FACULTY
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Abdi, Herve
Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-2065 |
GR_4.216
Research Interests: Memory and cognition, quantitative models, neuroimaging, genomics
Ackerman, Robert A.
Associate Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-2346 |
GR_4.805
Research Interests: Narcissism, relationship development, and models for dyadic data.
Assmann, Peter F.
Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-2435 |
GR_4.118
Research Interests: Perception of speech in adverse conditions; acoustic properties of speech in children
Basak, Chandramallika
Associate Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-3724 |
VP_8.15B
Research Interests: Attentional control and working memory, cognitive training strategies, neural and cognitive predictors of complex skill acquisition, and aging
Burton, Michael D.
Assistant Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-7273 |
BSB_10.546
Research Interests: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. How peripheral stimuli communicate to the CNS to elicit complex behaviors: An emphasis on pain, depression, and metabolism.
Campbell, Thomas F.
Professor
[email protected] |
214-905-3001 |
CD_B209
Research Interests: Recovery of speech and language skills after neurological injury. Development of communication technology for individuals with communication disorders.
Chapman, Sandra Bond
Professor
[email protected] |
214-905-3007 |
CBH_3.426
Research Interests: Dr. Chapman’s scientific study elucidates and applies novel approaches to improve brain performance across the lifespan in health, injury and disease.
Dollaghan, Christine A.
Professor
[email protected] |
214-905-3063 |
CD_A128
Research Interests: Predicting, diagnosing, preventing and treating communication disorders in children; specific language impairment; pediatric traumatic brain injury; history and philosophy of science
Dowling, W. Jay
Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-2059 |
GR_4.202
Research Interests: Music cognition, including encoding melodies into memory, tracking motion in tonal space, and the origins of emotional responses to music.
Dussor, Greg
Associate Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-2385 |
BSB_10.538
Research Interests: Pain, with an emphasis on chronic headache disorders such as migraine.
Evans, Julia L.
Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-3105 |
CD_216
Research Interests: The neurobiology of language, implicit learning and working memory deficits in children with specific language impairments
Filbey, Francesca M.
Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-3311 |
CBH_2.720
Research Interests: Neurobiological mechanisms underlying reward-motivation
Gentsch, Joanna K.
Senior Lecturer/Director of Student and Community Engagement
[email protected] |
972-883-4179 |
JO_2.214
Goffman, Lisa A.
Professor
[email protected] |
214-905-3043 |
CD_A113
Research Interests: Integration of language and action into new accounts of developmental language disorders, including specific language impairment, speech sound disorders, and autism.
Gohmert, Andrea
Clinical Assistant Professor
[email protected] |
214-905-3078 |
CD_A261
Research Interests: Vestibular disorders and cochlear implants
Golden, Richard M.
Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-2423 |
GR_4.814
Research Interests: Mathematical analysis and design of statistical machine learning algorithms with applications to modeling problems in neural, behavioral, and social sciences
Griffiths, Scott K.
Clinical Professor
[email protected] |
214-905-3176 |
CD_J221
Research Interests: Evaluation of auditory function and electrophysiology in adults and children, diagnostic audiology, auditory electrophysiology, and the impact of cognitive factors on auditory processing
Hart, John
Professor
[email protected] |
214-905-3231 |
CD_A115
Research Interests: Dr. Hart’s work has focused on the cognitive neuroscience of semantic memory. He has pioneered the development of novel research designs and analytical techniques in EEG and MRI/fMRI aimed at elucidating how the brain stores and retrieves semantic information. He has translated his theoretical work on semantic memory and neuroimaging technique development to the study of patient populations, including Alzheimer’s disease, traumatic brain injury, Herpes Simple encephalitis, West Nile encephalitis, multiple sclerosis, Gulf War Illness, and PTSD patients.
Holub, Shayla C.
Associate Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-4473 |
JO_4.216
Research Interests: Family influences on childhood obesity and health; parental feeding practices and parenting; weight prejudice and body image
Kane, Heidi S.
Assistant Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-4469 |
JO_3.216
Research Interests: The associations between close relationships and health; stress, coping and social support processes in couples
Katz, William F.
