, 2631 E. Discovery Parkway, 47408 C2012

Research Interests
biophysics of the mammalian ear

Justin Wood

Justin Wood

Associate Professor, Department of Informatics

  • woodjn@indiana.edu
  • Myles Brand Hall 227

Research Interests
bioinformatics and computational biology, animal computer interaction, artificial intelligence, machine learning

Samantha Wood

Samantha Wood

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • sw113@iu.edu
  • Myles Brand Hall 211
Andrew Zelhof

Andrew Zelhof

Associate Professor, Biology

Director, Drosophila Genomics Resource Center

Research Interests
developmental mechanisms and regulation in eukaryotic systems; eukaryotic cell diology; cytoskeleton and signaling evolution

Joshua Ziarek

Joshua Ziarek

Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Adjunct, Biology

Research Interests
deciphering the conformational dynamics of GPCR activation using biophysical, biochemical and cell-based approaches