Professor
[email protected] |
214-905-3188 |
CD_A122
Research Interests: Acoustic phonetics, speech production, kinematic analyses of speech, visual feedback for speech rehabilitation and second language training
Kennedy, Kristen M.
Associate Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-3739 |
JO_3.308
Research Interests: Normal aging of human brain structure and function (using neuroimaging tools) and their cognitive consequences (using neuropsychological/cognitive assessments); health, lifestyle and genetic modifiers of these age-related changes in brain and cognition.
Kilgard, Michael P.
Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-2339 |
BSB_14.102C
Research Interests: Targeted Neural Plasticity for the treatment of stroke, autism, brain damage, spinal cord injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, tinnitus and pain.
Krawczyk, Daniel C.
Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-3234 |
GR_4.202C
Research Interests: Reasoning, Decision Making, Cognitive Biases, and Executive Functions. Methods include cognitive measures, brain stimulation, and brain imaging. Cognitive interests in context effects on decision making and decision framing effects. Clinical interest in the cognitive effects of traumatic brain injuries.
Kroener, Sven
Associate Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-2039 |
BSB_10.514
Research Interests: Physiology of the prefrontal cortex as it relates to schizophrenia and drug addiction
Le Prell, Colleen G.
Professor
[email protected] |
214-905-3018 |
CD_J216
Research Interests: Hearing Loss Prevention
Lobarinas, Edward
Associate Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-3002 |
CD_J211
Research Interests: Tinnitus, tinnitus treatment and acquired hearing loss. In particular Dr. Lobarinas is interested in the effects of noise-induced hearing loss tinnitus and on functional aspects of hearing such as the ability to hear in background noise.
Maguire, Mandy J.
Associate Professor
[email protected] |
214-905-3163 |
CD_A126
Research Interests: Studying how factors such as family socioeconomic status (SES) and bilingualism influence brain and language development using EEG.
McIntyre Rodriguez, Christa K.
Associate Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-2235 |
BSB_14.510
Research Interests: The effect of stress on memory consolidation with the goal of identifying therapeutics for memory and anxiety disorders
Mills, Candice M.
Associate Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-4475 |
JO_4.208
Research Interests: Cognitive development; social cognition; critical thinking; explanation and understanding; selective trust, science learning.
Moller, Aage R.
Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-4306 |
BSB_14.601
Research Interests: Neural plasticity and its role in tinnitus, hyperacusis, phonophobia, and misophonia, teaching biology of pain, neuroplasticity, intraoperative neurophsysiology
Nelson, Jackie A.
Associate Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-4478 |
JO_4.202
Research Interests: Emotion-related family processes, such as parents’ emotion socialization strategies, children’s social-emotional development, and family stress and conflict.
O'Toole, Alice J.
Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-2486 |
GR_4.214
Research Interests: Face recognition by humans and machines. Neural processing of faces and bodies.
Owen, Margaret T.
Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-6876 |
GR_4.826
Research Interests: Trajectories of self-regulation development and relations to school readiness and achievement in low-income ethnic minority children. Parent-child relationships and other important developmental contexts.
Park, Denise C.
Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-3255 |
VP_8.09
Research Interests: Cognitive neuroscience of aging; preclinical Alzheimer’s disease; effect of an engaged lifestyle on cognition; cultural neuroscience
Park, Jiyoung
Assistant Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-3874 |
JO_4.204
Research Interests: Emotional processing and its consequences on health and well-being; Cultural modulation of emotional processing; Cultural and affective neuroscience
Pinkham, Amy E.
Associate Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-4462 |
GR_4.214
Research Interests: The characteristics, neural basis, and behavioral consequences of social cognitive impairment in schizophrenia.
Ploski, Jonathan E.
Associate Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-2014 |
BSB_10.534
Research Interests: Deciphering the molecular events that must occur to allow an existing memory to be modified via reconsolidation updating; leveraging this information so rational strategies can be developed that will increase the efficacy of reconsolidation blockade based therapies.
Prager, Karen J.
Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-2353 |
GR_2.600
Research Interests: Intimacy development, marital relations, and depression
Price, Theodore J.
Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-4311 |
BSB_14.102G
Research Interests: The molecular mechanisms that cause pain to become chronic; developing therapeutics to target these mechanisms
Rennaker, Robert
Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-3562 |
BSB_14.574
Research Interests: Targeted Plasticity Therapy, medical device development, neurological injury and repair
Rodrigue, Karen M.
Associate Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-3738 |
VP_8.20
Research Interests: Understanding factors that contribute to individual differences in brain and cognitive aging over the lifespan, utilizing neuropsychology assessment, structural and functional MRI and PET imaging techniques
Roeser, Ross J.
Professor
[email protected] |
214-905-3002 |
CD_238
Research Interests: The application of hearing instrument technology to improving communication skills
Rojas, Raul
Associate Professor
[email protected] |
214-905-3162 |
CD_A111
Research Interests: Child language from a longitudinal and processing perspective, specifically bilingual language development in typically developing children and those with language impairments.
Rollins, Pamela R.
Professor
[email protected] |
214-905-3153 |
CD_A124
Research Interests: Evaluating intervention programs and defining learning and social communication processes in individuals with autism spectrum disorders
Rugg, Michael D.
Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-3725 |
VP_8.17
Research Interests: Cognitive neuroscience of human memory; effects of age and neuropathology on episodic memory
Rypma, Bart P.
Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-4472 |
JO_4.302
Research Interests: The cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms of human memory and experimental methodology of functional magnetic resonance aging.
Santrock, John W.
Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-2097 |
GR_4.127
Research Interests: Family processes and children’s socioemotional development.
Sasson, Noah J.
Associate Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-2541 |
GR_4.116
Research Interests: Specifying cognitive processes in autism that underlie difficulties navigating the social world.
Seaman, Kendra L.
Assistant Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-3783 |
VP_8.21
Research Interests: Learning, motivation, and decision making across the adult life span
Small, Steven L.
Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-2355 |
GR_4.102
Research Interests: Investigation of human subjects, particularly in speech and language, and clinical and fundamental neurobiological aspects of mild traumatic brain injuries such as concussions.
Solodkin, Ana J.
Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-8830 |
BSB_13.609
Research Interests: Biomarkers of Neurological disease via Neuroinformatics
Spence, Melanie J.
Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-2206 |
GR_4.532
Research Interests: Young infants’ processing of vocal and facial emotions; infants’ eye-tracking of faces and infant-directed speech
Stillman, Robert D.
Professor
[email protected] |
214-905-3060 |
CD_A102
Research Interests: The assessment and intervention with preverbal children including those with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The work is primarily qualitative and explores sources of diversity in preverbal and early verbal skills.
Swanson, Meghan R.
Assistant Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-2058 |
GR_4.802C
Research Interests: The neurobiology of infant communication, infant-caregiver communication, infant brain and behavior development in autism spectrum disorder and fragile x syndrome
Thibodeau, Linda K.
Professor
[email protected] |
214-905-3108 or 972-883-3463 |
CR_1.534
Research Interests: Assistive technology for persons with hearing loss to reduce communication challenges in noisy environments
Thompson, L. Tres
Associate Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-4933 |
BSB_10.566
Research Interests: Cellular mechanisms of memory consolidation, maintenance and extinction; memory disruption by aging, experience, or metabolic insult; memory restoration by nootropics
Thorn, Catherine A.
Assistant Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-7234 |
BSB_13.331
Research Interests: Synaptic and circuit dynamics underlying basal ganglia dependent motor learning & habit formation; coordination of multiple memory systems
Ulatowska, Hanna K.
Professor
[email protected] |
214-905-3101 |
CD_A130
Research Interests: Neurolinguistics
Warner-Czyz, Andrea D.
Associate Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-3618 |
CR_1.510
Research Interests: Exploring how infants, children, and adolescents with hearing loss who wear cochlear implants learn to communicate with others and how communication affects how they feel about themselves.
Wig, Gagan S.
Assistant Professor
[email protected] |
972-883-3731 |
VP_8.22
Research Interests: Functional brain imaging of human brain networks across the lifespan.
